Kind of a dumb question, actually, but I couldn’t resist shooting this foursome.
This Mercury Grand Marquis has been around this neighborhood for years. Given that this is the hip Whiteaker neighborhood, we can be quite certain that the MGM was someone’s hand-me down, or bought cheap with a great helping dose of irony.
No comment.
We can only speculate as to the origins of this MGM. But I bet it didn’t imagine living out its retirement years like this.
I take it that is two driveways for those two houses? Hillsboro also has a bunch of eclectic driveways. Here is a shot from Northeast Portland.
? Not sure, maybe this guy like Chevvies ? .
-Nate
“Retirement years” prompts me to mention something I told my children years ago. If I ever start liking fake convertible tops, then I’ve gone over the edge and it’s time to stick me in the nursing home. Surely a respectable car is embarrassed to be seen looking like that.
Weirdest pairing I ever saw: a Prius and a big-block Corvette sharing a driveway.
Could be a perfect pairing. The big-block Vette gets few miles, just on nice weather fun rides. Few miles, few gallons, not much carbon into the air. The Prius for commuting, long trips, 95% of the driving.
(Unless it’s a couple and they both get driven a lot.)
I’m not sure what it says about my neighborhood, but there are 2 “retired” police cars on this block (I own one of them).
Even though I live in Florida, I don’t know anyone who owns a MGM with any kind of vinyl roof. Yet this very morning I saw a Grand Marquis with a half vinyl roof that I thought was more attractive than my boring/plain vanilla Crown Victoria.
Easy, the blue car as it is really the only one that is a “color” in this automotive B&W world today.
Unfortunately i can’t upload any pictures here(thanks to our totalitarian gov)but there is a very weird guy lives in our neighborhood who owns 3 cars.a late 70s corona,a late model PEUGEOT PARS and a 1962 impala.what is interesting about 62 impala the engine is diesel from 2006 toyota hilux.
A fake convertible top, complete with little snaps, and the door opens right in the middle of it. And an opera window! Makes my teeth hurt.
I miss hardtops. The ’64 Chevy even had a nice crease where a real convertible top has one.
Oooh ~ that’s a sweetie ! .
Remember please, in 1949 the new Chevrolet Coupe was called “Convertible Hard Top” .
I was driving though Rosecrans Hills yesterday and saw a Lincoln Town Car ex taxi (still in yellow livery,decals scraped off) and was thinking about the wild mis mash of cars in my Ghetto driveways .
-Nate
Except the car in the picture is a ’63
The Grand Marquis is not like the others, because it’s RWD and it’s the only one that is body on frame(last of it’s kind)…and not a unibody.
Also, it is an American make…while the other three are Japanese.
Unusual to see cars without hubcaps/wheel covers these days. So many cars use alloys now that this is becoming a very rare occurrence!
As an alternative answer, only one is not a CUV…
I have zero understanding of why someone would do this to an aero Grand Marquis. Vinyl roofs made sense on the previous generation, with their squared-off rooflines–perhaps not everyone’s cup of tea, and certainly not modern, but they didn’t look out of place. My ’91 Crown Vic had the half-vinyl roof customarily found on LX-trim cars, and I actually didn’t mind it. This fake-convertible nonsense with its added puffery would have been a step backwards even on those cars though.
This, on the other hand, just looks absurd. Fake convertible roofs and aircraft-style doors don’t mix. Vinyl roofs and modern rooflines also do not mix. The ersatz opera window and the fake snap strip make it all the worse. The main audience for the GM may have been older folks, but it’s telling that there were no vinyl or fake convertible roof coverings offered from the factory. Whoever got saddled with this dealer-added monstrosity must have been not only old, but going blind as well.
If the car is indeed there for its irony value rather than as a hand-me-down, well then someone has struck hipster gold.