360 Mile TC?

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Reply #30 – May 31, 2008, 03:06:30 PM

While the standard tires were the P225/60VR-16 Goodyear Eagle VR “Gatorback's”, there was also an optional tire available.

You could order the car with P225/60VR-16 Goodyear Eagle GT+4 all-season performance tires; this was option code T23 and coston the cost the buyer an extra $73.00 at sticker price.

Brent
:cougarsmily:

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Reply #31 – May 31, 2008, 04:51:17 PM

*drool* *slurp* *drool*

want...

It's right near me, too. I've always wanted a blue one! Unfortunately I can't drive stick, and I have nowhere to put it except across the street. Someone with a garage needs to grab this beauty.

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Reply #32 – May 31, 2008, 06:24:13 PM

Quote from: BCA;221453

While the standard tires were the P225/60VR-16 Goodyear Eagle VR “Gatorback's”, there was also an optional tire available.

You could order the car with P225/60VR-16 Goodyear Eagle GT+4 all-season performance tires; this was option code T23 and coston the cost the buyer an extra $73.00 at sticker price.

Brent

But can you be absolutely sure those are the original tires?

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Reply #33 – May 31, 2008, 08:57:11 PM

Was the block heater available on the 87-88s?

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Reply #34 – May 31, 2008, 09:48:39 PM

See post #10......

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Reply #35 – May 31, 2008, 09:51:19 PM

It wasn't the spotlight??? ...

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Reply #36 – June 01, 2008, 05:36:56 AM

haha!
I knew it was gonna be something like tires.
I almost mentioned them just for the heck of it, lol.

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Reply #37 – June 01, 2008, 10:27:47 AM

Quote from: *MAYHEM*;221467

But can you be absolutely sure those are the original tires?

Are you are asking if there is a way to verify whether the tires that are on that car in the auction are the originals?

Actually there is a way.

On the tire there is a date stamp that will tell you the week of the year that tire was made and this will be shortly before the build date of the car.
So if the tires are not the originals, they will have a newer production date code than the car.

If the tires are original to the car, if their date codes will all be within a few weeks of each other and they should be no more than a few months older than the car.

As an example; I have a set wheels & tires (Gatorbacks :headbang: ) that were taken off of 1990 Mustang GT that a friend of mine purchased new. He immediately replaced the original wheels & tires with a set of aftermarkets and I purchased the originals from him. Three of the tires have a date code of “090” and the fourth tire has a code of “140”. These numbers translate to the 9th and the 14th week of 1990 or late February and March of 1990. The car was built in May of 1990, less than two months after the tires.

Brent

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Reply #38 – June 02, 2008, 07:45:30 AM

So are the tires on that t-bird original?

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Reply #39 – June 02, 2008, 10:47:01 AM

Quote from: *MAYHEM*;221619

So are the tires on that t-bird original?

The tires that are on the car are the correct standard equipment tire.
In order to determine if they are indeed the original tires to the car when it rolled off the assembly line, someone would need to request a clear close-up picture of the date stamp on the tires and of the door jam sticker showing when the car was made.

Brent
:cougarsmily:

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Reply #40 – June 02, 2008, 04:00:08 PM

See, what I'm getting at here is that you are saying theat it didn't have the option tire but there is no way for you to know that for sure. It may have had them but they didn't like them and changed them.

Just bustin' yer balls, man. It's one of those simple pleasures I get out of life.

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Reply #41 – June 02, 2008, 04:13:51 PM

Quote from: *MAYHEM*;221654

See, what I'm getting at here is that you are saying theat it didn't have the option tire but there is no way for you to know that for sure. It may have had them but they didn't like them and changed them.

Just bustin' yer balls, man. It's one of those simple pleasures I get out of life.

And here I thought you were seriously thinking of buying the car and wanted to know what was needed to verify that it was an original 360 mile car with the original tires.

You got me though. Yes I have know way of knowing for sure whether it came with those tires pictured on the car currently without going through the hoops needed to ask.
I am tempted to contact the buyer but since I'm not going to purchase it, I'm not going to bother him.

I'm pretty picky about the details though, so I guess I deserved it. :D

Brent

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Reply #42 – June 02, 2008, 04:54:09 PM

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I'm pretty picky about the details though

Kevin Marti is picky as well.

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Reply #43 – June 02, 2008, 05:10:18 PM

Quote from: V8Demon;221660

Kevin Marti is picky as well.

The rumor is that he has secured the contract to do the 1980 and newer stuff. It's been a couple of years since that rumor started going around and I still haven't seen anything from him yet.

I hope it's true though.

Brent
:cougarsmily:

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Reply #44 – June 02, 2008, 08:12:14 PM

I hope somebody does it!

His website still shows to '79 only.....I check every now and again.