Here’s my 2003 Cartier. Color is Ivory Parchment, according to the window sticker I found with the manual. Bought it a couple of months ago to replace my 2003 Executive after the engine overheated.
This car is actually something of a “beater,” it’s been “road hard and put up wet,” as they say. You can see the dent at the rear wheel well, and there are a couple more on the passenger side, as well as a ding in the top of the trunk. You should have seen how filthy the wheels where – they couldn’t even be washed clean. It had to polish them with some rubbing compound to get them looking good again.
I got this one for a couple reasons. It was cheap (only $3800). And currently we don’t have a garage. You can’t keep a car clean when it’s always getting bird poop’d and showered with leaves and other debris from trees. I figured I’d wait to find a primo Town Car after we get a house with a garage.
Problem is, the more I drive this thing the more I like it! The Cartier is a huge step up from the Exec – quieter, more nifty options (love that trunk lift), not to mention the rare fog lights. I know they’re useless, but they look really cool.
So now, I’m torn! I may end up just keeping this one and fixing it up. We’ll see how I’m feeling when we get a garage in a few years.
Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt
