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I made my dream come true... (New Pics 07.09.10)

Reply #15 –
Nice Beetle. I mean TT. :hick:

Should make a nice daily driver, and with fuel rapidly heading over a buck a liter again that lil' 1.8 should make you happy. I'd certainly pimp one...
2015 Mustang GT Premium - 5.0, 6-speed, Guard Green - too much awesome for one car

1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

I made my dream come true... (New Pics 07.09.10)

Reply #16 –
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haha no i'm not because now I gotta sell the Eclipse now to climb out of this hole that i just dug myself into by literally flipping a coin at the dealership to get the Audi
Congrats. I personally dont care for them (one of my friends had one) and would way rather have the eclipse. Hopefully it will fill that "void".
:america: 1988 Thunderbird Sport, Former 4.6 DOHC T56 conversion project.

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I made my dream come true... (New Pics 07.09.10)

Reply #17 –
so since my mom actually has a beetle and i visited my parents, and the cars happened to be side by side, i thought i'd take a few comparison photos.

Not so similar when put side by side is it ;)







it seems that they're the same width and length yet the TT is shorter, thus making the TT smaller than the Beetle.

I made my dream come true... (New Pics 07.09.10)

Reply #18 –
Which one is which again? :D
2015 Mustang GT Premium - 5.0, 6-speed, Guard Green - too much awesome for one car

1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

I made my dream come true... (New Pics 07.09.10)

Reply #19 –
Quote from: Thunder Chicken;285934
Which one is which again? :D

LMAO, that literally made me laugh out loud.. :bowdown:

I made my dream come true... (New Pics 07.09.10)

Reply #20 –
Man,, this is awsome,,
the wife as also fell in love with the TT but we decided to look into a few on Ebay. 

We discovered that the earlier years were more classy looking on the inside.  The later years started turning up more "hot wheels" interior looks with all sorts of odd paint colors and the like.

I think we concluded that the 2000 or 2001 models were more classy looking,, although I may have my years wrong, Ill bet you might know the interiors we are looking at now.

Fine looking car, maint is probably high.

I made my dream come true... (New Pics 07.09.10)

Reply #21 –
I LOVE those cars.  I was thrilled to get a chance to drive one when it came into the shop I used to work at.  Didn't realize I'd have to squeeze to fit into it.  Wierdest thing about it was the blue leather interior and the headlight sprayers.

I made my dream come true... (New Pics 07.09.10)

Reply #22 –
The back seat is pretty much a write off unless you have children under 10. About squeezing in there, I've gained a few pounds over the past year (probably clocking 230 now) and I have no issues with fitting in it, it's quite comfortable actually. Having driven such big cars in the past I am still having trouble adjusting to the fact that this car's so small.

The interior's definitely classy they did an excellent job of keeping it clean and hiding stuff such as the gas cap/trunk buttons, the power window switches, etc.

Even on the exterior, it took me 10 minutes to locate the windshield wiper reservoir. it's actually located outside of the engine bay in the driver side fender.

it also has cool features that I never knew about, such as the headlight washers (or aliens): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Tdgj6fmHo

THis car has definitely met and exceeded my expectations and I am definitely pleased that after over a decade of dreaming about this car, owning one didn't become a dissapointment.

I made my dream come true... (New Pics 07.09.10)

Reply #23 –
Quote from: Thunder Chicken;285934
Which one is which again? :D


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I made my dream come true... (New Pics 07.09.10)

Reply #24 –
I liked the TT until Mitsubishi stole the design for the Eclipse. Audis are really nice cars we got a few every once in a while at the VW dealership

I made my dream come true... (New Pics 07.09.10)

Reply #25 –
Cheap 2 seaters (these are $7k-12k here) are always good, especially well built ones. Coupes with a backseat are useless, like our cars, except for storage. I wouldn't mind one as a DD as there aren't many choices of 2 seaters that have decent power and get the fuel economy these do. For a year I was looking for a low mileage stock Del Sol due to this very reason but gave up - people who own one are not the type of people you want to buy a vehicle from.

Nice score. I bet it's quiet inside? You also mention the squirter - did the '00s have HID's?
1988 Thunderbird Sport

I made my dream come true... (New Pics 07.09.10)

Reply #26 –
I shoulda said that I found the front seats to be rather comfortable, but I couldn't even fall into the back seat with the front seat slid all the way forward.

I made my dream come true... (New Pics 07.09.10)

Reply #27 –
Quote from: Seek;285993
Nice score. I bet it's quiet inside? You also mention the squirter - did the '00s have HID's?

Yep its nice and quiet, and yes mine has the HID's, looks freakin awesome too.

Quote from: Ifixyawata;286019
I shoulda said that I found the front seats to be rather comfortable, but I couldn't even fall into the back seat with the front seat slid all the way forward.

Yeah, i've just been telling people it's a 2 seater car for that reason. It serves no purpose other than trick people into thinking it's a 4 seater car.

I made my dream come true... (New Pics 07.09.10)

Reply #28 –
I have a 03 VW Jetta with the 1.8T and 5spd.  With only a tweaked computer and a K&N it really rips.  I can only imagine your little TT is even quicker.

I made my dream come true... (New Pics 07.09.10)

Reply #29 –
The TT is a peppy little car, I assume yours is a manual? If so its even better! To be honest the Audi/VW thing is pretty nice. The cars on both sides have improved VASTLY. The TT is a pretty neat little car and is in most cases in the older models a pretty good deal. Not nearly as common on the road as a Corvette so its not played out like something like that. I bet it gets looks eveywhere you go.