It's a shame. Could have been a cool car if he hadn't parted it out.
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ya i know and it even had a rare skirt kit,that guy's an f'in idiot.
That guy has been selling TC parts for awhile. I think he's got a junkyard or something, because he has sold several rear ends, several engine/trannys, etc. He seems to specialize in TC parts, which to me would make him the opposite of an idiot. Most syards just crush their fox T-Birds and Cougars.
something makes me wanna go there and save it. :disappoin
$75 buy it now? That's awesome for the hood, header panel, spoiler, and skirts.
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nm, it's just for the hood. Still, decent price.
yeah, that sure is sad sight,... all alone, cold nights, no food no water...poor bird....:-(
Jesus... how do all of you know it doesn't have rust in the subframes or it isn't damaged beyond repair. Granted these cars are getting harder and harder to find, but on ebay last week there were SEVENTEEN fox birds for sale. Some of them HAVE to be parted out so we can keep driving our own cars seeing as how there is no source for a lot of the parts.
i think it looks sweet gutted like that. it would make a delightfull lawn ornament...lol
I rescued my cougar from the s yard, It was lonely very lonely it cried out "plz take me home!" So I did and we are best friends now.
Aside from my ranting. There are a few fancy foxes at my local goldmine that I wouldn't have ever junked. Most notably a full option 84 elan. And three turbo coupes. I've started to buy all the parts I can afford just to keep them from getting crushed.
I just saved a 85 t bird from a life of rusting away in a drive way.
The 500 bucks i pent to save this poor lost bird was well spent.
It helps i sold the 5L and AOD tranny for 500 to a buddy.
One Kat dies so another Bird can fly free
If its a original Arizona car, there won't be enough rust in it to cover a dime...
Here on the VA east coast I've only seen(owned)two rusty Birds... One junker from Michigan and another from Pennsylvania with minor rust...
No i've seen this guy for the last 3 months or so posting parts from this bird.
He bought it at an auction and it was pretty nice before he started parting it(needed a little tlc) he just didn't want it and wanted to make money on parting it,he even stated in his previous auctions that he would not sell the hole car and only wants army vehicles and trucks.
He does not have a bird wrecker and is not at all interested in the preservation of these cars or fox bodies,just the money he can make, so yes he is an idiot.
He's on of those hicks you hear about that lives out in the desert on his own and drives beat up 4x4 ary surplus vehicles.
kind of like the cousins on natioal lampoons summer vaction to wally world. :giggle:
He only had one? How did he get all of those disc-brake 8.8" rear ends then? I've seen him sell about a dozen of 'em, and he would even offer your coice of disc or drum, 7.5 or 8.8", etc... At least I think it's the same seller...
Regardless, as much as we all hate to see a 'Bird or Coug die, if they didn't die we'd have no parts to keep ours on the road. What seems like a nice car to us is only an obscure 80's beater to most others (Don't believe me? Try selling your car for what YOU think it's worth), and what we in the north see as a "mint" car would be a run-of-the-mill worn out junker in the southwest. People throw cars away down there for having faded paint, while up here we hang onto 'em until long after they should've been taken off the road due to rust.
It works both ways. Most of us wouldn't look twice at a second-generation Prelude, but I know a guy (a co-worker) who drools over them. When I was looking for info on my Dakota I found a messageboard much like this one with members who loved their trucks every bit as much as we love our cars (how, I'll never know - think a 3.8 'Bird is bad? Try on a 3.9/auto/4WD Dakota. 0-60 is only possible downhill). Lotsa people like Cherokees, there are J-Body websites galore, and if you need more proof, consider these two words: Street Kiaz. There is actually a messageboard devoted to Kias. 'nuff said.
The only thing that makes me mad about seeing T-Birds being parted out is that they are never close enough to me to buy parts off 'em. Our local junk yards crush anything older than 10 years.
ThunderChicken said it best. We ALL need parts for our car... are you willing to give yours up for parts? It's not such a big deal if one bird has to die off if it helps 4 or 5 other bird owners get thier cars in better shape. This guy is far from an idiot. He's making all the parts available to us enthusiasts, not keeping it all intact in hopes of a better yield for s metal. Pictures can't show you what damage the car's endured either, even if there's no rust, there could be other things. Maybe it was involved in an accident and is full of Bondo... who knows? I tore my old Cougar apart when I realized it was too far gone. The car was probably a one of a kind. I know I'll never find another one like it and it would be a huge undertaking to try to MAKE one like it. I, nor anyone else on this board, I bet, had seen the wierd combo of options this car had, but there was absolutely no point in putting more money into it, so I took it apart and got most of the good stuff out of it, which wasn't much.
