Does anyone have a good story about how they found / fell in love with their thunderbird or cougar?
i was actualy... looking for a camaro when i found a my first turbo coupe 5speed and was spellbound. i worked every day overtime to get that car (which was MINT...) i'v been hooked from then on (4 years ago)
It was March of 1999 when I saw my Thunderbird while cruising around looking for my first car. I saved and saved for months for the big day when it was time to buy a ride.
We rolled up to a used car lot under the traintracks. It was closed but through the fence we saw a great looking two-tone blue 87 Thunderbird. It looked like a land yacht to me, but I really wanted it.
The next day I bought her for something like $400.00. Not bad! I've been in love with the car since then.
Chris
I found my first Cougar in a Local paper for cheap and felt in love with them... :)
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i was looking for a car. and my brothers wife is a mail lady and spoted my cougar on her route(wasnt mine at the time) for sale me and my brother whent up to look at it i had the money in my pocket and paid cash 1300. only a few small problems like the windows didnt go down and they were off the track. and ever since then . time has told and will tell
mom told me bout a cougar when i was looking at a pontiac wagon. so i looked at it and as soon as i saw it i was hooked and that was about a year and a half ago.
When i first saw it in my grandmothers driveway when i was about 5 eversince its been an obsession with domestics and BIG engines and oldies. I have always felt that the cougar nameplate deserves more publicity than it has gotten.
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naa i just got tired of getting bounced around in my mustang..it was tearing the A$$ out of me.it was the closest thing to driving a MACK truck!! anyway after i crashed it i desided to find something with a little better ride and i like cougars and found the one i wanted.. ie a V8 car, good body and no motor and tranny and payed $800.00 and so i swaped all the parts from my mustang to the cougar.."motor transmission and rear"
My uncle tells me he talked to this guy he works with and says he has a thunderbird with 2000 miles on it. He said it was in perfect condition. One day he says lets go look at it we go. We get in and I said, it's not in perfect condition. We are looking at it and everything. After 10 minutes my uncle goes, how much did you want for it again? $450. We'll take it. thats how I got my first car. 1993 Ford Thunderbird. Needed some work, but most of that is done.
my cougar was just true love. my dad had me take it to auto because i needed something to work on. he just bought it for $110. the brakes didnt work, it needed a new door, window, taillights, trunk, ect.i spent over $400 on it just in matenance. after that it sat for almost a year. that christmas all i got a chiltions with the title inside. happiest christmas ever!
my father sold the car he was originally going to give me, so he bought this thunderbird for me, i originally hated the thing, thought it was ugly, slow, i outright didnt want it...then i found the old ezboard and saw the other cars, saw the potential, started liking the car, then started doing things to make the car more the way i wanted it
To put it briefly, I was 6 years old when my dad bought his '84 in late '83 or early '84. Loved the 83-88 Cats ever since.
When the '87 came out (I wasn't 10 yet), I didn't like it at first. I thought it was too "bubbly." Then it grew on me quick and ended up being my favorite style over the '83-'86. I still like the '83-'86 cats though, '85 and '86 better because of the interior. My mom saved crayon drawings I did of Cougars when I was in elementary school. I now have them with my other Cougar memorabilia.
The '89s came out and, I uh, wasn't too fond of them.
Went with my parents looking for a first car for me since my sister pretty much destroyed the '85 Dodge Colt Vista I would have gotten. Looking at just about everything...even had a 70's f-bird TA we almost went for, but didn't feel right. Someone my sister knew from school had "a 'Bird" for sale, went to take a look. She followed me home, I fell in love doing a heater core and water pump in the dead of winter. Then I found the messageboards, and found out there is no performance stuff for my engine. :yuck: Still love her though.
My sister was the first one to own a cougar, we went cruising in it every weekend :cool: Then the car started to get a little old and rusty for her so my mom ended up using it, I never even payed that much attention to the cars. Then one day driving along I saw an 87 XR7 sitting in the grass It looked so low! love at first site! The next day I tolled my BF that that car was mine and I didnt care how we got it! so we went back to look at the car and saw it had the V8, we took a test drive and he loved it too :D Happy ending!
Except one part.. about one month later the trans went and we couldnt go past 30mph :mad: Then we hit 2 deer with it! But thats okay because everytime something bad happened to it it just made me like it more and have more modivation to make it better ;) And I paid to much but I rarly see a decent xr7 here so its still okay.
