Big Block edition 460 in Panther

[Geo]

Can anyone guess the only Panther model that used a Big-Block 460 V8!?

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[Bradley G]

Country squire wagon from early 70's?

[Lowell]

As I understand, Panther did not start as a platform untill 1979. The largest engine was the 351 in the 79 and up. My 74 merc had a 460, but as I understand, 78 and earlier were not panther. Who has more info? My curiosity has been tweeked.

[Bradley G]

I did not know the "Panther name " wasn't used till late 70's. I was trying to remember the last years they used that big block in the crown vic.

[Krytin]

'79 Lincoln had the 460.

[Lowell]

I just got off the phone with a good friend, who worked at Lincioln Land in Florida for many years. According to my friend Gregg, Panther is the Down sized full sized Ford and Mercury in 1979. The Town Car was not on a Panther platform untill 1980, when the Town Car was downsized. The Panther platform never offered the 460ci block. What was offered in 1979 was the 302ci and 351ci blocks. The last year for the 460ci block in theCrown vic, Marquis or Town Car was 1978. The 460ci block was not offered in the 1979 Town car due to CAFE. I believe that this information is correct.

[Krytin]

It wasn't the Town car - Two door Mark! I drove it myself although it might have been a '78!

[Geo]

Hint: it was in 1989

[mmmmmmarauder]

unless it was a heavily modified Panther platform...


just for the record...

the Panther was downsized in 1979 for Ford and Mercury "full-sized" models...
the Lincoln remained the way it SHOULD HAVE BEEN (20 feet long!...actually 233 inches) and was honored with the Diamond Jubilee (1978 460 engine) and the Collector's Series (400 TWO BARREL!...thanks to Jimmy Carter and the tree hugging democrats!)...

In the 1980s, I almost bought a Crown Vic from Canada cause they still used the 351 Windsor (Cleveland?)...others had anemic 302 V-8s

The Panther can't fit a 460/7.5L (wish it could)...although there are several V-10 project cars and police packages if you do a search...

a vote for kerry is a vote for toyota prius


W :flag: '04

[mmmmmmarauder]

which PANTHER had it?



W :flag: '04

[Krytin]

Lincoln remained the way it SHOULD HAVE BEEN (20 feet long!...actually 233 inches) and was honored with the Diamond Jubilee (1978 460 engine)

W :flag: '04
That would be the one I drove! OK - that one wasn't a panther. Which one was it!!??

[Geo]

Hint 2: It was not available to the public (civilians).

This HAS to give it away.

[Smokie]

Can anyone guess the only Panther model that used a Big-Block 460 V8!?

G.....in 1986 when my friend Terry and I installed a special built 460 in his 16' skiboat, we did 95 mph on Lake Tarpon....ooops you meant in a car didn't ya ??? Sorry, it was a great memory of a 460 that literally made us fly.

[Geo]

Smokie: A 460 in a 16'! You should have renamed it the Lake Tarpon Wave.

Hint 3: There had to be at least 2 of these 460 Panthers for reasons of arrival and departure consistencies. They would have also weighed twice the weight of any other comparable 1989 model hence the big-block requirement.

G

[gpfarrell]

Can anyone guess the only Panther model that used a Big-Block 460 V8!?

G


Uh... did the car hang out in Washington D.C.?

[merc]

Reagan’s Presidential limo in 1989. What did I win ?


In 1974, Ford Motor Company supplied another Lincoln Continental to serve as the Presidential parade car, leased for $5,000-a-year. The 1972 model was stretched to 22-feet, had full armor plate, bullet-resistant glass and a 460-cubic-inch, 214-hp V8. In September 1975, President Gerald Ford was about to enter this limousine when Sara Jane Moore fired a deflected shot at him in San Francisco. In 1981, the car rushed a wounded President Ronald Reagan away from an attack by John Hinkley, Jr. in Washington, DC.


January 1989, when a highly-modified 1989 Lincoln Town Car, some 22-feet-long and five-feet-high, entered service at the White House.

[Geo]

Yes gpfarrell is correct as to questioning the location/home of the car.

and Merc too; Hey I never said there would be any prizes. I do have some pics though courtesy of http://www.ils.net/~action/index.html and http://c.barat.free.fr/lincoln/limousine/limo.html

mmmmmmarauder was also correct in believing it had to be a highly modified Panther platform but I wanted to wait for someone to come up with the car and I knew you guys would.

Most of the mods were done by O'Gara, Hess and Eisenhardt which has designed and modified vehicles for the U.S. Government for over 100 years.

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[Mike Poore]

MERC wins again!!!!!:woohoo:

[Lowell]

What makes a Panther? The body or the Chassis? I have found verbal information that the 1989 presidental limo was a Panther body on a 1989 F250 chassis. The F 250 chassis was required to carry the 460 and the additional weight of the armor. I wish to be correct. If I need to be corrected, please do.

[RCSignals]

What makes a Panther? The body or the Chassis? I have found verbal information that the 1989 presidental limo was a Panther body on a 1989 F250 chassis. The F 250 chassis was required to carry the 460 and the additional weight of the armor. I wish to be correct. If I need to be corrected, please do.


the chassis technically makes it a "Panther"

That would make sense the Limo used a F250 frame.
Town Cars for the custom Limo industry still use a special truck chassis.

[Geo]

Yes indeed, in fact the 01 Cadillac DeVille Presidential Limo is based on a Chevrolet Suburban frame which houses AWD and a 502 Chevrolet Big Block.

G

[whd507]

the chassis technically makes it a "Panther"

That would make sense the Limo used a F250 frame.
Town Cars for the custom Limo industry still use a special truck chassis.
while the limo package includes a beefed up frame, it isnt an F-250 frame.

panther frames are pulled, and re-inforcments are added in several areas. police/taxi/livery get some, but incomplete vehicles optioned to become limos/hearses have more. the presidential limo didnt have a dana 60 or rear leafs (or twin I-beam front suspension)