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1986 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe 5,580 ORIGINAL MILES

Reply #1
No joke, wow.  I'd be sore tempted if it were a 5 speed car.

1986 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe 5,580 ORIGINAL MILES

Reply #2
Oooh I like that. Now if only I had the money right now....
88 Thunderbird LX: 306, Edelbrock Performer heads, Comp 266HR cam, Edelbrock Performer RPM intake, bunch of other stuff.

1986 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe 5,580 ORIGINAL MILES

Reply #3
Automatic kills it TOTALLY, for me

I love those exterior color combo.
Mike

1986 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe 5,580 ORIGINAL MILES

Reply #4
I agree, beautiful car and what a color combo.    I'm partial to white, but next to my white, Id say that is a close runner up.

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86 Thunderbird 5.0.  All original good weather driver. Tbird Reg #53035
86 Thunderbird TC.  All original good weather driver.  Tbird Reg # 58555
87 Thunderbird TC.  All original good weather daily driver.  Tbird Reg # 64647

1986 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe 5,580 ORIGINAL MILES

Reply #5
Quote from: mcb82gt;451478
Automatic kills it TOTALLY, for me

I love those exterior color combo.

With that low mileage I would just cruise it and not bother modifying the car. In that case the fact that it has an automatic wouldn't bother me.
88 Thunderbird LX: 306, Edelbrock Performer heads, Comp 266HR cam, Edelbrock Performer RPM intake, bunch of other stuff.

1986 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe 5,580 ORIGINAL MILES

Reply #6
Quote from: thunderjet302;451486
With that low mileage I would just cruise it and not bother modifying the car. In that case the fact that it has an automatic wouldn't bother me.

I don't think thats true. If you start driving this car, things are going to start leaking. Everything is old and never used and dried up. and for $12,000 you could buy something thats going to appreciate in value.

1986 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe 5,580 ORIGINAL MILES

Reply #7
Quote from: jpc647;451495
...... and for $12,000 you could buy something thats going to appreciate in value.

And that would be???  :hick:
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1986 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe 5,580 ORIGINAL MILES

Reply #8
Quote from: jpc647;451495
I don't think thats true. If you start driving this car, things are going to start leaking. Everything is old and never used and dried up. and for $12,000 you could buy something thats going to appreciate in value.

Depends on your definition of "drive". For me it would be just back and forth to shows or a pleasure drive, not make it a daily driver. Heck I'm lucky if I put 1500 miles on my Thunderbird in a year.... It may require some seals/gaskets/hoses to be replaced but that's ok. It would be cheap in the grand scheme of things.
88 Thunderbird LX: 306, Edelbrock Performer heads, Comp 266HR cam, Edelbrock Performer RPM intake, bunch of other stuff.

1986 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe 5,580 ORIGINAL MILES

Reply #9
Quote from: rodsterh;451515
And that would be???  :hick:

Something from the 70's that people want. A chevelle, a base model 442, something along those lines.

Quote from: thunderjet302;451517
Depends on your definition of "drive". For me it would be just back and forth to shows or a pleasure drive, not make it a daily driver. Heck I'm lucky if I put 1500 miles on my Thunderbird in a year.... It may require some seals/gaskets/hoses to be replaced but that's ok. It would be cheap in the grand scheme of things.

True, It's a nice car, if you want to take it to shows, etc. I dunno, for that price, it should need nothing for a loooong time. You could spend half that and get a nice car that needs a few things, and the car will only have 60-70k miles on it.

It's a nice car, and it's probably worth the $9,100 it sold for. Personally, I wouldn't have paid that for it.

1986 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe 5,580 ORIGINAL MILES

Reply #10
ok ive never seen a trunk liner~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i would have been in sooooooooooooo much trouble if i had known about this bid

 

1986 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe 5,580 ORIGINAL MILES

Reply #11
Value is relative, and something is worth only what someone feels its worth spending.  The assumption is that all car buyers are motivated by investment thinking, but i think that is largely untrue.  I have collected many kinds of things over my life, and rarely was future value the driving force behind my tastes and desire to own/collect.  People with the cash to buy cars today, are mid 30's to mid 40's for the most part as that group is settled down, family oriented, generally financially able to collect, and wanting what was cool from their era of growing up.  I am 47.  I thought muscle cars were cool cause as a 10 year old kid in 1977, every badass kid i knew older than me drove one.  Fast forward 10 years and the cool cars of the 80's were few and far between, but to someone of that era growing up, although cool, 60's-70's muscle has lost some of its appeal to buyers who have no emotional stake in the cars.  Their cool uncle or older brother may have drove a camaro, Fox Mustang or Grand National, so perceptions of cool differ by era and age group.  The really old antique cars of the 20's, 30's and 40's to average joe buyers have almost no appeal unless gramps was a car guy who you did sunday drives and parades with.  Its just the ebb and flow of collecting.  All that being said, i love me a unicorn of a car, and almost new low miler with an Auto trans is freaking cool in my opinion, and a very cool discussion starter.








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