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Still just as good as new car.

Reply #15 –
Quote from: V8Demon;437230
Don't forget these:


These ruined them in the northeast.....  So many of them back in the day when I had my first one and early on with my current one.  Many of those ruined by stop light commandos with spiked hair who don't know how to put the cell phone down.  Others driven into the ground because they became just about THE cheapest V8 on the road for a bit up here, much like the Olds Cutlass was before them.  Example:  saw an 88 V8 sport for sale at a gas station a few years ago.  Blue, clean in & out, 100K on it.  $600......  When I went back in hopes of snagging it a few days later, it was gone.  I'm quite certain it has met the crusher by this point.

I know your point.  I used to own an 81 Tbird, beautiful car fully loaded no rust, before I bought this white 86.  The guy I sold the 81 to was freshly married and I thought he might take care of it.  I found it in the parking lot of a service station about a year later, he had, in a drunken state, crashed the car and totaled the thing.  I was heart broken to see it in that condition.

Go Fast the first time.  The tickets the same.
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

Still just as good as new car.

Reply #16 –
Quote from: My10-80;437251
I know your point.  I used to own an 81 Tbird, beautiful car fully loaded no rust, before I bought this white 86.  The guy I sold the 81 to was freshly married and I thought he might take care of it.  I found it in the parking lot of a service station about a year later, he had, in a drunken state, crashed the car and totaled the thing.  I was heart broken to see it in that condition.

I had the same thing happen to a very clean low mileage 1978 'Bird.  6 months after selling it to the guy, I saw the car...wrecked.  the guy had been out drinking and wound up wrapping it around a telephone pole.  It broke my heart.

Still just as good as new car.

Reply #18 –
These cars have a "futuristic" look to them, even after all these years! I love taking my Cougar out because someone usually always wants to ask about the car. There just aren't many left, which makes me sad.
 

Still just as good as new car.

Reply #19 –
Quote from: My10-80;437130
Still just as good as new car

Better.

Been driving a lot of new cars lately for a variety of reasons and wow. Somehow I'm missing it. I don't get it and once again, I must be in an extreme minority. I mean, hell, I do own Cougars from the 80s so there is already something 'off' with me but wow. People with other priorities who don't have time to mess with cars are faced with these options and I guess these new cars aren't bad enough to everyone else to result in trend changes. Our FJ is her driver. Not mine. If she drives something else, it sits in the driveway as I still choose an older cat over that thing.

Quote from: DerikWayne;437494
...someone usually always wants to ask about the car.

Looking at the front with a big cat logo, looking at the side with a small cat logo, or looking at the rear with two cat logos in the lights and 'COUGAR' on the decklid, it's usually "What year Thunderbird is that?"

Believe it or not, I even had that question with one of my cars whose personlized plates has the year followed by 'XR7' ON THE TAGS!
"lol.. because not too many people care for that style of car"
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