This car is amazing, I’ll tell you that right now to get it over with. Without full wheel covers it almost has the look of a lower trim level Custom 500, but this is a 1977 Ford LTD and it was bought new by the father-in-law of the seller who has it posted here on craigslist in Roseville, Minnesota. They’re asking $11,400, here is the original listing, and thanks to Pat L. for sending in this tip!
This car is four miles from me so let me know if there are any serious folks out there and I’ll see if I can take a peek at it. It appears to be a jaw-droppingly-nice car with super low miles and looks like it’s in almost perfect condition. The highest recent price paid for a 1977 LTD was back in February and that was a two-door loaded and gorgeous LTD Brougham with a red interior and it sold for $12,500. This may be a tough sell at the seller’s asking price, sadly. It’s probably worth that, but convincing anyone to pay that much for a fairly basic car with four doors, black rims, dog dish caps, and no power accessories may be tough.
The second-generation Ford LTD was made from 1968 for the 1969 model year until the end of 1978 and at a hair under 19 feet long, this car is a scant 3″ shorter than the longest Cadillac Escalade ESV. Make mine this ’77 LTD and give me the $80,000 in change, please.
As expected, the interior appears to be as nice or nicer (if that’s possible) than the exterior. The beautiful Redondo fabric seats look like new both front and rear and as a base LTD, there doesn’t appear to be any power accessories, but there is air-conditioning and I’m guessing a perfect steering wheel under that wheel wrap. This car only has 36,000 miles on it so it hasn’t been driven too much over the decades.
The engine is amazingly clean, isn’t it?! And to even show an engine photo in a craigslist ad, the seller gets a gold star, well done! This is Ford’s 351-cu.in. OHV V8, which would have had 150 horsepower and 291 lb-ft of torque when new. This car just sounds like the nicest one left on the planet, it runs perfectly, looks perfect, has no rust, has low miles, and has had only one owner who loved and took immaculate care of it. It doesn’t get any better than this, does it?
I agree Scotty, this LTD looks to be in terrific shape. Obviously someone’s pride and joy for decades. The hubcaps do give it a low-rent look, I might be tempted to acquire a set of model-year-correct wheel covers to spruce it up a bit. This generation of LTD was my driver’s education car, but that is a story for another day.
Agreed, Bob. It’s an LTD, deserves full covers. Would change everything.
i like the car.
I’d do the same thing. Keep the steering wheel wrap though, it’s a period-correct accessory.
4 barrel Autolite carburetor, nice dual exhaust, proper trim on the wheels… 😎 🚗
Neat car in beautiful condition, and I’m glad it’s not the lawnmower 302 engine that my 78 had, but a 4 door full size car, even in that condition, I can’t see anyone paying that much. I hope I’m wrong, and that it finds a good home where it’s preserved and enjoyed for what it is.
5 digit odometer so you have to take the seller at their word or evaluate it in person and decide if you want to spend $11,400 on it but if you’re into these big land yachts there is a Red 76 model at Union gospel mission motors in Spokane Washington for $3995 its really clean and the odometer reads 43,+++ so you save $7400 bucks +/- and still get a nice cruiser
It’s clean up to behind the rear doors, where the road salt has eaten the bottoms of the rear 1/4 panels. There is a lot of rust bubbling in the pictures.
The pictures are taken outside of an auto repair facility, as opposed to somebody’s driveway. This always gets my BS meter swinging to the red zone.
I came home from college in 1980, stone broke. Got my old job back, and a “friend” of the family offered me a “low mileage” ’75 El Strippo LTD for $500. Paid him the cash and the trans crapped out a week later. The a/c a month after that. Then the ball joints, etc. Not to mention the cheap metal was just about to blossom into rust holes. A year and a thousand $$ later, I traded the car in on a ’78 Grand Prix. Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Christine D. in Chicago would do just about anything for this car if it were green. And when I say anything…I mean ANYTHING 😊
So what’s Christine look like? This car has a huge back seat… sssccchhhwwwiiinnnngggg!!!
I concur. Back seat in those cars were YYYYUUUUUGGGGEEEE!
Hell, I’ll bet Christine could sit between me and my buddy Glen and “go skiing” with plenty of room left for a 12’er of Old Style Tallboys
True and the odometer has probably rolled at least once but it’s still $7,000 cheaper, and Washington doesn’t salt the roads because the snow never stays that long its only in the last 12+/- years they started using this brine stuff as a anti ice to help when they need to do snow removal.
I was offered this model back in 1980 as a friend of mine passed on and he left it to me. I talked with several of his family and a single mom (cousin I think) wanted it. I sold it to her for $500 so she could keep it in the family. (I’m a Chevy guy)
Had a white 77 ltd 4 door company car. Loaded trunk and back seat for calling on retail stores. Came out from an A&P and the car was gone. There was an almost identical ltd 2 rows over. Thought I was losing my mind, but that wasn’t my car as it was completely empty. My keys worked in it. I called the police, they did a tag check and found the other car owner lived one block away. The cop drove me to the house and there was my company car right in the little driveway. The elderly woman, all of 4’10, answered the door and said she just got back from the A&P. The cop asked if that was her car in the driveway with all the stuff in the trunk and back seat. She said yes, hadn’t even noticed all the stuff in it. The cop drove her back to her car.
⬆️ Never happened ⬆️
Wouldn’t be so sure, if you think it didn’t happen because the keys wouldn’t have worked. There weren’t that many different key combinations at the time.
I believe it. There was a made-for-TV movie sometime in the early ’80s involving the same thing happening with Chevys.
Keys weren’t an issue – both non/AC cars were parked with windows down in summer and I stopped just short of trying to turn the ignition – but I did get in and sit behind the wheel of someone else’s green ’95-96 Toyota Tercel circa 2002. Key in, left foot down – where did my clutch pedal go? – look down and to my right to see the PRNDL selector, up to see my car parked one space away. Key out, out of car fast, into the one next to it.
It can happen. I had a Chevy, my friend has a Pontiac. My key worked in his Ponty, his key worked in my Chevy
This $6,000 car rides smooth there’s no denying that.
The seller has lowered their asking price to $9,700.