So, like, centiliters?
Yeah I was thinking it is a conversion like that.
I think I’ve only seen a Marathon like that once before. A friend hired it for her wedding arrival and getaway car. I think it is fabulous.
Austin-Healey
'53 Morgan Plus 4
'51 Packard
Pontiac GTO
DeTomaso Pantera
'61 Metropolitan (They had officially been their own make for three years by then.)
'57 Packard
'37 Packard
'40 Packard
'33 Packard
Windshield card says customized '88 Austin Mini.
'34 Packard
AMC Concord
Windshield card got washed out but it’s a '37 Pontiac.
Another '61 Metropolitan.
'56 Packard Clipper (or just “Clipper” depending on when it rolled off the assembly line).
'53 Packard Clipper
'32 Packard
GAZ Volga
'72 Citroën SM
More images of these cars can be found here (but for some reason they’re out of order):
The AMC Concord makes the post.
I was going to say, “One of these things is not like the others.”
Which would make it from the couple of years when Packards were essentially badge-engineered Studebakers, before they finally killed the brand.
Never heard of it, but google tells me it’s a 71(?) Toyota Corona.
Interestingly, some of those earlier ones look a whole lot like that Checker Marathon.
The Corona was Toyota’s first successful car in the US (They tried selling the Crown here in the late 1950s, but it sold very poorly). It was sold here from 1966 until the early 1980s, and was the mid-level car in Toyota’s lineup, equivalent to the Camry today. In fact it was replaced by the Camry here circa 1983, although the Corona continued to be sold in other countries.
Fun fact: Toyota names all their mainstream sedans “Crown”.
Corona = Latin for crown.
Corolla = Latin for small crown.
Camry = An anglicized version of the Japanese word for crown
Crown = No explanation needed.
ETA: Yours actually looks like a Corona Mark II, which was Toyota’s top of the line model at the time. It was technically a different vehicle from the Corona, although the name is very confusing.
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Could be, but I think it’s more likely to have a big block that displaces 507 cubic inches.
OK, this probably is not the best place to put this, but I thought you folks might want to see this photo I took tonight of my Bronco under the Milky Way, in Durango:
It’s a very cool picture!
Thanks!
It took a bunch of tries until I got the Bronco lighting balanced with the Milky Way. I used a small flashlight and waved it over the Bronco for a few seconds. Total exposure was 10 seconds, with my new 14mm f/2.4 Rokinon.
Great pic. I was wondering how you got the Bronco so highlighted.
It was so dark that I couldn’t see to focus or compose the picture. I just had to take multiple images until I got the composition I liked. The lens is manual focus, and I used “Live View” to zoom in on a star and get it as sharp as I could.
The lens was highly rated, and I bought it used (with my fingers crossed). I’m happy with it - even wide open, it has minimal coma. Better than my Nikon 20mm f/2, which has been my favorite Milky Way lens up to this point.
Nice picture and rig, @beowulff . Thanks for sharing it! Ford made a winner when they brought back the Bronco. In the SFBA CA, I see many on the road here. I was especially happy to see one in a manual transmission.
My 2016 Grand Cherokee diesel has only 150,000 miles (exactly, as of today) and I plan to get at least 500,000 out of ‘er so she’s barely broken in. But when she’s done I’ll give the Bronco serious consideration.
PFA
I have the manual.
It’s fun, but to be perfectly honest, the auto is probably better for off-road.
Done a lot with both types of transmissions. In uphill starts you’re going to burning that clutch a bit.
Something interesting is automatics are better than manual for plowing snow. Or so I’ve been told. A plow truck goes forward/reverse constantly. I guess that’s a little rough on the clutch. (I’m talking personal pickup truck plows)
I’ve also been told that the give in the slushbox transmission helps dissipate the impacts as the plow hits the snowbanks.