It belongs in a museum.

"This has to be one of the strangest cars we've seen somebody collect." :D

I've been called worse...
 
Wayne Lincoln had a NOS MkVIII in their showroom for sale back in 2018 which I looked at before having second thoughts because they wouldn't work on my 1998 that had >100K miles on I had brought it in, for evaluation for alignment or brakes, as it would pull hard to one side (either left or right, no pattern to when it would do that) when hard braking from highway speeds. The man in charge of the service area said that the floor was rusted so bad, that they didn't even want to put it on the lift, and said that they suggest I 'trade it in' and buy the NOS one if I really liked the car. I had already had it up on a lift before that, with only slight rust noted to the chassis, so I supposed it was a move to just get me to buy the NOS one they had in the showroom. It was the same red with tan inteior as the one shown here, only with just the mileage which a new car would have. they said the owner of the dealership had the car since new, and had decided to sell it. My response? 'Well, if you can't work on mine, it's pretty obvious to me that you won't be able to work on a different MkVIII either'. Then I took my ikeys, paid for the estimate, and walked out. Went to another independent garage, and they said all they had to do was set up the brakes correctly, and fixed the problem.
So much for the 'stealer'ships.
 
Wayne Lincoln had a NOS MkVIII in their showroom for sale back in 2018 which I looked at before having second thoughts ...

You have far more restraint than I do. 🤭

Over the years, I've been to dealerships 'just looking' and have told more than one salesman "if you had one of these (pointing to my Mark VIII), I'd gladly but it!"

Yeah, if I'd have been you in 2018, that Mark VIII in the showroom would've been mine. 😉

By the way, do you still have your '98?
 
Yes, I still have it. I had sold my Porsche 928 because I didn't want to have to do all my own work anymore, and there simply aren't a whole lot of 928 mechanics around (arthritis just makes kneeling and crawling around too painful, so, no more of that for me). The nearest American vehicles to it were T birds and Marks, so I found the nicest one I could, and grabbed it. Mine was garaged all of it's life, but living in Rhode Island, wound up with undercarriage rust. Since I'm now in Arizona, no more rust, no more of that problem. And I have local garages which will work on my American grand tourer whenever I want, and since it shares so many mechanical parts with other Ford products, parts aren't hard to pay for either.
Love my mark. Not as perfect as the 928, but close enough. Plus, in 1993 the mark took the Bonneville title away from the '87 928 with a 181mph top speed.
 
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