Need data on 88 Sport Coupes Reply #30 – January 20, 2013, 01:19:02 AM I think you could get the moonroof only in '88...myself, I've seen several Fox catBirds with sunroofs, but the only ones to have a moonroof were '88 models. Quote Selected
Need data on 88 Sport Coupes Reply #31 – January 20, 2013, 09:37:09 AM Beau, the 84 XR7 in my back yard is a factory moonroof car. Quote Selected
Need data on 88 Sport Coupes Reply #32 – January 20, 2013, 11:19:14 AM Sunroof = flip up, no powerMoonroof = full power retract/flip upMoonroofs were available in 1987. Also, apparently, in late 1986. Previous to '86 all of them were sunroofs from the factory. Quote Selected
Need data on 88 Sport Coupes Reply #33 – January 22, 2013, 11:48:08 AM I have a 87 sport coupe. It has floor shift both front seats are full power. It has every option except the sound euqlizer and moonroof. Mine was built in july of 86 and was a demo car at gene latta ford in hanover pa for 8 months it sat in there show room and went to promotional events. Then my parents bought it with 3500 miles on it Quote Selected
Need data on 88 Sport Coupes Reply #34 – January 22, 2013, 12:21:19 PM From the 87 Dealer brochure........Here are some additional production figures:2.1 Production Numbers1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 Total 121,999 170,551 151,852 165,965 128,135 147,243 V6 57.8% 55% 52% 67.8% 59.2% 46.3% V8 31.9% 31.4% 34.3% 19.2% 22.2% 28.4% TC 10.3% 8.6% 13.7% 13% 18.6% 25.3% Manual trans 10.3% 6.3% 8% 8.3% 12% 15.4% Sunroofs 2.2% 8.7% 7.6% 12.9%  Quote Selected
Need data on 88 Sport Coupes Reply #35 – January 22, 2013, 03:37:42 PM Quote from: jcassity;407527ok so to be clear, one last question,A sunroof turbo coupe in 88 would be the all time rarest? I'd say a base with with Moonroof would be the rarest and the TC most common... At least five of the dozen plus TC I owned had holes in the roof... I don't ever remember seeing a base or even LX with a Moonroof... Quote Selected
Need data on 88 Sport Coupes Reply #36 – January 22, 2013, 05:18:22 PM Quote from: MY83T;407735Here are some additional production figures:2.1 Production Numbers1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 Total 121,999 170,551 151,852 165,965 128,135 147,243 V6 57.8% 55% 52% 67.8% 59.2% 46.3% V8 31.9% 31.4% 34.3% 19.2% 22.2% 28.4% TC 10.3% 8.6% 13.7% 13% 18.6% 25.3% Manual trans 10.3% 6.3% 8% 8.3% 12% 15.4% Sunroofs 2.2% 8.7% 7.6% 12.9% With those percentages, it makes it easy to get the TC production along with the breakdown of the TC driveline. 1983 – 12,566 – 100% manual.1984 – 14,667 – 10,744 man. / 3,923 auto.1985 – 20,804 – 12,148 man. / 8,656 auto.1986 – 21,575 – 13,775 man. / 7,800 auto.1987 – 23,833 – 15,376 man. / 8,457 auto.1988 – 37,252 – 22,675 man. / 14,577 auto. Quote Selected
Need data on 88 Sport Coupes Reply #37 – April 17, 2013, 09:28:07 PM Quote from: EricCoolCats;407546Sunroof = flip up, no powerMoonroof = full power retract/flip up................. I never did know what the difference was between what was called a sunroof & what was called a moonroof. Thanks for this info.......I've got it now!Ron Quote Selected
Need data on 88 Sport Coupes Reply #38 – April 18, 2013, 06:34:42 AM My 88 is a 5.0 Sport, and unfornately has the leaker moonroof too detact from it. Seriously, I have considered welding that hole in the roof shut ! (guess being caught in a freezing rain storm in a tux going to a friends wedding, the thought of welding it shut became very heart warming!) Quote Selected
what constitutes a T-Bird Sport Reply #39 – April 18, 2013, 03:52:29 PM There is much evidence that cars were produced and sold as "Sport" models with various equipment lists. That said, IMHO as the original owner of an '88 T-Bird Sport (as it was called), there was a very specific list of options that made the car desirable to me in 1988. The total package was the finest, most highly developed iteration of the Fox platform, perhaps the best car that Ford never told anyone about. It was and is "A Mustang for Grownups". What I remember (and this list may not be comprehensive as I am writing without referring to sales literature) made a T-Bird a "Sport" was:5.0L roller lifters & chain w/forged pistons, but not a full HO (the HO engine had Mass Air injection, tube headers and a hotter cam)4-shock rear suspension from Mustang, 8.8" traction-loc diff.Polyurethane suspension bushings, larger front and rear sway bars, harder springs than the LX, stiffer struts.6-way power front seats with special center console housing shifter, window and seat controls, also different column, wheel & dash with buttstuffog instruments. I have optional Premium Sound but Sport could be had without that.Aluminum 4 lug wheels with distinctive eight hole pattern.I remember seeing Sports offered by dealers with and without the moon/sun roof. It cost about 1 1/2 inches of headroom and was a guaranteed future leak. I called them Rain Roofs and got a car without one.Am I forgetting anything?It looked to me like a convenient platform around which to build a Ford V-8 hotrod when the wife was done driving it. So far, so good.. Quote Selected
Need data on 88 Sport Coupes Reply #40 – April 18, 2013, 04:26:28 PM Quote from: 87 T-BIRD;404379My 87 Bird is also a sport, it came from the factory with a floor shift auto, 2.73 limited slip, and it had a power driver seat. Now their is nothing stock or factory except for the body.:DMy '88 is also a Sport. And again, nothing is stock or factory as a Thunderbird....it's all Mustang and TC parts except the body. Quote Selected
Need data on 88 Sport Coupes Reply #41 – April 22, 2013, 05:26:40 PM The 87 I have has every option available or so I think.5.0 V8floor shiftermoonroofdual power seatsfactory equalizerauto dim/lampleatherIs there anything else?The bad thing is that it is in rough shape.I plan on using the parts, to get my other TC on the road. Quote Selected
Need data on 88 Sport Coupes Reply #42 – April 22, 2013, 05:38:00 PM Blkbrd88, I have a 88 5.0 LX, in 1988 they made very few with the 5.0 & the sports coupe because they changed the body style & They had the Mustang Cougar & VII, Believe me I tried to purchase a New T-Bird SC body with a Hi-Output 5.0 & They didn't make such an Animal Quote Selected
Need data on 88 Sport Coupes Reply #43 – May 31, 2013, 08:14:00 PM there is a medium canyon red 96,000 mile, 87 Sport for sale in Chino Valley Az.(about a hundred miles north of Phoenix). I was going to go see it tomorrow, until the owner informed me that it wouldn't go into overdrive and had been driven about 2000 miles since it started having that problem. He is asking $1650 for it.The craigslist url is:http://prescott.craigslist.org/cto/3839566013.htmlRon Quote Selected
Need data on 88 Sport Coupes Reply #44 – May 31, 2013, 10:10:37 PM Offer a thousand for it, and tell him you know of a good trans shop. Meanwhile find a Stang's AOD and swap into it, and enjoy the heck out of it..? Quote Selected
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