They were there, in abundance, for a whole bunch of years. You probably remember little or remember everything about the performance of the standard issue 2. It did the job… not briskly… but economically. You still see enough of the final examples around that you pay little attention to ones you come across, no matter how battered or beaten it might be, or every so often, one exceptionally well preserved, like this one.
I happen to be one of those people, having once owned a Vulcan 3. It was good-looking, carried the right amount of comfort goodies, moved along well and presented no challenges on the reliability side.
In fact, I even have a soft spot for the early models… remember those? While the sedans underwent major cosmetic changes for , those changes were few on the coupe. New grilles up front, new lights on the back and the new interior inside… other than that, they looked pretty much the same right from the day they hit the dealership lots in They were an instant hit, and Ford sold plenty of them, first year models and beyond. I guarantee this one spent almost its entire life wearing less grime than it does in the picture, as I learned from the owner that it was previously and not surprisingly owned by a little old lady for almost all of its 31 years on the road.
A year-old Ford Tempo. Who ever thought? The advertised 89, km, tallied up ever so slowly on the roads of Salt Spring Island is definitely original as there are likely very few s left with a mint condition interior… and a LEATHER interior at that! Oh, I should note that this is a GLX model… the top trim level offered in … which makes the find even more interesting, especially to those enthusiasts who are now glued to this post and hanging on the little details. Rounding out the options list of this black GLX coupe are dual red body pinstripes, dual sport side mirrors with remotes, delay wipers, cruise control, digital clock and a little bit of fake wood grain around the gauges, though this one only offers a large fuel gauge and speedometer with the rest of the details coming to you by a number of idiot lights.
The wheel covers are throwing me off a bit though, as I am not certain those have always been there. Perhaps the difficulty in first locating and then subsequently the cost of replacing the original TRX tires on this car they could only have been replaced once with 89, km on the clock was just too great, resulting in a downgrade to a much simpler and cheaper set of factory Tempo boots.
