Oh Lordy, I now own a Fordy (a Lincoln actually)..

[njsteve]

More tinkering...I bought a set of KYB Excel-G shocks and installed those this afternoon. Used my vintage set of drive-up steel ramps. It's funny: I've held on to those things for 40+years since buying them at Sears back in the late 1970's. They weigh a ton and no car in the last 40 years is tall enough to go up them without damaging the front or rear valance...but a 54-year-old Lincoln sure does!. No problem. I backed it up the ramps and had both rear shocks replaced in about a half hour. The hardest part was avoiding getting covered in the still wet, Woolwax coating on everything. Same deal with the fronts. Unscrewed the top stud nut and the two bottom nuts and they fell right out! Amazing difference in the ride quality over the original worn out rear shocks and Midas fronts shocks that I had as spares from the Firebird (they use the same part number!) This things just floats now. I should rent it out as a drunk-driving simulator. There is no sensation of any road bumps smaller than a sinkhole. Its truly frightening!