I was looking for my first car and wanted a relatively large, two door, V8. I was leaning towards a Monte Carlo, Trans Am, (ducks), an older mustang, or other musclecar. I found a nice '79 Silver Anniversary Trans Am, but it was priced a little high and wouldn't be practical for a daily driver. I couldn't find a decent Monte, and the '80s Trans Ams I found, I didn't like as much as I thought I would. My mother was looking in the classifieds and said, "How about this? 1987 Cougar LS, V8, PW, PL, AC, $2000" So I went with my father to look at it. With the whitewalls on it and being two tone brown I wasn't so sure at first. I hopped in and loved the size and comfort, so we took it for a spin...literally :D It had bad injectors and after a little bit, would die all the time. It also had illegally bald rear tires. I hobbled it in and we went home. Thought about it overnight and knew I had to have it. My father contacted them and worked them down to $1700 with 2 legal rear tires and all the problems fixed. I went to teh bank and got a $2000 loan (registration, etc. brought it up to $2005 even) and took it home. THey put it in the garage for a while and at this time (middle of a cold and snowy December in Minnesota) as soon as they took it out the windows completly fogged over. As soon as I had a 2"x5" patch to see out of and a little from teh sides I took it home. That was probably the scariest and stupidest drive home ever, but I only had to go through 2 little towns. Drove it that way for the rest of my junior year then put on the Cooper Cobras. Incidently, those old Cooper Lifelines with very little tread were better in the snow than the Cobras.
Well Original I had the puppiesanese sport car and Luxobarge hot rod bug back in the early teens, being inspired by a 82-84 Metallic tan/brown Toyota Supra, and a 87-88 Olds 442 at the GM dealears used car lot at the other end of my block. Then in 1993 (I think) my mom picked up the brown 86 LS one day, with rust and crippled exuast, I was not impressed and not in league with fords. When I got my license it was a pain to drive, and shoulder checking was near impossible.
Then my mom got that 91 Caddy Deville and the Cougar was mine. And by my sophmore? year of high school I was driving it around with the factory locking hubcaps, white walls n' all. And after beating it around mostly power sliding and skidding around in snow, I started to appreciate it more, and the body has grown on me since, although the 3.8 was hidiously underpowered, and needed some sand or gravel to get a burn out going. Then in 2002 with 232XXX km's on it was the end. Started burning smoke and chugging a quart of oil per week, and that was the end for the LS. Parking it as I had no money and Took out a Student loan for Collage.
well, my story is like mansons...i too was looking for a slowmaro. as a kid i always wanted one. never even heared of a thunderbird. my dad wasnt realy a car guy and hated ford. after 3 days of looking around for my first car my mom and dad were pretty sick of me being stubbarn. they didnt want me to have a camaro or certainly not a mustang. i didnt want an ancient barge, or piss ant piece of trash car so we were headed home with nothing. then there was this turbo coupe on the side of the road, facing us with a for sale sign in the windshield. i was like lets look at that one. i looked at it and fell in love. it looked kind of like a mustang but different, better i thought. the scoops were neet. the guy came out after a few minuts of looking at it and told us a little bit about the car. as soon as he said 4cyl i was bumbed...i certainly didnt want a friggin 4 cyl. i knew almost nothing about cars at the time. and a stick...i didnt know how to drive a stick...so we went home. i thought about it some and told my dad screw it i needed a car and i can learn stick. he said you realy want that? its a ford bla bla bla. well, we went back and he drove it for me. never reved it or even realy hit the power curve of the turbo hard. it drove solid, made no noise and seemed to be a decent car. so we bought it. it didnt take long to figure the whole stick thing out once i was left alone with it. after playing around with the car i realy figured out how to "drive". it didnt take long to figure out that the car screwed, was a hell of alot of fun and all without a V8. it impressed my friends and was prety much the fastest car in the school. my love for these cars happened pretty much by accident. ive had several since and now i have another. bought cheap soley for a project car this will be my first that wont be relied on as a daily driver. hopefully i can hold on to this one....lol
I got mine for free from a friend leaving the country. I like it lot even though the previous owners mis-treated her alot. I've started fixing her up but most of my money still goes in to my '67 Mustang. There great compliments to each other and I love driving both of them.