On the second impact, I registered the fact that I was causing damage to a potentially expensive part to replace, but by the third and fourth, I really didn’t care. Fragments of vinyl popped and embedded themselves in my hand and I just kept swinging. I was hot, and for about the 500th time the Mark III was refusing to start. Under nearly every circumstance out there, I deplore causing physical damage to a vehicle. It’s low. Whatever the problem is, the car’s not the culprit. Maybe it’s a loose wire somewhere or some part you should have replaced miles and miles ago, but one thing’s for sure: losing it is only going to make life that much harder at the end of the day. But, you see, last night, I could have cared less about all of that shit. I’ve drug the Mark III around for nearly half of my life and the thing has done nothing but cause me grief in one way or another, which is exactly why I was taking photos of it to put on eBay. When the damn thing refused to start almost 10 miles from home, I went supernova, beating on the dash and speaking in the kind of obscenity-laced tongues that gave the Baptists in the church parking lot I was stopped in something to talk about for a few days. The damage, while not bad, will be a serious pain to repair. The car’s listed here. For the love of god, someone buy the thing.
Posted By: Zach Bowman | 6 Comments »
Tags: 1971 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III Continental Continental Mark III Lincocln Mark III
Maybe you should sit the next play out Champ…
I lost it once on jetta power steering pump that didnt belong to me, then I lost it again when I found out how much a new pump cost.
Sorry to see it going…but I understand.
Good luck, man.
I’ll send a tip over to Bring a Trailer in hopes of getting you some attention.
Thanks, Mad_Science. Part of the frustration is a new set of projects laying around the house. More on those later…
Boy, you sure make it sound tempting. Have you given any thought to selling Amway products?
I completely understand that frustration. I was once trying to install a subframe bushing that simply Would. Not. Go. In. After at least two hours of trying various methods I completely lost it, and grabbed the largest wrench I could find and was about to start randomly wailing on shit when I realized how expensive everything in reach was. I held it together long enough to crawl out from under the car, and proceeded to smash the plastic front grill into tiny pieces, even chasing some of the larger chunks across the garage to smash them into smaller bits.
Once I have a place of my own I’m planning to hang and old hood or fender or something on the side of the garage so when I get that pissed I can smash the shit out of it without damaging anything useful.
Good luck with the Mark III sale.