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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars FOR SALE / SOLD! - 1988 Cougar XR7 for Sale
SOLD!




    I am selling my 1988 XR7. The car was featured in Cool Cats "Cat of the Month" in November 2001 and some of you may have seen it around the SE Michigan area. The car is perfect for a restoration or a restoration/modification project (what I had planned originally).

    Here goes:

    -Black/Charcoal.
    -Dealer "Gold Package" option.
    -Dealer trunk luggage rack option.
    -Rear windows are tinted.
    -Car originally from Florida, light rust in a couple of spots after 6 michigan winters. NO HOLES!
    -Original fenders and quarter panels!
    -Gold/Silver "Turbine" wheels with proper center caps.
    -Approx. 255,000 mostly highway miles.
    -Full Digital Cluster conversion - FULLY operational! (buttstuffog cluster included... will not seperate from vehicle).
    -3.55 gear w/ rebuilt differential and new axles.
    -Poly bushing on rear control arms, steering rack, front sway bar links, trans cross member and strut plates.
    -Energy Suspension Trans Mount.
    -ChuckW engine mounts.
    -BBK Cold Air Intake.
    -BBK headders and H-Pipe, Flowmaster 40 series lers.
    -Nearly clear headlamps with Silver Star Ultra bulbs.
    -200 watt (2 x 100W) driving lights.
    -Power windows, locks, drivers seat, cruise, antenna, mirrors - all working!
    -FRP Timing Chain.
    -MSD Blaster Coil, cap and rotor. Accell spiral core wires.
    -Light Truck AOD w/ Trickflow Aluminum Trans Pan.
    -Alarm w/ keyless entry (instant trigger also tied to dome light circuit).
    -Falken Ziex ZE512 tires, less then 5,000 miles (235/60-15)
    -11 inch front brake conversion w/ '03 Cobra control arms, mustang spindles, calipers, hoses and carbon-metallic pads.
    -1993 Cobra brake booster.
    -140 Amp G3 conversion.
    -Class II hitch w/ wiring.
    -Newer battery, HD/SC fan and clutch assembly (basically the police/F-150 setup), water pump (new), radiator, thermostat (new), fuel pressure regulator, A.I.R. pump and a couple of other things I can't remember at the moment.
    -R-134a conversion - blows COLD!!!!
    -Pioneer "Premier" series DEH-P480MP head unit (plays MP3/WMA CD-R/CD-RW disks) w/ Pioneer speakers all around (2khz filters on dash speakers).
    -Sherwood 4x50 "Tri-Power" amp w/ 1/2 farad cap (powers rear deck and sub).
    -Polk MOMO 8" sub in non-ported truck box w/ metal grill (pushes like a 12").
    -Bunch of extra/spare parts.
    -Will include most parts removed for conversions and/or upgrades.

    -Pictures link at bottom!

    SOLD!

    More Hi-Res pics here: http://www.mhoehn.us/images/cougar/
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars FOR SALE / 1988 XR7 For Sale
Thanks for the positive comments so far. I wish I could give it the tlc it needs, but I am not able to do more than the basics. I would really like the car to go to someone who appreciates and loves these cars than someone who will run it into the s heap.

Sure, the Michigan winters have roughed it up a bit from it's condition when we moved from Florida. However, for it's age, mileage and use as a daily driver, I think it would be hard to find a cat this good with original paint/body work; especially one that ended up in the northern states. (I could be wrong of course)
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars FOR SALE / 1988 XR7 For Sale
Quote from: jcassity;321304
price is still "make offer"?
 I cant see 2500 although the upgrades offset the cons.  a very good looking car btw, a little tlc and is golden!


Was changed to "Make Offer" yesterday when it was decided to sell. I was looking for $2500 initially, but I admit even that was a bit unrealistic despite being able to "wait and see".

If the car is coming back from NC, we should be in WV on the 18th.
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars FOR SALE / 1988 XR7 For Sale
The car may be again for sale in the next few weeks. Medical issues have made it increasingly difficult to keep and enjoy the car. I will make a new post with pertinent information and many pictures when I re-list it for sale.
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General Computer Forum / Getting a new computer
Quote from: Thunder Chicken;236312
I remember paying $400 for a 6.3GB hard drive... and $400 for a 17" monitor... and $300 for a SCSI 4X CD burner... and another $100 for the SCSI card so I could run the burner... and my father paying $600 for a 1MB ATI RAGE video card  (as an add-on option for the new $2000 12-MHz 80286 he was buying when I was in high school - the ATI Rage was necessary to have color, otherwise it would've been Hercules monochrome graphics).

I used to build my own computers as well, but new retail machines are sooooooo much cheaper now. Unless you're building a super-high-end gaming machine that requires a custom build it's almost impossible to beat the likes of Dell, Gateway, Compaq, and the other retail machines. I mean, $350 for a dual-core Intel machine with lightscribe DVD burner, 3GB RAM and half a terabyte of storage? And it's not even a Celeron? I haven't built my own machine for years - the Dell was the first store-bought machine and heralded the end of building my own.

I'll play with Vista for a bit, just to try it out. I'd love to try the Mac Hack, but this is an office machine so I can't really screw around with it too much. I'll be keeping the old Dell for parts, so some day I might build another computer out of it and try the Mac OS...


Sounds like you got a decent deal!

You may want to check with Dell on those capacitors. There was a very large batch of them that were leaking/blowing several years back on many brands of mainboards. Something about a "stolen/copied" electrolite formula. I had my Abit KT7-R and a couple of other brand boards that lost the caps repaired free of charge.

I remember the old hardware too. It was expensive comparatively. I do have an oldie in top shape though. It is an Epson FX1040 line printer (tractor feed & wide carriage). Only good for gathering dust now but you would be hard pressed find a new line printer (yes, they still sell them) of the "desktop" classification with similar features.