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It should be fine. I could dd mine but I live in the salt belt, so no dice.

Welcome to the forum. Check out Kansas City Craigslist 1985  Thunderbird , no rust.

I've been daily driving these cars for 14 years. My last one had 350k miles, original engine and tranny. Can't take credit for all of it though, i bought it at 290k miles or so. My current car is a 1986 tbird. I bought it at 131k miles in January and its sitting at 154k miles right now. Have a 200 mile drive planned in it tomorrow.

For the aod, make sure the tv cable bushing is good, sometimes the radiator trans copper fittings leak, but they are a $5-10 thing at any auto parts store.

You can daily these cars, i do pizza delivery in mine right now. You will have issues though. It's a 30 year old car and the parts are now starting to get scarce. Most common wear items are still available and there is a ton of parts compatibility between a bunch of other newer cars. You'll want a back up car incase issues come up, but they can be daily driven.

My car has needed tires, and ignition switch and recently my seat back broke on the drivers chair. But I am really, really hard on my cars. I might do 20 or more deliveries a day, constantly getting in and out of the car, sometimes driving on dirt roads and randomly i drive up to 1000k miles a week freeway in addition to that

I saw your car, and looked VERY carefully at it.  It's still on my list, however, to be honest, I'm really after a car that I can HO-convert and 5 speed swap.  Not saying your car couldn't have that accomplished, however, the lack of the floor console makes that a bit trickier.  This was the issue I ran into with the 30th Anniversary Thunderbirds.  None had floor shift that I found, and I found a bunch of them.  Same with the 20th Anniversary Cougars. 

Don't think for a minute that I don't think you have a great car.  Especially being in the book and all.  Because you DO have a great car. 

Tim

No floor shift, no biggie

I said "a bit trickier" not impossible!  HAHAHAHAH!

Nice ride, by the way!

Tim