You know how every car has a story?
I've been looking in the past for a capable replacement for the wife's daily driver(2000 Mercury Sable LS Premium) and this is how I stumbled onto this...
http://www.lincolnsclub.org/forum/user_files/777.jpg
It started last week. The faithful F250 Powerstroke needed tires. No rush, just getting low on tread. I had the purchasing guy at work start shopping. Lo and behold he found some my size and brand on sale at a local vendor, so the next day he had my truck sent down and have the new tires installed. When it returned, I was admiring how much tread they really did have when I suggested we get the front end alignment checked to keep from trashing a new set of tires. No problem, he had an appointment made for the following day and the truck went to a local shop for an alignment. An hour or so later they called and said it couldn't be aligned because of worn ball joints. Our mechanics were swamped and I didn't want to wait and risk being called out of town on assignment with a front end that needed worked on. As a last resort we called the local dealer and had an appointment for the next morning. It took all day but they finally did get the ball joints replaced and the front end aligned.
Meanwhile, back at work, I had my co-worker bring in his Grandpa's '96 Town Car I had been eyeing to buy. Between phone calls, meetings and other real work, I managed to give it a thorough going over at our shop, including a test drive. A late meeting ran over that Friday evening and my truck still sat at the dealer in town. No problem, I took home another truck until I could pick up mine.
The next day, late in the morning, my wife was returning from the mall when she called and I told her to hurry by and pick me up so she could drop me off so I could pick up my truck. No problem, a few minutes later I was at the dealer walking out to the truck from the service department. My wife had stopped and parked next to the truck waiting on me when I knocked on her window glass and she rolled down the window. "Let's take a look around while we're here." I said.
The lot is actually kind of small as FLM dealers go, so it didn't take long. We didn't have long to take either, as we had a wedding to attend that afternoon. But besides a 1997 white 'Cobra' Mustang convertible, all we seen that drew our attention was this...
http://www.lincolnsclub.org/forum/user_files/778.jpg
Long story not quite so long, a while later we had given the salesman our final offer and had already relayed our needing to be at a wedding. We stood outside waiting for him to return from his manager with another counter-offer, when he opened the door and said "What time's the wedding?"
Within another hour the Sable was history and we drove home in this...
http://www.lincolnsclub.org/forum/user_files/779.jpg
I introduce you to the "Blue Jewel".
I've been looking in the past for a capable replacement for the wife's daily driver(2000 Mercury Sable LS Premium) and this is how I stumbled onto this...
http://www.lincolnsclub.org/forum/user_files/777.jpg
It started last week. The faithful F250 Powerstroke needed tires. No rush, just getting low on tread. I had the purchasing guy at work start shopping. Lo and behold he found some my size and brand on sale at a local vendor, so the next day he had my truck sent down and have the new tires installed. When it returned, I was admiring how much tread they really did have when I suggested we get the front end alignment checked to keep from trashing a new set of tires. No problem, he had an appointment made for the following day and the truck went to a local shop for an alignment. An hour or so later they called and said it couldn't be aligned because of worn ball joints. Our mechanics were swamped and I didn't want to wait and risk being called out of town on assignment with a front end that needed worked on. As a last resort we called the local dealer and had an appointment for the next morning. It took all day but they finally did get the ball joints replaced and the front end aligned.
Meanwhile, back at work, I had my co-worker bring in his Grandpa's '96 Town Car I had been eyeing to buy. Between phone calls, meetings and other real work, I managed to give it a thorough going over at our shop, including a test drive. A late meeting ran over that Friday evening and my truck still sat at the dealer in town. No problem, I took home another truck until I could pick up mine.
The next day, late in the morning, my wife was returning from the mall when she called and I told her to hurry by and pick me up so she could drop me off so I could pick up my truck. No problem, a few minutes later I was at the dealer walking out to the truck from the service department. My wife had stopped and parked next to the truck waiting on me when I knocked on her window glass and she rolled down the window. "Let's take a look around while we're here." I said.
The lot is actually kind of small as FLM dealers go, so it didn't take long. We didn't have long to take either, as we had a wedding to attend that afternoon. But besides a 1997 white 'Cobra' Mustang convertible, all we seen that drew our attention was this...
http://www.lincolnsclub.org/forum/user_files/778.jpg
Long story not quite so long, a while later we had given the salesman our final offer and had already relayed our needing to be at a wedding. We stood outside waiting for him to return from his manager with another counter-offer, when he opened the door and said "What time's the wedding?"
Within another hour the Sable was history and we drove home in this...
http://www.lincolnsclub.org/forum/user_files/779.jpg
I introduce you to the "Blue Jewel".
