# It breaks me up how much the guys at me mechanic's love my Crown Vic **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 16, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-breaks-me-up-how-much-the-guys-at-me-mechanics-love-my-crown-vic/592865 "2011-08-16T04:07:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-breaks-me-up-how-much-the-guys-at-me-mechanics-love-my-crown-vic/592865/1 "2011-08-16T04:07:50Z")
Sure, it’s a '90 with 54k miles and it belonged to the shop owner’s MIL so they probably grew up maintaining it, but it’s still cute. Guys, it was for sale for a couple months before I bought it for the price of a SERIOUS brake job on my wife’s van. You had your chance. Um, make that “My mechanic’s.” ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-breaks-me-up-how-much-the-guys-at-me-mechanics-love-my-crown-vic/592865/2 "2011-08-16T05:19:39Z")
Are you Casey from ‘Chuck?’ ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-breaks-me-up-how-much-the-guys-at-me-mechanics-love-my-crown-vic/592865/3 "2011-08-16T05:20:55Z")
Some kid at 7-11 tried to win points with his date by making fun of its godawful paintjob, which includes overspray ON THE FREAKING SIDE MARKER LIGHTS! I laughed, considering such things as protective coloration. And my mechanic is a mechanic. I’d never go to him for bodywork. [http://www.break.com/usercontent/2007/10/Chamelion-XLE-383947](http://www.break.com/usercontent/2007/10/Chamelion-XLE-383947) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-breaks-me-up-how-much-the-guys-at-me-mechanics-love-my-crown-vic/592865/4 "2011-08-16T05:25:51Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > Are you Casey from ‘Chuck?’ If I am then so is every other guy I talk about this car with. My little brother started scouting Craigslist for Mustang IIs with 302s. There is something about a 5-liter V8… Of course, I’m older and 5 liters is laughably small because I was raise on 7 liters and bigger. ETA: Courted my wife in a Lincoln with a 460. She wasn’t impressed, but her mom was. FTR: Greatest car ever. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-breaks-me-up-how-much-the-guys-at-me-mechanics-love-my-crown-vic/592865/5 "2011-08-16T05:35:10Z")
ETAA: Wife thought my infatuation with an old Coupe DeVille with a 500 cu in V8 was unwise in 1990. She was probably right, but it was an ugly shade of green and had this plaid upholstery… Before he died one of Elvis’s gold metalflake Eldos showed up on my dad’s favorite lot. Dad did not see it as a good investment. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-breaks-me-up-how-much-the-guys-at-me-mechanics-love-my-crown-vic/592865/6 "2011-08-16T05:50:33Z")
Are you gonna pick up your brother from prison whilst driving it? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-breaks-me-up-how-much-the-guys-at-me-mechanics-love-my-crown-vic/592865/7 "2011-08-16T06:05:48Z")
No cop engine. No cop suspension. It’s a grandma car, so no. Which suits me because the speedo is about 8mph high and it floats embarrassingly in turns, but I don’t drive it. Driving home on the wrong street after dark I noticed, half a block behind me, a land yacht making a slow turn. “That’s your mother,” I told my daughter, and proceeded to not use my turn signals to piss her off. I drive like an old lady. My wife drives like her grandmother. ETA: Both of which are good. She is a careful and aware driver. I am aware that I drive a car painted Arrest Me Yellow. ETAA: The other day I removed the OTHER summons on my car. Do NOT co-sign on your childrens’ loans.