Are Marks cop-magnets?!?

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Are ALL Marks cop-magnets? Or just MINE?

I've only had my 98 silverfrost/light graphite LSC with 30K for a lil over a month now -- but I SWEAR, no matter what time of day or night I fire it up, cop cars just seem to suddenly pop outta NOWHERE, so it's starting to seem like I always have a police escort!

Sheesh, do other Mark owners experience the same situation? I bought my Mark coz it was soooooo understated, compared to all the flashy Vettes & Jags & Porsches & Escalades & Ferraris tooling around downtown Scottsdale. Even though my Mark is completely stock except for a recent dashmat "mod", I've never had a car that was such a total cop-magnet!!!
 
Never been pulled over in my Mark VIII. My other cars, I have been....
 
i don,t get it
i don,t think lincolns get pulled over unless your in a town car
i have been driving a continental for years and havn,t been pulled over but :q:q:q:q with my luck i was pulled over every other month in my crysler and my olds
 
No problems here. Even with the loud exhaust the cops usually pass me by looking for the stang or ricer. Always under the radar. I think the cops are just appreciating the beautiful rear end of the 2nd gen's neon glow.
 
I have only been pulled over 3 times in my Mark:

1) Outta state plates.......go figure they figured I would just pay and be done....boy was that cop WRONG....went to court fought and actually won!

2) Was in a VERY bad mood and when I was doing 80 in a 65 and a cop pulled up behind me, I moved outta his way to get right in behind him and followed him at over 100MPH. He proceded to pull onto the shoulder after about 10 miles of me following him and he pulled me over, BUT he could only read me the riot act because I was following him at HIS speed....no ticket.

3) There was this on-ramp that I had to drive on daily onto the NY State Thruway and everyday I would try to go faster on it to see how fast I could go before it started to lose grip.....well, I was doing 75 on the on-ramp and sped up to almost 100 in a few seconds. The cops cut me a break and only gave me the ticket for the 75 in a 55 because they had to speed up to catch me to over 100 themselves....but did read me the riot act.

BUT, after I customized mine with the wheels and the exhaust I have had cops pull me over JUST to check it out.....especially when I was cruising by with no air in the air ride system by hittin the switch on my kit. That used to really piss me off....was funny, but pissed me off because it was ALWAYS somewhere where someone could see me that knew me and would get my balls busted to no end......oh well..... :Beer
 
well dose that mean they doing the same things with continental
couse we have neons also
but only in 95 to 98 i don,t get it why did they stop that was a sweet hook up with the Neons
but a big hassle when it came to getting the bulbs changed
 
Owned mine 6 years and have never been pulled over, in 6 years I have been pulled over 4 times in my Mustang, had it since 1992. been pulled over a total of 9 times in it and only got 1 ticket,TALK about a cop magnet!
 
The reason the cop don't pull some of us over some times I think its just b/c its a Lincoln,AKA (Grama Car) which I think is bull :q:q:q:q how everyone says its a lincoln its slow till you whip there ass then they STFU but ya. The other day I talked to a cop and he started to talk to me about my Mark and hes all like "Whats that got?" "So does it get up and go or what?" I was just like same as yours almost and joked around all like oh no it slow as hell he just laughed.
But ya I'm with Bryan cops are just appreciative of a beautiful machine. :Beer
 
Hmmmm, so y'all think maybe the local boys' blue-&-white Crown Vics just have a major case of Mark 8 envy?
 
isn,t the 4.6 Dohc in the Mark and the Continental the same engine as a cop car
 
day after i got my license got pulled over in the 90 mark vii i had (seatbelt ticket) argued wit the cop for alil while over how it was a lincoln. He was liek the registration doesnt say mustang, and i said thats becuase it isnt a mustang sir.lol.. with the 93 mark viii got pulled over (recklace and racing on a highway) wasnt the cars fault though.. i've gotten pulled over numorous times in the mark viii but other then the racing incident havent gotten tickets. Never had a problem when it was stock.. but ever since the wheels, exhaust, tint, and especially the cobra hood lol. And then not even 2 weeks ago i was driving my friend justin ( ILLVII) 's 5spd mark vii i got pulled over. We had been workin on it and i was only takin it around the block and i got a ticket for not having my license on me.. 180 dollar fine.
 
so is there anything that can be custmized or any mods i can do to make my car like run better then a cop car someone told me it,s just the way the enggine is tuned
 
1wykdmk8 said:


2) Was in a VERY bad mood and when I was doing 80 in a 65 and a cop pulled up behind me, I moved outta his way to get right in behind him and followed him at over 100MPH. He proceded to pull onto the shoulder after about 10 miles of me following him and he pulled me over, BUT he could only read me the riot act because I was following him at HIS speed....no ticket.

. :Beer
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I did same thing in my Mom's 88 turbo T-bird.
same thing just yelled at me.
I told him I was going the same speed as him.
 
buddylee said:
I did same thing in my Mom's 88 turbo T-bird.
same thing just yelled at me.
I told him I was going the same speed as him.
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I'm confused on what yall did cop passed you going high speeds and you can follow him at the same speed?????
 
Lincolnpimpin said:
I'm confused on what yall did cop passed you going high speeds and you can follow him at the same speed?????
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Ever notice that cops ALWAYS are speeding on the highway....whether they are enroute to an accident or someone being pulled over?? Well, as long as they are not going to the scene of anything and do not have their lights on they have NO more reason to speed than you do, so how are they gonna give you a ticket if they themselves are speeding....BUT, I would not test this. There are some cops that would not really care and still give you a ticket. I have done this several times and NEVER got a ticket.......Knock on wood.......knock, knock, knock :Beer
 
bigdog1279 said:
isn,t the 4.6 Dohc in the Mark and the Continental the same engine as a cop car
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I'm pretty sure all Ford Crown Victorias use the Single Overhead Cam 4.6, as opposed to the Mark VIII's Dual Overhead Cam 4.6.
 
i thout the crow vics where DOHC i know my COtinental is a DOHC
 
I only got one ticket, and that was for a burnout well 2 burnouts, I have straight pipes so it blows out your ear drums at WOT but around town its ok, but I lit them up and roasted my tires for about 250 feet maybe more when my friend was behind me, and then again and a stop sign but this time it wasnt my friend behind it was a cop that had his lights on for about a block. It must of been funning the cop thought I was going to stop at this lit in the middle of no where then I just lit them up like crazy, I tell you its the damn auto dim mirror that did it. But anyways I got pulled over cop said car sounds wicked and its quick too... but he said he has to right a ticket :( 75 dollars gone........night before the drag strip to
 
4.6 DOHC on the COntinental and the Mark is the best engine ever mad
hey if taken car of How many miles you think your engine will live for i think if you take car of this engine you can get 300,000 maybe 400,000 miles easy what you think
 
bigdog1279 said:
4.6 DOHC on the COntinental and the Mark is the best engine ever mad
hey if taken car of How many miles you think your engine will live for i think if you take car of this engine you can get 300,000 maybe 400,000 miles easy what you think
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Thats not alway the case I know for a fact Ford Explore and Volvo engines will last that long IDK bout all the other cars you might need to rebuild them sooner though I think.
 
how long do you think a 4.6 in the continnental will last for
i get my oil changed with Mobil one full synthetic every 3 to 4,000 miles and
get the other stuff flushed out as sugested
i drive about 30,000 miles a year do you think i could get 300,000 or more on my car it,s got 144,000 now
 
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