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Reply #15
Well Original I had the puppiesanese sport car and Luxobarge hot rod bug back in the early teens, being inspired by a 82-84 Metallic tan/brown Toyota Supra, and a 87-88 Olds 442 at the GM dealears used car lot at the other end of my block. Then in 1993 (I think) my mom picked up the brown 86 LS one day, with rust and crippled exuast,  I was not impressed and not in league with fords.  When I got my license it was a pain to drive, and shoulder checking was  near impossible.

Then my mom got that 91 Caddy Deville and the Cougar was mine. And by my sophmore? year of high school I was driving it around with the factory locking hubcaps, white walls n' all.  And after beating it around mostly power sliding and skidding around in snow, I started to appreciate it more, and the body has grown on me since, although the  3.8 was hidiously underpowered, and needed some sand or gravel to get a burn out going.  Then in 2002 with 232XXX km's on it was the end. Started burning smoke and chugging a quart of oil per week, and that was the end for the LS.  Parking it as I had no money and Took out a Student loan for Collage.

Re: Just to kick things off with the first post here

Reply #16
well, my story is like mansons...i too was looking for a slowmaro. as a kid i always wanted one. never even heared of a thunderbird. my dad wasnt realy a car guy and hated ford. after 3 days of looking around for my first car my mom and dad were pretty sick of me being stubbarn. they didnt want me to have a camaro or certainly not a mustang. i didnt want an ancient barge, or piss ant piece of trash car so we were headed home with nothing. then there was this turbo coupe on the side of the road, facing us with a for sale sign in the windshield. i was like lets look at that one. i looked at it and fell in love. it looked kind of like a mustang but different, better i thought. the scoops were neet. the guy came out after a few minuts of looking at it and told us a little bit about the car. as soon as he said 4cyl i was bumbed...i certainly didnt want a friggin 4 cyl. i knew almost nothing about cars at the time. and a stick...i didnt know how to drive a stick...so we went home. i thought about it some and told my dad screw it i needed a car and i can learn stick. he said you realy want that? its a ford bla bla bla. well, we went back and he drove it for me. never reved it or even realy hit the power curve of the turbo hard. it drove solid, made no noise and seemed to be a decent car. so we bought it. it didnt take long to figure the whole stick thing out once i was left alone with it. after playing around with the car i realy figured out how to "drive". it didnt take long to figure out that the car screwed, was a hell of alot of fun and all without a V8. it impressed my friends and was prety much the fastest car in the school. my love for these cars happened pretty much by accident. ive had several since and now i have another. bought cheap soley for a project car this will be my first that wont be relied on as a daily driver. hopefully i can hold on to this one....lol
:america: 1988 Thunderbird Sport, Former 4.6 DOHC T56 conversion project.

Rest of the country, Welcome to Massachusettes. Enjoy your stay.

 
Halfbreed... Mango Orange Y2K Mustang GT
FRPP complete 2000 Cobra engine swap, T56 n' junk...
~John~

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Reply #17
I got mine for free from a friend leaving the country. I like it lot even though the previous owners mis-treated her alot. I've started fixing her up but most of my money still goes in to my '67 Mustang. There great compliments to each other and I love driving both of them.