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Back when I was around 12 years old, my friends Mom had a '77 Continental that looked very much like that, and it was a POS. I remember it had some carb issues and it would backfire under the hood, and when I sat in the backseat I felt like I sunk straight to the bottom.
Ford loved to use those vacuum powered headlight doors too, which almost never seemed to work right.
NBC Nightly News just did a segment on the cars, and also pointed out a young "mourner" wearing a Yankees cap, in the midst of that whole contrived ceremony.
A coworker of my mother had a white on red car like that. It was HUGE and rode like a sofa.
Interesting thought process. Consider the following:
It is very possible that Ford had no idea where these cars ended up. Especially since they are coachbuilder cars. They were sold to the coachbuilder and then coachbuilder sold them to someone else. So you don't really have to "wonder" what they were thinking in Detroit, all they did was sell a car to a legitimate American business.
I'm just curious what you think of the Toyota Hilux (and Nissan Patrols and Mitsubishi Tritons) that are in use in third world countries as tehcnicals for all the dictatorships and terrorist organizations there. Do you share the same disdain for Japan? Or if you're saying how Ford feels about it, I imagine they don't really care. The cars have been debadged.
FYI, every car deal today has the buyer's name run past OFAC to make sure vehicles aren't sold to blacklisted embargoed countries or foreign druglord kingpins.
Interesting thought process on your end, as well, considering your lack of reading comprehension.
Note that I wrote this: "Wonder what they're thinking of in Detroit." And not this: "Wonder what they were thinking in Detroit."
I am well aware of the channels foreign countries of less than excellent international stature utilize to procure Western goods. I know that FoMoCo couldn't have known about it at the time, nor was it their responsibility. And I was not "expressing disdain", obviously. I was merely wondering what Ford thinks today of their erstwhile product being used in such an historic event in such a shadowy nation. Interesting that they picked Ford over Chinese or Soviet models.
Interesting thought process on your end, as well, considering your lack of reading comprehension.
Note that I wrote this: "Wonder what they're thinking of in Detroit." And not this: "Wonder what they were thinking in Detroit."
It seemed like a poorly written question with dubious meaning to me, "of <what> in?" which is why I gave two possible responses.
"Or if you're saying how Ford feels about it, I imagine they don't really care. The cars have been debadged."
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