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Fascinating, I had no idea!

This arrived on the Bangshift blog today. Never heard of this before. If anyone has details on one of these cars, please let me know. Would be awesome to have one if its a reasonable price.

http://bangshift.com/general-news/car-features/ford-car-features/would-you-rather-the-bizzaro-world-thunderbird-edition-they-both-have-power-adders-and-manual-transmissions-and-theyre-both-freaks/

Fascinating, I had no idea!

Reply #1 –
It'd drop a lot of money for that 88 Turbo Coupe varient.

Also, I found this....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/181890419710

Fascinating, I had no idea!

Reply #2 –
I think the Bangshift guy was a little harsh on the '86 TC. The "Vipera" is an abomination, but the TC is a nice car.
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 ♣

Fascinating, I had no idea!

Reply #4 –
My god, the MN12 was fugly enough, but that c00ch..errr vipara thing is an optical assault.


I've personally never laid eyes upon the proverbial "bag of mashed assholes", but I couldn't imagine it looking any worse than that car...lol
'98 Explorer 5.0
'20 Malibu (I know, Chevy, but, 35MPG. Let's go brandon, eh)

Fascinating, I had no idea!

Reply #5 –
I would love to own that gullwing '86. I'd prefer to own both, though the Vipara is definitely an example of the extreme of styling in ~1990, which just ends up dated too strongly.

The Vipara is very Vector W8-esque. IMO the MN-12 'Bird side windows ruin the whole thing as they're too pedestrian for the wild remainder of the car.
Wheel choice is definitely on the money. The dashboards of those cars are a little "pen 15pit"-ish too, they slightly surround the driver and are more aggressive-looking than the late Fox. The 80s-90s "Aero" stuff seems more and more like history repeating a la the late 50s - early 60s.

I guarantee in the day that thing looked like a rocketship to passers-by. Lower it and put something, anything with 400-500 horsepower under the hood. Then it would earn that body. Preferably a turbo V8.
1987 20th Anniversary Cougar, 302 "5.0" GT-40 heads (F3ZE '93 Cobra) and TMoss Ported H.O. intake, H.O. camshaft
2.5" Duals, no cats, Flowmaster 40s, Richmond 3.73s w/ Trac-Lok, maxed out Baumann shift kit, 3000 RPM Dirty Dog non-lock TC
Aside from the Mustang crinkle headers, still looks like it's only 150 HP...
1988 Black XR7 Trick Flow top end, Tremec 3550
1988 Black XR7 Procharger P600B intercooled, Edelbrock Performer non-RPM heads, GT40 intake AOD, 13 PSI @5000 RPM. 93 octane

Fascinating, I had no idea!

Reply #6 –
The four eye turbo car is still for sale. $24000.

It'd drop about $8,000 cash on the table. Sorry, but the 86 and below motors without the intercoolers etc, just don't do it for me.. Sorry guys, no offense.

It'd easily drop 12-15k for the 1988 Turbo Coupe version of the car, if I could find it. As long as it isn't a red interior.

Fascinating, I had no idea!

Reply #7 –
Do not like either. I like stock appearing cars ;)
88 Thunderbird LX: 306, Edelbrock Performer heads, Comp 266HR cam, Edelbrock Performer RPM intake, bunch of other stuff.

Fascinating, I had no idea!

Reply #8 –
Quote from: thunderjet302;453836
Do not like either. I like stock appearing cars ;)

Coming from the guy with arguably the prettiest stock appearing car on the forum. My had it off to you on that, by the way.

Fascinating, I had no idea!

Reply #9 –
Quote from: jpc647;453891
Coming from the guy with arguably the prettiest stock appearing car on the forum. My had it off to you on that, by the way.


I like the sleeper element. Makes it more fun to surprise people ;).
88 Thunderbird LX: 306, Edelbrock Performer heads, Comp 266HR cam, Edelbrock Performer RPM intake, bunch of other stuff.