hi kit g- got a helluva kick out of your message with all those feline critters. some look like good kind little critters, but some look like killers. do any of yours ever need small beatings? never had a cat but did have a corgi and some dachsunds. they were good mutts and never needed a thrashing especially the corgi. sometimes the dashys came close though. do rememba having to deal with stuffed cats a few times(in dodges and fords). thatlong haired cat looks fierce. don't think you can still get ripple, been replaced by t bird, price was .30 twice. victorias and marquiss mostly had the small 4.6 v8 which I have - a good long lived engine based on the ford 289. some marquis had 5.0 v8.coppers could get that which had a police interceptor badge on the trunk lid. don't think the 351 clevelands or windsors were used in later models. probably back in the 80s when some muscle engines were still being made. 79-80 was the last years I saw a 3d pedal in a Victoria. that model could out run a 240 or 245 on tobacco road. no one could catch mitchum on thunder road though. did scuba dive back in Asbury park in 61. learned how by watching mike nelson. bet you don't recall him. take care be cool and have a good new year. but wait are you unable to get a good glass of drinking water in st. lou? regards oldduke