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LEADS on T-Bird/Cougar Stuff For Sale / Black '88 XR7 in Chicago
In case anybody had been following this one for however long it's been listed.......

http://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicledetails.xhtml?zip=74021&endYear=1988&modelCode1=COUGAR&showcaseOwnerId=0&makeCode1=MERC&startYear=1988&firstRecord=0&searchRadius=0&mmt=%5BMERC%5BCOUGAR%5B%5D%5D%5B%5D%5D&listingId=388017330&Log=0


I managed to get the owner and her son to take it to a mech, put on a lift, and shoot some belly photos......*Warning: The following link contains images the viewer may find disturbing.  Viewer discretion is advised.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/chevalier/sets/72157672052379675

I was hoping that maybe it would just be the sheet metal rust on the rockers/doors, but no.  Essentially, this is an engine, trans, and interior donor car, in my opinion.

And the search continues.......
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LEADS on T-Bird/Cougar Stuff For Sale / WOW, see this one?
Quote from: BCA;456497

Interesting car. Makes me wonder the reason why it was not driven. Was it intentional or just a fluke?



This is a pure WAG, but perhaps the person who purchased was killed/otherwise incapacitated, and the family "kept it that way for them"??  I had an uncle up in SD that purchased a brand new self-propelled hay swather one fall back in the late 80's.  Parked it in his barn for the winter, plastic still over the seat, in antition of putting it to work the following year.  That winter, however, as he was raking snow off his roof, he fell off the ladder, and went into a coma.  The rest of the family kept that swather JUST the way he left it, until the day he died, over a decade later.  "Just in case" he came out of it.

Not saying that's what happened here, but, you just never know!
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LEADS on T-Bird/Cougar Stuff For Sale / WOW, see this one?
Yeah, not a HUGE fan of the color, or the year.  I prefer the longer 87-88's, myself. 

Not sure what that plastic piece would be.

And Eric, you're welcome....glad I could dangle forbidden fruit in front of you!  LOL
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LEADS on T-Bird/Cougar Stuff For Sale / 88 XR-7 in PA
I was interested in this car, and in contact with the guy for a bit, and then he dropped off the planet(no contact for weeks).  Wish it was local, or it would be mine already.
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars WANTED / Iso '88 xr7
Quote from: 88Merc50;455383
Hi; good luck..they only made 14,000 88 xr7's and i have one, getting parts or finding one is like trying to find a virgin in a brothel.

ROFLMAO, now that's funny.  Thanks for the good luck wishes, though.