By By Bird (well for a few months)

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By By Bird (well for a few months)

October 29, 2005, 06:59:49 PM

November 1st is almost here and my Bird is going to be put away for 5 months till April 1st. So tomorrow I'll be changing the oil, flushing and filling the coolant, dumping some stabil in the gas tank, and polishing and waxing the Bird before I put it away. I've got a garage and a cover for it so it will be safe this winter (like all the other ones since I've had it). Just made me think today " winters comming along with 5 months of suckey weather". I live in Chicago so I have to put the Bird away Nov. 1st cause we usually get snow sometime in Nov. and even if it's only 1/2 an inch they'll salt. I can't let a car that looks like this get ruined by salt.

By By Bird (well for a few months)

Reply #1 – October 29, 2005, 07:07:24 PM

I wish I had a garage to put mine in :(

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Reply #2 – October 29, 2005, 07:19:12 PM

Well it's not really my garage. I keep it in my grandfathers garage because he dosen't drive anymore. The plus side is he only lives a block from my house so I just keep it there all year. It's a one and a half car garage so I don't have to worry about mostiure getting in cause no one goes in there except me. The only thing that sucks is when I want to drive the Bird I have to walk a whole block to get it:rolleyes: . Well till April I get to drive my daily driver only. It's a 93 Buick Century with a 3.3 V6. It can't even come close to comparing to the Bird for comfort, looks, or power.

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Reply #3 – October 29, 2005, 07:24:19 PM

Oh forgot to say you have a nice 88 XR7 :D . I want one some day. I've always liked the white and black ones. An old guy by me had one for sale last year. It was black with the black turbines. It had, get this 25,000 miles! It looked like it just rolled of the showroom floor! I would have bought it but he wanted $6,000 for it and I didn't have the cash. Some one bought it and I occasionally see it at cruise nights in the area.

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Reply #4 – October 29, 2005, 07:31:55 PM

Quote from: thunderjet302

Oh forgot to say you have a nice 88 XR7 :D . I want one some day. I've always liked the white and black ones. An old guy by me had one for sale last year. It was black with the black turbines. It had, get this 25,000 miles! It looked like it just rolled of the showroom floor! I would have bought it but he wanted $6,000 for it and I didn't have the cash. Some one bought it and I occasionally see it at cruise nights in the area.

Thank you! I wish mine had 25,000 on it. Instead add about 200,000.:(
The only "family member" garage in my family is at my aunts who is about 17 miles from me. But she uses it to house my grandmother's Corolla and her Saturn Relay:yuck: She did let me use it for a couple weeks to do my manifold swap and put in a new heater core though.

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Reply #5 – October 30, 2005, 01:06:26 AM

I'm puttin my bird away soon too...tomorrow the weather will FINALLY be nice so I'm gonna finally put my Esslinger adjustable cam sprocket on. But within the next couple weeks it's getting washed & cleaned up, and I'm gonna park it in a shed by my dad's house with a car cover on it. I already stopped driving it for the year because I was afraid my squealing throwout bearing was gonna sieze up on me.

Unfortunately, from what I've heard we're gonna get a good bit of snow this winter, and the roof on this shed has already been damaged by a snowstorm we had in 2003. So I have a feeling I'll have to go down there sometime this winter to move it out of the shed so it doesn't get crushed

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Reply #6 – October 30, 2005, 06:51:00 AM

I drive mine all year, just not in snow. But it rarely snows in the VA Beach area.

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Reply #7 – October 31, 2005, 12:19:32 AM

Gotta get my Heater Core hoses replaced and I will drive mine for a few weeks(weather permitting) then she goes back in the garage for some nice r and r and a little tlc.