FS: 1988 Thunderbird Turbocoupe; 5-speed

[somethingclever]

Will sell whole or partout.

Car runs/drives/brakes excellent. Body is a little beat with dents/dings/rust.

If there isn't any interest in the car as a whole I will be keeping the complete drivetrain (engine/trans/rear) and selling everything else or it's going to the crusher.

Will sell entire car for $900 firm...drive it home!

Car just ran out of inspection but that's only because my buddy (who I was letting use it) bought a truck since it was needed more than a car.

Car has lots of new parts on it including rear brakes, steering rack and hoses, timing belt and tensioner, high output headlight kit, clutch master and slave cylinders....etc.

Car has about 130k on it I believe. Rearend was gone through 10k miles ago. All electronics work!

Car is pretty much all stock except it does have a cone filter and manual boost controller set to 15psi.

Only thing I would recommend is getting the strut tower on the driverside patched up with some steel. It has a good bit of rust there.

Here are some older pics....body looks a good bit rougher than this now...interior is pretty much the same.

[somethingclever]

Car is located in Eighty Four.

If I part it, I'm only selling body/interior/suspension parts.

Car also has a hitch and wiring hookups....pulled a quad trailer like a pro. ;)

[Hidalgogt]

I might be interested if you can get me some more up to date pics. Wana quit driving the big d as much as i do.

[08Snake]

Any ideas what it will need to pass inspection? If its not too much I may pick it up from you

[somethingclever]

I will work on up to date pics...there is a dent on the DS door..some rust here and there...and just in general the paint needs a good cleaning.

I don't think it will need really anything to pass inspection...depending on how strict your insp. station is. There are rust holes in the DS strut tower and that is why it didn't pass for the previous owner. I bought it, and let my buddy drive it for a year and he replaced the parts listed above (so they are less than a yr old). The inspection station he took it to passed it. To be honest, If I were driving it I would get some steel in there and weld up some patches.

Forgot to mention the car has nearly all new brakes lines to the rear.

I will try to find out more about it this week as the car is at his house.

[somethingclever]

Also...the car has 2 or 4 good Blizzaks on it. With 200lbs of sand in the trunk and trac-loc rear it was a tank in the white stuff.

[somethingclever]

Car has 2 like new rear blizzaks and 2 all season tires on the front that are like new.


22-23mpg around town and 28-30 highway

[Swarzkopf]

This is $$$$ tempting to buy and swap the drivetrain into my 93 LX. :madgrin:

[somethingclever]

This car is the PERFECT donor...mechanically perfect!

That's what I had purchased it for but a buddy of mine ended up needing a car for 1 yr and he put some new parts on it, got it inspected, and drove it trouble free.

New timing belt, clutch master and slave cylinders, tranny shifts perfect, and the rearend was gone through 10k miles ago. (Doesn't get any better than that for a donor)

$900 and you can drive it home...perfect uncut wiring harness too. :)


Edit: I have some 5-lug axles and 99 cobra spindles for a 5-lug conversion if you're interested too.

[blkp42e]

This is $$$$ tempting to buy and swap the drivetrain into my 93 LX. :madgrin:

do it you pussy :D

[Swarzkopf]

:lol:

I think that the swap is a bit above my head, so I sent Tim an email to get a rough idea of what he'd charge to do the swap. I honestly have no clue how many hours of labor a shop would charge for this.

[blkp42e]

shouldnt be that bad? I'd assume a wiring harness, and diff motor mounts and crossmember

[Swarzkopf]

I'm working on the wife. I need to convince her that 3 forced induction cars are better than 2.

[somethingclever]

I'm working on the wife. I need to convince her that 3 forced induction cars are better than 2.

what's your number? I'll call and talk to her. :cell::cell: :)

[Swarzkopf]

:lol:

[1Badbird]

You have a PM.

[somethingclever]

sold...thanks Jay

[1Badbird]

No problem John. Thank you for being so patient with him picking it up. He was so excited last night he had to bring it here so I could take it for a ride. It really does run good! It's going to make a great first car for him!