This week’s Manufacturing Monday's featured product is our control arm bumper -- Part #RP18301. Order one today for your Checker Marathon and feel the difference!
Checker Motors, the Manufacturer of Checker Marathons, produced Marathons for over two decades. The popular 4-door and 5-door sedans were originally marketed as passenger cars for consumers, but due to the model's lack of yearly changes to the styling, it is best known as the iconic New York City taxicab during the 1960s-1970s. Marathons are also frequently used on movie sets to depict the Soviet-made Chaika 13 (GAZ 13) vehicles. Films such as Gorky Park and the original Mission: Impossible television series use the vehicle to depict the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries.
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Manufacturing Monday's Featured Product Control Arm Bumpers for Checker Marathons
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Manufacturing Monday's Featured Product: Front Track Bar Bushings
This week’s Manufacturing Monday's featured product is our Front Track Bar Bushings - Part#: RP22442. Order a set today and feel the difference!
Track bars keep your vehicle laterally stable and manageable while the suspension does its job. But it's a tough task, especially handling the greater mass of work vehicles. The bar's points of connection are critical, and that's where bushings take a battering. The constant push, pull and strain while under way, especially over rough surfaces, takes its toll, as do the ordinary factors of age and time that compromise the strength and performance of the original materials used.
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Manufacturing Monday's Featured Product: Adjustable Drag Links
This week’s Manufacturing Mondays featured product is our adjustable drag links - Part#: RP29132. Order one today for your motorhome and feel the difference!
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Manufacturing Monday's Featured Product Tie Rod Assembly
This week’s Manufacturing Monday's featured product is our tie rod assembly - Part#: RP29493. Order one today for your van and feel the difference!
Ford had an immediate hit on its hands with the first-generation of the E100 series vans and trucks, responding to similar offerings from GM and Volkswagen. The versatile and economical Falcon-based first generation, however, was soon succeeded by the bigger, beefed-up second generation of more conventional vans beginning in 1968.
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Manufacturing Monday's Featured Product: Rack & Pinion Mount Bushings
This week’s Manufacturing Monday's featured product is our rack and pinion mount bushings - Part#: RP15896. Order a set today and feel the difference!
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Manufacturing Monday's Featured Product: Control Arm Shaft Kit
This week’s Manufacturing Monday's featured product is our control arm shaft kit - Part#: RP15347. Order a set today and feel the difference!
When people think of 1960s-era Fords the original "1964 1/2" Mustang may come to mind. But the company turned out a variety of memorable and collectible models under all three of its nameplates in those years and through the early '70s, including the Galaxie 500 - Torino and Ranch Wagon, and the Lincoln Mark III and IV.
Manufacturing Monday's Featured Product: Control Arm Bumpers
This week’s Manufacturing Monday's featured product is our polyurethane control arm bumpers - Part#: RP15945. Order a set today and feel the difference!
Control arm bumpers are typically out of sight and out of mind, but they are critical to your car's suspension system. Unfortunately, in addition to these bumpers being worn down from the impact of slamming into a pothole, rut or other road hazard, they are also subject to significant deterioration over time due to a range of all-too-common factors, including exposure to oil, grease and even sunlight.
Proudly manufactured in the USA, Rare Parts polyurethane control arm bumpers, use a higher durometer material than the OE rubber bumper and are also resistant to oils, grease, and UV light that damage other bumpers.
Stop worrying about your control arm smashing into your frame and knocking the wheels out of alignment, and start worrying about the destination of your next road trip.
Fits These Models:
Ford Truck: Ranchero ‘72-‘79 Ford: Country Sedan thru 1991 & Squire ‘65-‘74 Ford: Custom 500 ‘65-‘77 Ford: Custom ‘65-‘72 Ford: Elite ‘75-‘76 Ford: Galaxie & Galaxie 500 ‘65-‘74 Ford: Ltd ‘65-‘78 & Country Squire '75-'78 Ford: Ltd Ii ‘77-‘79 Ford: Ranch Wagon ‘65-‘74 Ford: Thunderbird ‘67-‘79 Ford: Torino & Gran Torino ‘72-‘76 Lincoln: Continental ‘73-‘79 Lincoln: Mark Iv ‘72-‘76 Lincoln: Mark V ‘77-‘79 Ford Truck: Ranchero ‘72-‘79 Ford: Country Sedan thru 1991 & Squire ‘65-‘74 Ford: Custom 500 ‘65-‘77 Ford: Custom ‘65-‘72 Ford: Elite ‘75-‘76 Ford: Galaxie & Galaxie 500 ‘65-‘74 Ford: Ltd ‘65-‘78 & Country Squire '75-'78 Ford: Ltd Ii ‘77-‘79 Ford: Ranch Wagon ‘65-‘74 Ford: Thunderbird ‘67-‘79 Ford: Torino & Gran Torino ‘72-‘76 Ford: Elite ‘75-‘76 |
Ford: Ltd ‘65-‘78 & Country Squire '75-'78 Ford: Ltd Ii ‘77-‘79 Ford: Ranch Wagon ‘65-‘74 Ford: Thunderbird ‘67-‘79 Ford: Torino & Gran Torino ‘72-‘76 Ford: Elite ‘75-‘76 Ford: Galaxie & Galaxie 500 ‘65-‘74 Ford: Ltd ‘65-‘78 & Country Squire '75-'78 Ford: Ltd Ii ‘77-‘79 Ford: Ranch Wagon ‘65-‘74 Ford: Thunderbird ‘67-‘79 Ford: Torino & Gran Torino ‘72-‘76 Lincoln: Continental ‘73-‘79 Lincoln: Mark Iv ‘72-‘76 Lincoln: Mark V ‘77-‘79 Mercury: Brougham 1967 Mercury: Colony Park ‘65-‘74 Mercury: Commuter ‘65-‘68 Mercury: Cougar ‘74-‘79 Mercury: Grand Marquis ‘75-‘78 Mercury: Marauder ‘65-‘70 Mercury: Marquis ‘67-‘78 Mercury: Montclair ‘65-‘68 Mercury: Montego ‘72-‘76 Mercury: Monterey ‘65-‘74 Mercury: Park Lane ‘65-‘68 |
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Steering and suspension systems are the mechanisms responsible for helping your vehicle handle whatever situation is presented on the trail, as well as keeping you both safe and comfortable. It can be the difference between bottoming out or having the ride of your life.