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Tbird dragging bumper!

Well, not in the way you'd expect. Evidently this was an accident here locally. Hehe.

1988 Tbird Stock bottom end 306, Windsor Jr's, Explorer intake, 125 shot.
Best ET: 12.11 Best MPH: 113.8 1/4 mile

Tbird dragging bumper!

Reply #1
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Tbird dragging bumper!

Reply #2
Should be fixed...but let me know if you get the   
1988 Tbird Stock bottom end 306, Windsor Jr's, Explorer intake, 125 shot.
Best ET: 12.11 Best MPH: 113.8 1/4 mile

Tbird dragging bumper!

Reply #3
:laughing:
Okay, how did that thing not roll?

Tbird dragging bumper!

Reply #4
Didn't sombody post a pic of a green thunderbird a while back in that same situation?  Also does anyone see that the cable between the front wheel and the bottom of the bumper doesn't line up with the piece on the ground?
One 88

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Reply #5
Quote from: CougarSE
Didn't sombody post a pic of a green thunderbird a while back in that same situation?  Also does anyone see that the cable between the front wheel and the bottom of the bumper doesn't line up with the piece on the ground?


Not only that but where the "cable" bent it looks like someone was trying a bit hard to make it look correct. and yes but that wan an Mn12 and in an urban nieghborhood.

Tbird dragging bumper!

Reply #6
Nope it's real. Check this out :D

http://forums.tccoa.com/showthread.php?t=79481
88 Thunderbird LX: 306, Edelbrock Performer heads, Comp 266HR cam, Edelbrock Performer RPM intake, bunch of other stuff.

Tbird dragging bumper!

Reply #7
now's the time to make them a sweet offer of 200 dollars!  i bet my car has a worse frame!
84 TC 302 -5.0L/t5/7.5 locking rear and a 3.45 gear, Edelbrock Intake, Aluminum Heads, Edlebrock 65mm Throttlebody, Edlebrock Cam, 24lb injectors & MAS Air Sensor calibrated via chip,  BBK headers, Catback H pipe, Magnaflow lers :evilgrin:
:pics-stfu:

 Project Thread with pics

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Reply #8
I would bet that as well.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

Tbird dragging bumper!

Reply #9
I met the guy here tonight at a local car show, its for real, he really did wreck it, I dont know how in the world that happened though. Small world.
1988 Tbird Stock bottom end 306, Windsor Jr's, Explorer intake, 125 shot.
Best ET: 12.11 Best MPH: 113.8 1/4 mile

Tbird dragging bumper!

Reply #10
If you read the one post, a car came straight at him, or slammed on the brakes, and he swearved off of the road to save it, ended up hitting the wires sticking out infront of the pole.

I would have prolly hit the car over ditching the car off road. Specially if I was moving fast.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

Tbird dragging bumper!

Reply #11
Judging by the emptiness of shoulders of the road, it looks like it was a solid attempt to avoid a collision. I would have done the same. It just so happened that there was a line there.

He still is one lucky person because if he had caught the line with the right or left side of the car instead of the center, it would have flipped him.

Tbird dragging bumper!

Reply #12
poles will f*ck you up too!  Better a line than a pole!
84 TC 302 -5.0L/t5/7.5 locking rear and a 3.45 gear, Edelbrock Intake, Aluminum Heads, Edlebrock 65mm Throttlebody, Edlebrock Cam, 24lb injectors & MAS Air Sensor calibrated via chip,  BBK headers, Catback H pipe, Magnaflow lers :evilgrin:
:pics-stfu:

 Project Thread with pics

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Reply #13
You get a line I'll get a pole baby.
You get a line I'll get a pole child.
You get a line I'll get a pole.
We'll go fishing in the Thunderbird hole
Baby, child o' mine!!!
-Jim
1987 Cougar LS 5.0


 

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Reply #14
Well with that larger pic you can see the peices of the wire guard laying on the ground and what I thought was the wire before looks to be just a peice of the wire guard.
One 88