1978 ford ltd II commercial

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[luso2kx]

Mid size? A mid sized aircraft carrier maybe.

[IstvanN1961]

@senseit2007 Actually todays "mid-size" cars are a joke. They are small compacts at best. Back then a full-size car was FULL SIZE.

[abc1236948]

@socalltd The 1977 wagon was still based from the old Gran Torino body style which dates back from 1972 and the newer LTD II Front Nose End was just grafted into the wagon's older body style.

[socalltd]

@abc1236948 there was a one year only 77 wagon in the LTDII body style and was discontinued for the new 78 fairmont.to bad the ranchero did not go past 79 

[abc1236948]

The 2 Door (which was actually a no frills variation of the 1977-79 first downsized Thunderbird coupe body style which replaced the larger pre-1978 LTD based model and the smoothly and thinly disguised Gran Torino aka Torino Elite) and the 4 Door versions may have gained new body styles much different than the Gran Torino, but the Station Wagon and the Ranchero Pick-Up Car variation were still carryovers of the older body styles of the 1972-76 Gran Torino though.

[abc1236948]

@socalltd Well said so the Ford Motor Company really has the know how on recycling old chassis and incorporating them into the updated versions many decades later. Cars with similar chassis whether its perimeter type separate body & frame arrangement or unitized body construction may share certain chassis parts together which would otherwise be constructed differently like "apples & oranges". The '12 Ford Crown Victoria with '70s technology was the last of its kind except pick-ups/SUV

[socalltd]

@abc1236948 @abc1236948 i know that from 69. LTD, t-bird, marquis, conti/town car and mark's are the same full size. the 72 torino went from a unitized falcon to a perimeter frame using full size rear link and suspension parts. ford knows what it has done and been successful in revising and modifying its 40 year old frame, intermediate or panther

[abc1236948]

@socalltd (continuation of the paragraph) body and full ladder type frame construction similar to GM Cars of the same class sizes but I believe they use a different chassis/platform though because its like saying that the Pinto based Mustang II also used the same chassis as the Maverick/Falcon based Granada. Sure these 2 smaller Ford Cars have similar Unit Body Construction, but they are different as well. If anything, the Panther Platform was a modified version of the Torino chassis

[abc1236948]

@socalltd It is entirely possible that the original larger Ford LTDs prior to the Panther Platform versions (which had a 32 year run just ending this past September) had its chassis shared with the identical size Ford Thunderbirds which were built prior to 1976. In addition remember that the Lincoln large cars of those era also used the stretched versions of the LTD/Marquis chassis as well. Sure that the LTD used the similar chassis of the Gran Torino because they both have separate

[socalltd]

@abc1236948 i am willing to think ford made things easy in 72 with a new torino/cougar/motego, later elite and went along a similar chassis for all intermediate and full size Ford, Lincoln and mercury. they just trimmed a lot of models for downsize later on. you have me thinking now because the panther is 114/117 in wheelbase like a 72 torino and big Fords and L/M were 121/126 in pre '78.

[socalltd]

@abc1236948 the sharing was used in that situation like the GM models you mentioned

i can say downsized thunderbirds were on the same assembly line with the 77 and 78 LTD. ford had a plant in Los Angeles, where my 74 LTD was made, that only t-birds and full sized ford models were produced there untill the panther downsized came and closed right after

[abc1236948]

@socalltd I was surprise to hear that the 1972 Ford Gran Torino chassis was based on a shortened Ford LTD chassis, they may be similar but they are not the same chassis though. If the platform sharing was common, then the Ford Thunderbird prior to downsizing in 1977 also used the pre 1978 Ford LTD chassis as well.