The crisis in question is that these Fords (well, one Mercury, but still...) have all lost the ability to run. Every farm has a dead vehicle graveyard and this is my father-in-law's. He's no longer with us, he's in a graveyard down the road from this one. It's sacriligious to think this, but he was a Ford guy and I have think he wouldn't have minded being buried next to his iron.
