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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars FOR SALE / SOLD 1988 Thunderbird Sport SOLD
I'd like to get this sold before the new year so to help that I'm lowering the price to $1800. I'd like to sell this to a fellow enthusiast, so I'll wait a bit before posting a lower price on my local forums.

Any questions, I edited my first post & put the lower $ and my phone # in that post. Thanks
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars FOR SALE / SOLD 1988 Thunderbird Sport SOLD
I'll try to get some time to start troubleshooting the cruise control, so if someone chooses to fly in and drive it back it'll be a little easier drive. As a bonus after this coming weekend you should stay a day or two extra and enjoy some world class skiing or snowboarding (It's not called the greatest snow on Earth for nothing!) - I'll even buy you a lift ticket. Or with Haystack's offer you could come in the spring for skiing + drive down to the Moab area to visit Arches National Park. See you can tell the other half your taking her on vacation and "oh by the way I've got to pick up this car" :D
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars FOR SALE / SOLD 1988 Thunderbird Sport SOLD
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I'm half tempted to buy your car and swap in my drivetrain and suspension.....


That would be great. Like most of us I had not big plans but some good solid updates in mind, you know like stroker motor, T5 (maybe), 8.8 rear with some suspension mods, and probably a set of those 17" Pony R wheels. But if you guys saw my student loan bill you'd faint.... I know I do each month :shoothead + a 3 year old and one on the way just not a good time.
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars FOR SALE / SOLD 1988 Thunderbird Sport SOLD
SOLD - Thanks everyone

Well as much as I don't want to it's time to sell my TBird. The good news is the wife is due in March, the bad news is I don't want to deal with having to load two car seats in the back, etc, and having 3 vehicles is not an option right now. So up for sale it goes. I looked for quite awhile for this car, since I wanted a rust free Sport with just about every option I could get.

I picked this car up about two years ago from southern Arizona. I've got the original window sticker, and the 1988 Thunderbird brochure. Since I bought it I haven't done very much to it, just a new windshield, sequential tail lights, 3G alternator upgrade with Taurus fan (done correctly with 70 amp relays etc.) I kept the original parts if you would like to put it back to stock. I've done a throttle body cleaning, fuel injector service, spark plug change and it passed emissions easily. I also have some extra parts, like another buttstuffog dash, digital dash, automatic temp controller, just stuff I found at the local yard that looked nice & thought I may one day need or experiment with. Also have a 3:73 ring gear & pinion with a new install kit for a 8.8 rear axle along with a set of twin piston caliper 5 lug complete spindle setups for the front. I'm sure there's more.

The car runs great and has nice cold A/C. For the bad, the dash is cracked, the cruise control isn't working but I haven't really looked at it yet other than to know it is hooked up in the left fender well, and the previous owner repainted the roof, it looks okay but at times under certain light you can tell it isn't a perfect color match. Also I have a B&M shifter that was installed, but I put a factory shifter back in it, but am missing the factory cable bracket down on the tranny so I'm using the B&M cable so the gear indicator doesn't line up.

The car has 140K miles and is located in Salt Lake City asking $2100. Please feel free to ask or PM any questions, Thanks, Scott

Any questions please call 801-230-9417







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Lounge / Sad news
I can't imagine how hard it must be loosing not just your father, but a really close friend. At least your fortunate enough to be able to have had and enjoyed a great relationship with your father and will be able to look back and remember those good times.
My condolences
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Lounge / Pictures of my new car!
Samantha, very nice looking cat. Good find. Grats on the Ipod also.
So whats your first mod thats going to make it "your" car?
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Lounge / anyone in phoenix az?
ArizonaTC is somewhere close to there I think, but haven't seen him on for a bit

And Phoenix to central Utah is around 7 hours I do believe unless ya peg that 140 speedo...
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User Rides / Dad I want to drive...
So while I was putting on the electric fan, underdrive pulleys, and fixing the power antenna, my 9 month old decided she wanted to take the Sport for a spin around the block. :burnout: :D
All I could think of was the song "fun fun fun till my daddy takes my TBird away"





Don't pay any attention to the dirt or ugly hardware and zipties - all will be fixed soon with the final battery relocate project



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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars FOR SALE / Spal Dual 11" Fan
I was going to use this, but decided to go with a different setup. I bought it used from a friend who only had it a few months. The fans work great. Any questions on them, please ask.
Asking $130.00 plus shipping. Shipped from Salt Lake City Utah, but not sure how much it would be.

Website info SpalUSA.com click on highperformance fans, the dual 11". Spec sheet in PDF on their website if you can't read my picture of it.

Thought I'd offer to folks here first, instead of Ebay so I don't get questions like "will this fit my most awesome ricer project with quad turbos making a gazillion horsepower that runs 16's because I can't get any traction" :D









Thanks
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Audio & Other Aftermarket Electronics / Installing a DVD In Dash Stereo Need Help on Mod
Just grab a couple of the center dash trim pieces from the salvage yard and practice on them. You can make a really nice factory looking piece to fit that radio no problem. Mp3car is good website, the12volt.com is good (go to forums) I'm sure there are others. It's actually fairly easy, so don't be intimidated by cutting up the trim piece and epoxying, fiberglassing and painting it to fit that radio, the results are worth it. Remember to take pics along the way and post them up :D
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Lounge / dream cars?!?!
Mine would be a 68 Cougar XR7 done up by Troy Trepanier (Rad Rides by Troy) along the same lines as he did Joe Rogans Sick Fish. Of course I'd have to work on it every day with his team, as I can't see it being my dream car without turning some wrenches on it to make it happen.

You can find pics of the Sick Fish project here and here