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09-16-2011, 11:26 AM
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Pour a 40 out, dance a dervish or do whatever your people do to celebrate the dead, because yesterday, the final Ford Crown Victoria (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/crown+victoria/) rolled off the assembly line at St. Thomas Assembly Plant in Ontario, Canada. Workers from the plant have been documenting the wind-down on a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Keep-the-St-thomas-Assembly-Plant-open-and-producing-Vehicles/125597924161225), and you can check out some choice build pictures of the last-ever Vicky in our gallery. The final Crown Victoria was a white model with tan interior and optional rear-seat air conditioning for a customer in Saudi Arabia. With the long-serving Lincoln Town Car (http://www.autoblog.com/lincoln/town+car/) also ending production, only 250 of the plant's roughly 1,200 workers will be kept through December to help decommission the facility.
On sale for roughly 32 years, the Crown Victoria was a mainstay of the Ford (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/) lineup that refused to modernize. Aside from the Lincoln, it was the only rear-wheel-drive, body-on-frame sedan left on sale in America. You could get it with a column-mounted shifter. You could order two bench seats and seat six comfortably (front bench seats in passenger vehicles are now officially dead in America). It rode on the oldest continuously produced platform on sale in America, Ford's tough-as-nails Panther platform that was first used back in 1979. Lastly, it always offered a V8 no matter what gas was going for at the corner station. Click through the jump (http://www.mnfords.com/2011/09/16/last-ford-crown-victoria-build-documented-by-st-thomas-assembly/#continued) to continue reading...Continue reading Last Ford Crown Victoria build documented by St. Thomas Assembly (http://www.autoblog.com/2011/09/16/last-ford-crown-victoria-build-documented-by-st-thomas-assembly/)
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Pour a 40 out, dance a dervish or do whatever your people do to celebrate the dead, because yesterday, the final Ford Crown Victoria (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/crown+victoria/) rolled off the assembly line at St. Thomas Assembly Plant in Ontario, Canada. Workers from the plant have been documenting the wind-down on a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Keep-the-St-thomas-Assembly-Plant-open-and-producing-Vehicles/125597924161225), and you can check out some choice build pictures of the last-ever Vicky in our gallery. The final Crown Victoria was a white model with tan interior and optional rear-seat air conditioning for a customer in Saudi Arabia. With the long-serving Lincoln Town Car (http://www.autoblog.com/lincoln/town+car/) also ending production, only 250 of the plant's roughly 1,200 workers will be kept through December to help decommission the facility.
On sale for roughly 32 years, the Crown Victoria was a mainstay of the Ford (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/) lineup that refused to modernize. Aside from the Lincoln, it was the only rear-wheel-drive, body-on-frame sedan left on sale in America. You could get it with a column-mounted shifter. You could order two bench seats and seat six comfortably (front bench seats in passenger vehicles are now officially dead in America). It rode on the oldest continuously produced platform on sale in America, Ford's tough-as-nails Panther platform that was first used back in 1979. Lastly, it always offered a V8 no matter what gas was going for at the corner station. Click through the jump (http://www.mnfords.com/2011/09/16/last-ford-crown-victoria-build-documented-by-st-thomas-assembly/#continued) to continue reading...Continue reading Last Ford Crown Victoria build documented by St. Thomas Assembly (http://www.autoblog.com/2011/09/16/last-ford-crown-victoria-build-documented-by-st-thomas-assembly/)
Last Ford Crown Victoria build documented by St. Thomas Assembly (http://www.autoblog.com/2011/09/16/last-ford-crown-victoria-build-documented-by-st-thomas-assembly/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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