I wish you the best. By the way, if you get the car, I have some more items to it which may be of interest to you. I was going to sell them but if you get the car, I'll give them as thanks that the car didn't go straight to salvage.
I have the full sized wheel, hub cab, and center cap for the passenger front which is missing in the photo, I have a dealers brochure for the car, I have the book folder thing which had the owners manual, maintenance schedules, and all of that in it. I have all of those books as well. I also have a car bra for it too.
There is currently no bid on the vehicle. It does now have a salvage title not a standard vehicle title, but everything else should be the same as they drove it onto the tow truck and took it there. I'm not sure what you have to do to register to bid on vehicles on CoPart. That's outside of my expertise.
I hope you are able to get it. It is good to see it go to someone who can really use it to keep another one going.
Back in October, my '88 Thunderbird was rear ended while out on a car club function. After the month long process with dealing with the insurance companies, they have decided the vehicle is a total loss.
I have looked at the vehicle and do not think it is something I am able to repair myself so I would be looking to sell the car.
As you can see in the photos, the car was in impeccable condition (minus the accident damage, obviously). I have talked over salvage rights for the car with the insurance company and the price difference has me to believe the car will go to salvage, and I think the car has much more benefit to someone who has the means to rebuild it / needs parts than it just to go to a salvage yard.
The details on the car : An '88 Ford Thunderbird LX with a 232 V6 engine. 98,000 miles. I have owned it for about 3 years, and have kept it maintained on Ford's Fleet Maintenance service guide for the car. (more extensive than the standard service). It has power seats, AM / FM Cassette and Graphic Equalizer, A/C, Power Mirrors, Power Doors. A good amount of new parts on the car (which I could go into if someone needed).
The bad news : The collision was on the passenger rear with the damage I can tell being to the rear bumper, passenger rear fender, rear tailing, rear trunk lid (possibly minor), exhaust system (it sounds a bit louder than before and the tailpipe was on that side so I assume something is misaligned somewhere), and rear unibody (I am attaching the photos from the body shop estimate for you to see. I'm not a body guy so I can't tell you how much would be involved in that outside of the estimate).
The good news : The car is completely driveable. I drove it from the accident site to home, a distance of 97 miles. It made it home under its own power, and minus the louder exhaust, I didn't notice any driveability problems. The interior is incredibly clean with very few blemishes (some cracking on the uppr dashboard is about it), and its has a clear title.
I am only listing the car here because A: I have benefited for some tech information from the forum (even if I was a bit of a lurker and didn't post, I was still learning the car), and B: I would think it would be people from this forum who would appreciate the notification of this vehicle available.
I'm not going to make millions off the car. The importance for me is that it goes to someone who would rebuild it and put it back on the road, or if not that, someone who will take the car for parts to get another car on the road. I've been around vintage vehicles and antique automobile clubs my whole life. I wouldn't want to see it head to a derby, or to salvage, which again is where I think it would go with the insurance company.
So if there is someone out there who would want to bring it back to life or bring another to life with it, please let me know.
The car is located in Mc Henry, ILL; a north-west suburb of Chicago nearing the Wisconsin state line. I will log in frequently to check posts and will answer any questions anyone has.
So first off, thank you everyone who has written about this item in older posts. I have read through them which is how I found this forum.
I have a '88 T-Bird with the 232 V6 in it. I am having the same problem like many where the oil sending unit is flaking out and going from normal PSI to 0 PSI back and forth. I know the oil pressure is good in the vehicle.
I want to replace it but with the actual unit instead of this switch deal. I read the fix using AC Delco Part F1801 (01972321) as a replacement for the stock switch.
From what I have been able to tell, the switch used in the 302 V8 is there same in the 232 V6.
Now I also read that to use the switch on the V8 some sort of adapter needed to be made to extend the sending unit so it could fit into the area. Is this also true on the V6? Also, is there any conversion that has to be done from the size of the bolt going into the engine block? I wouldn't think so since it would be really strange to have two different sending unit bolt sizes when both would be offered in the 302 upper trim lines, but I've seen stranger things.
If I need an adapter for the 232 engine, what does the adaption need to be? What did you all do with your 302 engine? I do not have a big window to work on mine this weekend, so I would rather have the parts to make an extension if I need to and not use then not have it and need it.
