20 degree cold start-up, 1978 Mercury Grand Marquis

This morning I was having all kinds of trouble with ice and the Dodge van...luckily the 1978 Mercury Gran Marquis started up fine after some cranking. This kind of weather is really rare here.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• 20
• degree
• cold
• start-up
• 1978
• Mercury
• Grand
• Marquis
• cranking
• starter
• ice
• icy

[TheTheErdfg]

For your information, ford refered to it as a Mercury Marquis without the grand.

[retrochad]

This is actually a Grand Marquis, it says so, right on it :)

There was a "Marquis" model offered at this time, as you say, but the "Grand Marquis" offered additional luxury items.

[prs0889]

Another great video, I knew it would start up eventually, just needed some time! It is supposed to be real cold where I am next week so I might make another starting video of mine if is below zero.

[retrochad]

That would be cool to see it start up in such cold temperatures!

[rulebritannia1991]

Wow, ice and snow in texas? Who would have guessed. That snow storm just hit here and lucky for me it didn't hit till late last night, early this morning. However, we did earn a snow day!! So there is some benefit. That video equipment looks very interesting! Gotta love Ford! funny enough when I left work at 10pm two days ago, my car started better and faster than some of my coworkers fuel injected ones!!

[retrochad]

That's good you ended up with a day off! I'm unpacking the video equipment right now so I should have a video soon of some of it. This past night I put an electric radiator heater inside the car on a low setting and had no trouble at all with ice this morning...I may try it again tonight.

[RetroVintageItems27]

What does the temp go down to in the south 40 20? In Minnesota in can get very bad below 0.

Retro

[Christianpreaching]

is that a vintage computer at 3:31? You like all the same kind of stuff I do; old cars, old video euipment, old computers

[woodlandcammo27]

I am digging your vids. What would you check for on the positive and negative lead on a wiper or blower motor on a car? Continuity?

[tin701]

that buzzer is horrid

[retroolschool]

Here in Montreal it get REAL COLD like -10 to 20 Celcius in winter. But thanks to El Ninio, this winter was as many of you know, the mildest on record. btw, do you think your Marquis has a special order paint, or is just a very rare two tone combo?

[schindlerman96]

those trees with ice look identical to the ones in kentucky from the 2009 ice storm in janaury

[Rarrin9378]

That's Uncle Buck's car :)

[ford9572]

Does the cruise control still work pretty good?

[michelinman8592]

My dad has the EXACT same Micronta multi-reader. Cool!

[masterlee123]

Why dont you put all that stuff on the van? My dad never gives me shit, he's always upset when he come home from work.