| Posted by true_infinity |
12/8/2005 9:11 PM | remove |
old subaru?
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| Posted by MattTrakker |
12/16/2005 2:40 AM | remove |
HAHA!!! A Ford EXP!!! Basically a sports version of the Escort in the mid 80s- not many around.
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| Posted by OptFlv |
2/1/2006 2:16 AM | remove |
Yeah, pretty much all of them either look like that now, or have been crushed into a convenient cube. Wheezy little FWD "sports car".
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| Posted by elbowgeek |
4/7/2006 10:15 PM | remove |
Yep, the 80's was a decade of wimpy-arsed cars.
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| Posted by Samurai |
4/9/2006 5:35 AM | remove |
Two-seater (optional rear jumpseat that fit midgets or toddlers)... powered by the puny 1.6L hemi-4 and later then 1.9L HO. Nifty little car for their time. It's too bad that there aren't that many left anymore. They were manufactured from 1983 to 1989. Don't tell anyone, but always wanted one of these to stuff an SHO Shogun V6 into it just for the hell of it. :oP
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| Posted by danzup3x |
8/5/2006 6:08 PM | remove |
ha ha, not like the cars of the 70's were any better
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| Posted by himself240 |
12/5/2006 6:26 AM | remove |
Heh, give me a good $5000 and ill make good as new
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| Posted by Tupsumato |
1/10/2007 11:35 PM | remove |
It's always sad to see cars newer (and better) than the one I currently own abandoned. Makes me feel... poor...
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| Posted by DonnieDarko |
5/10/2007 3:55 PM | remove |
Now why would they abandon that? It clearly only needs a new flux capacitor!
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| Posted by Samurai |
5/16/2007 2:48 PM | remove |
dumbass.. this is a Ford Escort, not a fucking DeLorean.
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| Posted by BravoOrig |
5/21/2007 10:15 AM | remove |
Poor man's time machine I guess.
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| Posted by Samurai |
5/29/2007 4:41 PM | remove |
for the time traveler on a budget?
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| Posted by CDSbigsby |
5/30/2007 2:40 AM | remove |
Nicely done Samurai. I've been extensively combing the UE DB, and I usually know the car abandoned and scroll down to post it only to find you've beaten me to it.
This one, however, I've never seen...I was clueless. The taillight shot looks like a late-80's - early-90's Mustang, though.
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| Posted by Samurai |
5/31/2007 3:21 PM | remove |
the Escort EXP and Lynx LN7 were introduced in late 1983 as a 1984 model. Both were nothing to write home about in the performance categories as they shared the same powerplant/transmission and suspension with the bread and butter variants of the line. However, their styling and theme was what sold them. The 'bubbleback' on the LN7 was later adopted on the Mercury Capri (Mustang clone) and then the LN7 was dropped around 1986. The EXP soldiered on until about 1990 when it was dropped due to the impending redesign... in 1991 the Ford Escort was then built on a Mazda chassis.
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| Posted by nootz |
6/28/2007 10:43 AM | remove |
Samurai, Ford never had HEMI engines, that was Dodge, the only way you'd have a HEMI in a Ford is if you imported it FROM a Dodge. Besides a hemi would destroy a Ford's chassis.
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| Posted by Samurai |
6/28/2007 11:09 AM | remove |
I beg to differ, Nootz... If you look at the head design on the 1.3L (world engine), 1.6L and 1.9L HO/non HO models, the head is classified as a hemispherical combustion chamber. In the service literature of the time, most notable the dealer service manuals, these engines are referred to as 'hemi' engines...
you forget WHY Chrysler called those engines hemi's- it was due to the combustion chamber design. Most engines have a wedge-shaped chamber.
i've been at this game for over 20 years, Nootz... I've worked on them all.
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| Posted by Mutt |
8/4/2007 3:59 PM | remove |
Nootz... this car is unibody in construction, it doesnt have a chassis.
I once welded a 454 into the engine bay of a clapped out Pontiac Acadian (Chevy Shitvette) and managed to get quite a few good launches off the line before the twisting of the body made handling too difficult. The windows all popped after the first launch.
The car in the picture was made from 1982 to 1985. I sadly used to own a 1982 model, but in the Mercury LN7 trim. The LN7 was exacly the same car with different badges and another row of slats on the grill. It was just as enemic as the EXP.
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| Posted by Samurai |
8/6/2007 4:35 AM | remove |
as i said, the EXP soldiered on until 1989.
the LN7 was dropped after 85-86.
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