Hello all from the Netherlands, My new wagon brought me to this club. After two station wagons, a 1973 Ford LTD Country Squire Brougham and a 1977 Mercury Marquis Colony Park, both with a 400, I owned a Cadillac Sedan de Ville of 1971. But the station wagon fever grew again. So I searched for a nice new ride. I even took a trip all the way to Germany where one was for sale. Finally i found a decent one, it came from Pennsylvania early 2010 to the Netherlands. It has now, as all my US cars did a new Impco LPG fuel system built in. It needs some detailing but is otherwise a very nice daily driver that gets a lot of thumbs up! Best regards, Coen
Coen, Let me be the 1st to say Howdy. Sounds like a real find considering most Long Roofs never leave the US unless their on the way to China for recycle. Hope you enjoy the site. NOW LETZ SEE SOME PIX
Thanks for the pictures in the gallery. Fine looking colour combination, like my Fairmont Squire. Nice. Welcome.
Welcome Coen to the forum. We're familiar with you Netherlands guys doing the LPG conversions, but I'm not sure if we've had the low-down on just mow much the conversion saves you in fuel costs. Can you enlighten us with the cost of the conversion and the resulting savings? Impco does conversions over here, of course, but they mostly get purchased by big fleet users - short-range trucking companies, some taxi fleets, buses, etc..... Again, Welcome! Marshall
Welcome to the SWF, Coen I can't seem to figure out how RDW (our DMV here) does the sequence of the letters and numbers on the license plates .... there should be some sort of logic to it.... or was it imported through Germany maybe??
Hi, The RDW over here that gives out the license plates, say they, do it alphabetically. Th older cars (pre 1978) are allowed to drive the old style dark blue plates with white lettering. After that you have to drive the reflecting yellow ones. US cars always have the possibilaty to get the smaller version. Before I wanted to import it my Ford I phoned the RDW to see if I could get a nice license plate, NOT possible. But some times... not long a go an Aston Martin passed me with the plate AM-19-56, or something close to that.... hmmmm funny..... But I am lucky with my 66-YB-66 plate. All the cars imported now are in the YB letters. They are numbering them up now. Kind regards, Coen
Hello, LPG systems are offered in various prices ranges. Mine was installed when I bought the car through an US car importer. The ask between 1000 - 1500 euro for a straight forward installing job. The guy who did mine got his time and installed it very neat. A 90 liter single tank where the children seats could have been. I still have some hidden space left there. And the LPG filling nozzle is behind the gascap door. The LPG prices here are aroundnd 58 cts a liter, compared to 150 for 95 and 160 for 98. Another benefit of driving a car 25 years or older is that we dont have to pay any road taxes anymore. And the LPG raod tax is 3 times higher then a normal car. Although it is a cleaner fuel....??? How enviromental can you be as government. Diesel is also taxed higher over here then a normal fuel car. Best regards, Coen
My 73 Riv, imported in 2004 has YA; the 72 EW, imported in 2006 has AM; the 71 Electra imported (oct) 2009 has AM So I figure they're out of AM and now continue with YB where they left YA around 2005.
Hi Rob, It beats me too how they hand out the registrations. But I dont mind the one I got, it has the route 66 feeling in it: 66-YB-66 Best regards, Coen
That's what I was thinking; 66 the Mother Road... I will be travelling that one in August from IL to CA in my 68 Wildcat :banana::banana:
Hello, Finding you had already been done a while ago, I just had to wait untill I found a nice wagon to member us in And about your quote regarding to vacations, when I had my first LTD QS I went my doughters to the south of France. During the trip we had to turn the radio stations regularly. And during the weeks near Antibes/Nice we picked up a nice station and soon had our own french holiday song. A year later the song was released in the Netherlands and we had our holiday feelings back again! That is the fun of travelling without CD's or a MP3 player Reagrds, Coen
