Well, this pic describes them well.

http://www.mercuryarchive.com/1979to...ColonyPark.jpg

My 89 merc grand marquis sedan was really getting clapped out. with no
more fun. Oh my son still drives it back ad forth to work, but even
he's complainging about it being no fun either. hear and air don't
work, windows don't work, needs alighned. weak springs, leaky trunk, I
could keep going. about it being no fun, but eh. whats the point.

SO! as luck (or fate) would ahve it, I ran across a 1991 Grand Marquis
Colony Park wagon . it's nice (really!) 113,000 mi "Rich Corinthian
leather (no tears) loaded with about every option you could get in
1991. ie it's got all the butt wipes!

I bought it locally for $750.00. I thought that was worth my time.

My wife rolled her eyes when she saw it, but then again, I bought it
for me... not for her. She thinks I should have bougth a late model
truck. I told her, we were going boating, not to a gala outing at the
yacht club.

"Yes ... we're going where fish poop, not to a style show".

No Its obvious, I'm not a slave to fashion, But on the road these
things will get 20-22 mpg, have reasonable performance and the same
drive train as a 1/2 ton pick up, and you can carry more than 3 people
in them.

I don't need a truck, so I dont' have a truck, and If I do need a
truck, I can borrow my dad's any time.

I'm glad I found a decent wagon that wasn't headed for the crusher, or
the Demo Derby.


all I gotta do now is find a reese hitch for it, trailer wiring,a nd
I'm done.