/Rant
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Yea I'm so "buried" in my Bird, I'll probably have to use it as a coffin one day. :hick: Seriously, there ain't much interest in these Birds, I'd be lucky to get $3000, but I wouldn't sell it for twice that much..
Also remember, I just bought a '88 5.0 Bird that has fresh engine and tranny, TC front brakes and rear end, along with a bunch of go fast mods.. Has over $7000 in receipts, my cost??? $1700...
finally,, wondered when you would up with it.
not bad, not bad
not for all the goodies.
Yea I'd figured you had been in suspence long enough... :evilgrin:
Ifixyawata,
Think you could fill us in on what the options were on that car?
:giggle: Ya i hear that i work as a tech at a chyrsler dealer and we have one gut with an 87 long box 3.9l dakota that just won't let it go and the thing could be pushed faster than it drives :grinno:
And i realize some birds must die,it sucks i almost cried when i had to s my old bird due to rust(was well stripped by me before hand)i had spent 800cdn to replace the front rotted frame rails only to find out afterwards when the rear end shifted that the rear fram and torgue boxes were even worse.
After hearing the 3000.00cdn price tag to re fab a new rear frame i figured it was time to look for a new one and thank god i did as now my 87 mint no rust 5.0ho converted TC was a find i never would have found had i not been looking.
And after 100s of hr's in swap work making her just like my last bird(less the rust :rollin:) i would never sell her no matter the $ figure.
However being partial to black bird's seeing this one from before being parted to now sitting on it's frame really sucks but i guess there's not much i can due other than to wish i could do this to that guy :flame: :giggle:
I can relate to the rusty bird syndrome. I had to sell my '87 Sport due to rust. Ther frame and floor were perfect, but the rear quarters, rockers, doors and fenders were all ROTTEN. It was a big shame because the car only had 140,000km on it (85,000 miles) and it had all the goodies: Full digital, trac-lok rear, floor shift, auto climate control, dual power seats, etc. I did start to fix it up (put a TC hood on it, two brand new fenders) but in the end I had to say goodbye. I didn't part it out, though, I sold it whole and the guy I sold it to fixed it up and was still driving it as of last summer.
Also like you I ended up better off. It took two years but I found a MINT 1988 5.0 'Bird with only 47,000 miles on it. It didn't have the Sport goodies, and it didn't look as good in white as the Sport did in silver, but it is a far better car. I've taken care of some of the lack of options (I've installed a TC cluster, full console, 10-holes, fog lights, sequencers and stereo system) and I'm even soon gonna be adding some neat stuff the Sport never had (Tripminder, overhead console with digital compass and temp, digital bar graph gauge trio for volts, tranny temp and tranny oil pressure, LED tail lights). It's a far superior car to the old Sport, but I still miss that Sport...
5.0 car with white exterior, light gray vynil interior. Standard 2- radio, no casette, A/C, Cruise, Tilt, Sunroof, Full-Size spare, no power trunk or gas door release, a SINGLE driver's side manual mirror, it had a blank out plate over the passenger's side, it had crank windows, too. The place where all the switches usually go in the center console was empty. Didn't even have a light in the center console compartment or the glove box.
My bird is my daily driver right now but i think since ,in such nice condition with only 80 000km's on it i think i'm gonna park it winters and get a beat up bird or cat for next winter.
There's a guy here in the oakville area that has a used car lot and has been trying to sell this 86 t-bird 3.8l with a digital dash and only 163 000km's on it for 500 bucks for like a year,always been curious to stop in and look at it.
As for my last bird,any and all salvaged parts that were needed for my 5.0ho swap were taken along with my mint replaced front fenders,headlamps,tails etc.
It was just an empty shell when it went to bird heaven.
Sold my first Cougar (red 87 with red interior V6) back to my stepfather who was the original owner (had to sell it for $1 otherwise NY will hit you with a gift tax). He drove it for amother year or so then soldit to this guy he knew who wrecked it bout three months after that. Darn shame. All original paint, no rust, no scratches, spotless interior (Interior was real dirty, but undamaged when i sold it back. My mother used SOMETHING to clean it and it looked like it did in the showroom. Still don't know what she used...) I often wonder what a red interior would look like in a black cougar. If I had thought about it back then I coulda swapped in the red for free.
My black TC has red interior,always loved the red interior in the TC.
Very clean no fading,had window tint on it when i bought it and it saved the seats from the uv rays,i'll post some pics if i can get around to it.
Same interior as a loaded xr7.
Wonder why they don't have red interiors in cars any more?