mr_mann

Ah, the 255 V8. Edmund's calls it "one of the worst lumps of iron to ever make its way under the hood of a Ford". I did have a 1978 Brown Fairmont wagon with the 3.3L I-6, 3 speed (no lockup torque converter IIRC). I loved it! I've had many cars over the years, both FWD and RWD, and the Fairmont wagon was the best out of all of them in the snow. I never slipped while driving on snow or ice. I eventually had to get rid of it at 248,000 miles, when the thermostat blew, the transmission basically stopt ped working, and it would no longer start. I would have kept it if I didn't have a stupid HOA that doesn't allow unregistered cars. It held a lot of stuff (I believe 80 cubic feet with the seats folded down!) and still got about 23 or 24 mpg even though it didn't have a lock-up torque converter and no overdrive. I loved the plain center-cap hubcaps that it came with; I kept those when I had to get rid of the car. It served me well for a long time (more miles than the distance from here to the moon) and wish I still had it.