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Title: The final goodbye's for my '85...
Post by: 1WLD BRD on April 03, 2008, 07:50:04 PM
Welp, I've decided the '85 is too far gone to save, so I loaded her up on the trailer tonight.
Man it was a fun car, when I bought it in '99.  My first car...  This is the car that taught me how to swap drivetrains.  Hell I even wleded up all the swiss cheese holes and the A/C openings....

  I have been enjoying the XR-7 and T-bird too much to even look at the '85, so it has sat in that same shape for 3 years now.  I am sick of it sitting there rotting, so it is going to the junkyard in the sky...
I still have a few things I want to remove this weekend (8.8" diff, all trim and glass, and the TC hood) but it wont take long.
R.I.P...:toilet: :burnout:  :(
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb170/1WLDBRD/DSC04215.jpg)
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb170/1WLDBRD/DSC04216.jpg)
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb170/1WLDBRD/DSC04217.jpg)
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb170/1WLDBRD/DSC04218.jpg)
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb170/1WLDBRD/DSC04219.jpg)
Title: The final goodbye's for my '85...
Post by: CatCarMan2012 on April 03, 2008, 08:27:54 PM
I feel ya man.  My SC Sits in my driveway.  I can't let it go yet.  Its drive train is perfect (and a beast) and its a sound car .  Its got a bad case of cancer underneath.  I keep hoping a 92'ish Frame will roll my way and I can swap everything over.

(http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/6870/dsc0087tm6.th.jpg) (http://img241.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc0087tm6.jpg)
Title: The final goodbye's for my '85...
Post by: daminc on April 03, 2008, 08:30:03 PM
It's always a sad day when another one goes to the yard.

Nice trailer
Title: The final goodbye's for my '85...
Post by: tc² on April 03, 2008, 11:21:17 PM
Is that the silver/blue one that had ground effects?
Title: The final goodbye's for my '85...
Post by: GrannysBird on April 04, 2008, 12:02:52 AM
You have my sincerest condolences, it's always hard to let a loved one go.
Title: The final goodbye's for my '85...
Post by: Carpimp1987 on April 04, 2008, 01:39:25 AM
That sucks man at least sell the TC hood if its in good shape. Sorry to see it go but i am sure you can find 1 more later on.
Title: The final goodbye's for my '85...
Post by: baxo on April 04, 2008, 07:52:06 AM
Quote from: tc²;212460
Is that the silver/blue one that had ground effects?

 
No, it just had some panels off that one.. So.. while we say final goodbye to his 85, let's say final goodbye to parts of the 84 as well :hick:.
Title: The final goodbye's for my '85...
Post by: Cougar8775 on April 04, 2008, 08:55:08 AM
hey danzajax ya got any more pix of your sc? im interested in em since the one i have now is my first one and ive seen a few that looked really good.
Title: The final goodbye's for my '85...
Post by: 1WLD BRD on April 04, 2008, 09:23:45 AM
Quote from: baxo;212489
No, it just had some panels off that one.. So.. while we say final goodbye to his 85, let's say final goodbye to parts of the 84 as well :hick:.


not all of them...  you have the fenders, and I still have the front clip and quarter panels off of it, and tiallights, and other misc. parts.
Title: The final goodbye's for my '85...
Post by: baxo on April 04, 2008, 12:25:05 PM
Well that's good news :D
 
But it's a shame.. both our first cougars, joined as one, off to the junkers.. :(
Title: The final goodbye's for my '85...
Post by: BEARMAX on April 04, 2008, 02:55:22 PM
so when do i get to buy the body kit
Title: The final goodbye's for my '85...
Post by: 1WLD BRD on April 05, 2008, 02:27:15 AM
hahaha, you could prbably buy another convertible cougar for cheaper then I would ask for the GFX right now....  I have no intentions to sell them, as I am still on the hunt for another nice four eye.
Title: The final goodbye's for my '85...
Post by: BEARMAX on April 05, 2008, 10:47:19 AM
loads the rubberband gun and aims at rj's nipple........
Title: The final goodbye's for my '85...
Post by: Romeo2k on April 05, 2008, 05:51:44 PM
LMAO!

And sorry to see it go :-(, It was loved an cared for though.
Unlike so many fox birds and cats i see just thrown in the graveyard. :mad::mad::mad:
Title: The final goodbye's for my '85...
Post by: 1WLD BRD on April 12, 2008, 09:37:10 AM
Welp it is done....  I will post up the video and pics later this afternoon.

Got $360 for it...

you can hear the crunch when the forklift hits it...  he crumpled the roof!
Title: The final goodbye's for my '85...
Post by: Romeo2k on April 12, 2008, 01:33:35 PM
You video taped it being crushed? thats gonna be painful to watch...

And where did you take it that you got so much for it?
Title: The final goodbye's for my '85...
Post by: 1WLD BRD on April 12, 2008, 08:09:55 PM
he didnt crush it yet with me there, way to many people bringing cars in.  including a guy that drove in this '95 4.6L Cougar:
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb170/1WLDBRD/DSC04236a.jpg)
Wish I meet him coming in I would have bought it for more then he got for s..  (which was $260)

Cant get the video to upload, but here are the clips I cut from the video:
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb170/1WLDBRD/cougaratgrave.jpg)
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb170/1WLDBRD/deadcat.jpg)
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb170/1WLDBRD/deadcat1.jpg)
Should have kept that Mustang 8.8, considering I spent 4 days sandblasting it and and primering and painting it...
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb170/1WLDBRD/deadcat2.jpg)
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb170/1WLDBRD/deadcat3.jpg)
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb170/1WLDBRD/deadcat4.jpg)
and here she is in her final moments....
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb170/1WLDBRD/DSC04239a.jpg)
Title: The final goodbye's for my '85...
Post by: daminc on April 12, 2008, 08:55:29 PM
Thats sad, I must look away (sniff)
Title: The final goodbye's for my '85...
Post by: vinnietbird on April 12, 2008, 09:04:48 PM
It's pretty much all over wxcept the crying.That's how I felt when the literally drug the blue T-Bird (in the banner) up on the flatbed.I hated to see that car go.I built it from nothing,but,I had to keep telling myself that it'll live on through all of the donated parts that came from it.Ifixyawata took all of the H.O intake harness,fuel lines,computer,everything.Other parts went to other people,and the heart of it all is in my Sport along with the interior,taillights,and more.I still miss that old girl (those aren't tears,I have something in my eye).