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30 Year Old Rusty Parking Brake Shoe with Missing Brake Pad After years of having the parking pedal on my '95 and '96 Crown Vic go straight to the floor and still not hold my car in place, I decided it was finally time to replace the parking brake shoes. I knew it wasn't going to be pretty behind those rotors. Sure enough, after 30 years of use, they were rusty and falling apart. One parking shoe even had the pad completely separated from the bracket. It felt so gratifying t

Keyless Entry Remote for 96 Crown Victoria I haven't had a remote to unlock the doors of my '96 Ford Crown Victoria for years. I'm not sure what happened to the remote when my grandpa first gave me the car. I remember using it, but somehow it got lost. Since then, I've just opened the door and trunk the old-fashioned way—with the key. Five years ago, I decided to lay down some money to get a new one, but the plastic loop on the bottom of the remote broke. Without it, I couldn

My Crown Victoria story stated about 13 years ago. One evening, my grandfather called and offered me his ’96 Crown Vic—for free. “I’m getting too old to drive it,” he said.. Heck yeah. How could I turn down a free car? That call started it all! My 96 Ford Crown Victoria I didn’t know much about Crown Vics at the time. Once, after church services, a friend pulled me aside and asked if I wanted to see his Crown Vic out in the parking lot. We walked outside together and slowly c