I new that would get your attention!

A couple of weeks ago I was approached by someone who used to work for me and was in the need of money. He offered me his grandmother's 1970 Lincoln (now his) for 500.00 bucks if I could get the money for him right away! I did so and purchased the car. This car has 52,000 original mi. on it. Being a Ct. car all of it's life it does have some rust in the rear quarter's and some surface rust spot's in various places on the car. The car has been garaged and not registered since 1996. It has a 460 c.i., 365 H.P. motor which runs very well.

My problem. Well not really a problem. Should I strip and part out this car? Then save the motor for the next project? Or should I sell this car to someone who has a real interest in these things? I do have a 460 out of a '78 Thunderbird set aside for next project. Is this older high compression motor that much better than a newer one? The value as a whole car, well EBAY prices, for a car in this shape are between 1000.00 and 3000.00 dollars. This car probably being in the lower end of that price range.

I'm curious to see what some of you guy's would do with this car. Last weekend I almost started pulling the car apart but had second thoughts. Help! It might go this weekend.

 

If you've got a project in need of a 460, why not take the high hp motor out and put the 78 in? Sure that would make for a lot of work, but it will cost more to get similar number from the 78 than the time to swap them. Also see if there are any parts you could keep, but replace with poorer parts. That's what I'd do at least.

Trevor

 

Is the body too bad to restore? 1970 Lincolns are cool. If you can't restore it, take the engine out of it a part it out and keep it for your project. Don't waste your time putting the '78 460 in it. I had a '76 460. The thing had apprx 220 hp. Sell the '78 460 with the Lincoln parts. The '70 460 rocks in comparison.

Good luck!

 

Are you going to rebuild the 78 motor b4 you put it in the next project? If so sell the 70 Lincoln as a whole car, buy yourself a set of DOVE head's for the 78 motor with proceed's of said sale of Lincoln. Punch that 78 motor out, put in a cam, roller rocker's and the DOVE head's and with the right carb and ignition setup it should run just about as good as the 70 motor.