The 'new' Cat, now with real pics June 01, 2007, 05:29:15 PM I've been working like crazy on my '88 for the past few days trying to get it done for Carlisle. I was planning on revealing it there but since it won't make an appearence, here it is...wait for it....just a teaser... wait until I get back from Carlisle Quote Selected
The 'new' Cat, now with real pics Reply #1 – June 01, 2007, 06:19:47 PM Not cool. At least you get to go, good thing there. You better supply pics, or out come the pitchforks. Quote Selected
The 'new' Cat, now with real pics Reply #2 – June 02, 2007, 03:40:32 AM That ain't right. :disappoin Quote Selected
The 'new' Cat, now with real pics Reply #4 – June 03, 2007, 06:27:10 PM Haha, you guys are funny.Well, here she is....I have to work on that hood gap though. Quote Selected
The 'new' Cat, now with real pics Reply #5 – June 03, 2007, 06:41:15 PM Since I bought this car in Sept 2001, it has had the bra on it. The same bra has been there since then so certainly almost 6 years later, the decision came to replace it or remove it completely.I have been asked on the street why the bra was there in the first place. Actually when I bought the car, paint was chipped badly off the front bumper and it was missing it's "Mercury" badge. The rest of the car looked so nice that I figured the best way to get around it temporarily would be to put a bra on it. For some reason though, I got used to the bra and liked the look a lot until I felt the urge to put a TC hood on. I bought this TC hood during my Senior year of high school (2002-03) and promptly put it on the car. It was off a silver TC so that is what I went with. Yes, I drove this car for several months with a silver TC hood and a bra. When I graduated high school, I decided I wanted to put the stock hood back on and there it has been until now. By removing the bra, the car looked so 'white' that I wanted to put the TC hood back on so that started all of this.So what work was involved? I repainted the front bumper and painted the TC hood. Due to rust issues, I did some heavy patching work on the lower part of the drivers door and the fender lip on the drivers side. Due to the use of the bra, I now had a nice tan line on the fenders and to rid the car of that, I resprayed both. On top of all this, I have a set of rust free doors that I plan to install as well as rust free fenders. So rather than pay a body shop to paint the front of the car, I just spray bombed it. I must say, it doesn't look bad at all. The entire car will eventually get a professional repaint once I'm ready for it but for now, this works just fine.Here's what I started with... Quote Selected
The 'new' Cat, now with real pics Reply #6 – June 03, 2007, 07:02:35 PM Looks nice man! Quote Selected
The 'new' Cat, now with real pics Reply #7 – June 03, 2007, 07:51:53 PM good job looks nice! Quote Selected
The 'new' Cat, now with real pics Reply #8 – June 03, 2007, 08:28:11 PM Thanks guys!I forgot to mention too. Sometime ago some a$$hatt broke my front license plate bracket. So I removed it and just mounted the tag directly to the bumper. I think it looks better anyway since I have a white tag and a white bumper. Quote Selected
The 'new' Cat, now with real pics Reply #9 – June 03, 2007, 08:30:36 PM Did you meet up with any of the guy sfrom TSTACC? Quote Selected
The 'new' Cat, now with real pics Reply #10 – June 03, 2007, 08:38:58 PM If I did, I really didn't know. First time I've heard of the Tri State T-Bird Cougar Club. Quote Selected
The 'new' Cat, now with real pics Reply #11 – June 03, 2007, 09:51:23 PM Lookin' sharp, man. If I had to choose from any color '88 XR7 (with body-color turbines), I would go with white. It just looks great. Quote Selected
The 'new' Cat, now with real pics Reply #12 – June 03, 2007, 10:03:23 PM That looks a LOT better, Fred. Excellent! It's nice to see the payoff after all your hard work. Quote Selected
The 'new' Cat, now with real pics Reply #13 – June 03, 2007, 10:32:47 PM Thanks Zach and Eric. Now you see why I didn't have enough money left for a brake job. All this was done on Saturday and Sunday last weekend as well as Thursday and Friday morning. So all in less than a weeks time, I transformed it into it's new look.The rust I had to contend with was just incredible. I had a hole in the front fender right on the lip about the length of an unsharpened pencil and the entire center bottom of the door was gone.She isn't perfect by any means but just looks sooo much better now.These are for anyone who thinks my car is rust free. Quote Selected
The 'new' Cat, now with real pics Reply #14 – June 04, 2007, 01:24:10 AM QuoteI would go with white. It just looks great.I always liked the white on the 87-88's. Car look great. Quote Selected
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