The Ford Crown Victoria is the kind of car that was built to be driven into the ground before being repaired cheaply and easily to get right back to it again. You might delude yourself into thinking there simply aren't any nice Crown Victorias left on the road. If you love Crown Vics as much as we do, that's sure to make you a little sad. Except, that's not even true in the slightest. There's one guy based out of Central New York who appears to have the motherload.
Meet Mike. His collection of warehouses is located in the quaint little town of Corning, New York, and when we tell you he's managed to fill several buildings and the parking lot outside full of low-mileage Crown Vics, we're not even slightly BS-ing you whatsoever. From the first production year for this body style in 1998 through to the last in 2012, Mike's collection represents the best and brightest in Crown Victorias, the last true-to-form, body-on-frame American sedan ever built. The collection has it all, from P71 and P7B Police Interceptors that haven't had their frames straightened multiple times to civilian-grade LX models with ultra-rare digital dashboards.
If you've scoured the internet for hours trying to find the nicest, cleanest Crown Vics out there and came up totally empty-handed, chances are good that it's because Mike beat you to it. From California to Florida, Pennsylvania, and everywhere in between, there's a Crown Vic native to the state in Mike's collection, of which one reasonably-sized garage only accounts for a small fraction of his inventory. Flanking the outside of the warehouse and beside the exterior of every building on Mike's property, Crown Victorias congregate en-masse as if it were a nature documentary, and Mike's the one maintaining the watering hole. From the looks of it, a couple of Dodge Charger Pursuit cars have managed to find their way inside as well.
Now, as for what a collection of this massive caliber could be worth in its entirety, it's pretty tough to judge. You can buy a relatively beat-up Crown Vic for chump change these days or between $2,000 and $10,000, depending on the trim package and the options selected. But once you start delving into this ultra-low-mileage, exquisitely preserved examples with not so much as a dent or a scratch to show, the price can easily shoot through the roof into the $15,000 to $20,000 ballpark and perhaps even more if it's a special edition of some kind.
Could some random automotive appraiser come in and value Mike's collection at well over $1 million? If you ask us, that number seems more and more reasonable when you understand the vast scale of the treasures he has under his roof. Heck, just one of these Crown Vics in our garage would be enough to satiate us for a lifetime. Check out Mike's interview with Limited Edition Motorcars down below.
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