All the photos are "gone" for the time being, but I have a thread where I redid my seats with TMI covers. Doesn't solve for the back seats and not exactly cheap, but they turned out nice.
Those seats look great. If mine were not perfect I would go that route for a color change. I am not an original type guy though, but understand others like to keep it that way.
Thanks. I requested fabric swatches from TMI and the color/material was a dead on match to my door panels. TMI has all the Mustang colors and materials ... luckily for me, charcoal was used on the SVO Mustangs. I bought the front covers and then spec'd them to be charcoal on the bolsters and black suede down the centers. I just ordered additional material by the yard and then had an upholstery shop recover the back seat to match.
All the photos are "gone" for the time being, but I have a thread where I redid my seats with TMI covers. Doesn't solve for the back seats and not exactly cheap, but they turned out nice.
Found a Craigslist ad the other day for a guy parting out an '85 Turbo Coupe, somewhat close by, and decided to check it out. I just missed out on getting a spare turbo front bumper, but I was able to pull almost all of the charcoal interior. The front seats were already gone, but I took just about everything else that wasn't Tbird specific (since I have a Cougar). I'm sure others have similar "color" problems, but '85 Charcoal is getting to be a tough interior to find (at least for me). The color was used in '83 and '84, but those are a different overall interior from '85 up ... in '86 the color switched to the darker "Smoke" color ... close to charcoal, but definitely darker when you put two panels up against one another. I usually run into the lighter gray for the '85 up interiors. Anyways ... made my day to find this ... even more so at $60 for everything (ignore the exhaust in the photo and the dog's pink ape ... lol). The dash was a bear to get out with all the wiring in a pretty optioned out car, but amazingly enough, it was un-cracked ... I'm afraid to even look at it the wrong way because I can tell it's brittle in the usual spots.
I like the stance. How'd did it ride on the Carlisle trip? Must have missed you ... walked through the T-birds on Saturday around 1PM and didn't see you, but then saw the car later in the day when I went through again. We bailed in the early evening to beat the rain since we were camping.
I dig it! Hoping to re-do my front end over the fall/winter this year ... we'll see what type of motivation I have when the time come though. Nice job.
I was actually pretty surprised that I didn't see your car there. Would have been the perfect time to take home a first place trophy...and all of the other trophies!
For as close as I live, I actually don't show the car there all that often (or at all for that matter)... probably 6 times in the last 20 years or so. I bet I didn't go for a solid 10 years. Got a little re-energized the year before the the 50th anniversary show in 2017. I've gotten a few first places at Carlisle over the years, but it's always a shoot and definitely not why I do it. The classes are a little screwy, but when it's based on turnout, it's kind of hard or argue. It's just cool to have someone show some interest in the car ... makes the all the time I have sunk into it feel a little more worthwhile I suppose. Don't get me wrong, it's always nice to take home an award, but I'd rather not place and have 20 cars there then place and only have 3 cars there.
It looks good! Going to have enough time to get it inspected?
Thank you. Got it inspected on Friday, so should be good to go. Went to a little cruise-in pancake breakfast that a neighbor invited me to on Saturday morning. Got a little highway time. Have an annoying exhaust leak I have to solve, but otherwise things seem to be good.
"DONE!" ... still have some small odds and ends to finish up, but everything is back on the car. Installed the driver's side tailpipe, tightened up all the exhaust fittings, and installed my new rear sway bar. Also got my door molding put back on. Getting my state inspection done next.
Thanks. Have followed some of your posts and I take it you worked there? I have the Kenny Brown adjustable upper and lower rear arms as well as their subframe connectors ... all were purchased around 15-20 years ago now ... hard to believe ...
I worked there until '01.
I'm the reason those parts ever existed.
Many thanks! Yeah, they kinda disappeared as an available item not too long after I bought them ... Probably got them in '99 or '00. With all the newer non-fox/non-SN95 Mustangs, a lot of this niche stuff has gone by the wayside.
That's my plan/hope. Didn't go last year, well, at least not with the car ... just walked through the swap on Friday. Tentatively scheduled to get the car inspected tomorrow and then gotta get some miles on her. Hope there is some good Fox T-bird/Cougar turnout. I didn't see any Cougars last year and maybe only 2 or 3 non-turbo birds. TC's usually show in decent numbers.
I may have missed it, what tailpipes are those? Stinger?
They are actually custom bent stainless steel pipes that I had done at a local hot rod shop years ago. Same principle as several of the Fox LX 5.0 Mustang style ones, just longer in length. I have aluminum tubing exiting the lers and going over the rear axles. From there, the stainless steel extensions bolt on and run the rest of the length of the car.
I just noticed the T-Bird-specific KB stuff. Haven't seen much of that stuff in the wild.
Car looks great!
Thanks. Have followed some of your posts and I take it you worked there? I have the Kenny Brown adjustable upper and lower rear arms as well as their subframe connectors ... all were purchased around 15-20 years ago now ... hard to believe ...
