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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Taylor Bennett Jr." data-source="post: 221519" data-attributes="member: 2740">My aunt had a cream-colored Mark V when I was a kid, likely the same year as Jock's - first time I ever encountered power windows and seats, which I considered the height of fanciness.  Wish we'd somehow kept it in the family.My dad briefly had a brown 1976 El Dorado convertible as the result of some oddball business deal where the other guy couldn't come up with the cash.  He wasn't a car guy, though, and thought it was way too impractical to keep (no room in the garage, etc.).  We put it on ebay and within a day a guy was heading to Ohio from NYC on the Amtrak to snap it up.  It was glorious, like riding on an ocean liner.  You had to turn the wheel like 8 times to make a 90 degree turn!  I bet it would go for at least 2-3x what he got for it in the early 2000s, maybe even more if we fixed it up to excellent condition.</blockquote>