Really clean 1988 5.0 Cougar Reply #45 – October 13, 2012, 07:05:36 PM Quote from: thunderjet302;400223I'm glad it went to someone who will take care of it and not beat it to death. Most of the time a clean example like this gets bought as a "kids" car and destroyed because it is cheap. How many Cougars do you have now? This one is kind of rare given that it is a LS with a floor shifter. I don't think thay made too many of them.BTW I think I have a spare power recline button cover sitting around if you need it.Yeah, I wish I could save them all. I have four Cougars. Many people have seen the other three at Cat Jam. They have each been to Cat Jam twice. I think these cars look good in both the LS treatment and XR-7 treatment so I had been keeping an 'eye out' for a fairly loaded black LS. This one also has a full size spare. That's the first Cougar I've owned out of seven Cougars from '85 to '88 that has a full size spare.I'm might be using the wrong term. It's that large grey cover that flanks the lower outer side of the seat. The recline button sits on top of it. Is that the piece you have? Quote from: ZondaC12;400224It absolutely warms my heart to hear someone ELSE actually expressly state they do this on a regular basis. I get made fun of so bad, especially by my one friend and his dad, for these little things. And there is no limit with me...I buttstuffyze and over-buttstuffyze everything's weakness and baby it to death, and demand any passengers do the same. The stuff wears out/breaks under what you "should be able to do to it". So....I want it to last, and I don't mind being slightly "inconvenienced".I wonder how long most cars on the road would last if *everyone* acted like this!Yeah, there's more habits too likenot using the wipers any faster than the windshield can accumulate enough rain to minimize marring the glass,not shoving the sun visors into the glass to prevent the outer edges from getting floppy,always putting a sun shade in the window even in the winter, even when it's under a car cover, to protect the dashputting the car in neutral, then drawing the e-brake only enough to hold the car and nothing more (to prevent excessive cable stretching), then putting it in park so it's resting on replaceable shoes instead of a transmission unless I'm on level ground or parking long-term then I won't use the brakewatching the power antenna go down and go up and releasing the button milliseconds before it hits bottom or top,doing the same with the power windows and if I think I didn't let go fast enough, I 'bump' the switch in the other direction to relieve stress on the mechanisms,giving the radio button several quick full rotations before turning the radio on to reduce any oxidation on the contacts so I don't blow my speakers with scratching once I turn it on and adjust the volume,floor mats on top of floor matspulling the hood release gently straight out, not yanking it crookedI do this for all my Cougars and that's just what I can remember. It's been a while since I have driven any of my cars. Quote from: thunderjet302;400228I don't touch the windows when they go up or down. It leaves smudges .I don't either. I release the button just at the precise moment the glass edge hits the channel and if I think there is stress, I bump the switch the other direction. Quote from: ThunderbirdSport302;400227^^ The MN12 cars interiors feel cheap compared to the Fix Birds/Cougars. Both of the '89 cars I *endured* rattled like a truckload of empty beer cans being driven across a plowed field in december by a drunk.Rattly, falls apart constantly, and looks like it was designed by a pen 15ed out dope banger in the dark.Did I say I don't care for MN12's styling (or glaring lack of)? lolI'd say I'd rather have a Fox Mustang than an MN12, and I do. I would take a '97 Tbird, only if it was the 4.6 engine, and only if it had a mint interior, and, well, mint everything. But back to topic. The story of the car in this thread is cool. Glad that it's in the hands of someone who appreciates it :)Glad you guys see that I appreciate these cars! Quote Selected
Really clean 1988 5.0 Cougar Reply #46 – October 13, 2012, 11:37:27 PM Don't forget not slamming the console lid down. That's the big one right there. Quote Selected
Really clean 1988 5.0 Cougar Reply #47 – October 14, 2012, 12:55:21 AM I don't think anything makes me cringe *quite* like having to pull a lever out of Park with the car sitting on the pin on a steep hill. Or witnessing someone else do it with their car! Awful. Quote Selected
Really clean 1988 5.0 Cougar Reply #48 – October 14, 2012, 04:57:03 PM Quote from: EricCoolCats;400421Don't forget not slamming the console lid down. That's the big one right there. Yeah, I'm forgetting some like that one except I press the button in, then gently push the lid closed then release the button. I also forgot to mention that I try to avoid maxing the power mirrors to their limits too. I don't lean on the cars and I close the hood with my finger tips sprawled out along the extreme rolled edge of the hood, not the heel of my hand in the middle of the hood like so many other people do. Quote Selected
Really clean 1988 5.0 Cougar Reply #49 – October 14, 2012, 09:05:29 PM I got a console in my LS...all the other options I've put in myself though, to go over the top and stop being bothered by the fact I don't have an XR7 lol Quote Selected
Really clean 1988 5.0 Cougar Reply #50 – October 15, 2012, 06:56:53 PM Quote from: Cougars 2 go;400398I'm might be using the wrong term. It's that large grey cover that flanks the lower outer side of the seat. The recline button sits on top of it. Is that the piece you have? I have both. The button/switch and the side panel/cover for the seat. It is in dark gray/charcoal, not the smoke that the interior of my T-bird is. The side cover/panel has no cracks. I pulled it from a Cougar because even though it's the wrong color for my car it was in good shape. Quote Selected
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