I was at a local swap meet this weekend and I ran into a man with a ton of mustang stuff, and a small pile of 2.3l turbo stuff. I started talking with him and he had a set of thunderbird GST effects wrapped up in cardboard. He showed them to me, they weren't the greatest. THey had quite a few cracks in them, and there were small chips/ pieces missing al throughout the side skirt and front bumper pieces.
They were marked $2000. I could not believe it, after talking with me he told me the lowest he would go would be $1800. Maybe its just be, but this seemed ridiculous. 1800 for a set of mediocre effects seems way way overpriced. I mean you can get a decent 87-88 thunderbird for $2000!
Just thought I would post and see what everyone else had to say.
If they were in excellent shape, I'd pay that for them.
Then I'd find someone who worked with fiberglass, and start making repops of them, not for a profit though.
These are very far from perfect. I talked to a man who does fiberglas repair and he explained that the pieces missing could be grafted in but its expensive and it is not nearly as strong as it was when it was made.
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I know GFX are freaking hard to find now, But come on... over 1k?
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hahaha yeah good luck to the guy finding a seller. I have a perfect condition never painted before set for the 83-86 and I can't even find anyone who'd pay $1000 for them. This guys asking 2000 for a mediocre set? He's on crack.
I have been thinking about those lately. :D
I turned down an entire running V-8 84 T-bird that was wearing a complete set (somewhat rough) of ground effects. Seller even had the front piece in the garage. Only wanted $1000 for the car. Could've got it for $800 probably.
I like the natural looks of the car.I've sold three sets of ground effects here on the forum.I just CAN'T put them on the Sport.I tried.......just couldn't do it.I think the Sport is happier without them.
Had the same thought, but maybe the vert could look vertier with them. lol
Thought I would post, I mean I have side skirts that I paid $250 for, which didn't seem unreasonable, but I thought 2k was a lot too. Just wanted to know I wasn't crazy. I really would like a set though... :(
Got my red bird with 'em already installed by PO. Whole car for $2000, and IT RUNS! Only had 49,500 on it too.
I LOVE the look it gives the car. Very NASCAR looking with the right wheels, if that's your thing. Left Coast looking with the right wheels if that's your thing. The wheels are what make the ground effects what you want them to be.
I see cars with different versions of these for sale for under $1000.
I think he's priced over double what they should be priced at, maybe even quite a bit more than double.
Vertier? :rollin:
wow...i could see $500 maybe but that's nuts!! which meet did you go to? i went to thompson, and lake compounce *bristol* CT sunday. picked up a set of springs for the stock car for $10, and a couple of bill elliott thunderbird models. didn't get to finish thompson. lake compounce was SWAMPED. found a svt lightning 5.4 v8 supercharger setup for $500.
It was at thompson. There was a set of scoops for the tc hood. I talked to the guy for a few minutes and he told me about the effects. They were inside his small trailer.
ooooh really you have, have you?
I've often thought I'd like to get a set for my Bird but there's no way I would pay that much for a set, especially a set that's not all that great. I know they're hard to find but I'd have a hard time justifying spending $1000.00 on a good set. I'm not saying they're not worth it but I just couldn't do it.
So, let me get this straight, he had his $10 scoops on display for sale and he had his "$2000 Ground Effects" hidden inside of a trailer? What was up with that? Could it be he didn't want guys looking at his price and laughing?
My only problem is.... putting them on, and not liking them after all that.
FLSTC,
He told me he was afraid of someone picking them up and breaking them... But judging by the condition, that had been done numerous times.
They look gross on these cars anyway. Doubly so for 87-88 T-birds/turbo coupes. They seriously "date" these cars in a major way. I think the design of the car was ahead of it's time and quite elegant. Putting the body kits on them make them look like trashy 80's memorabilia rather than something that could have been made into the 90's. They are all wrong for the design of the aero-birds.
The fox mustang GT suffers for the same reason. LX hatch > GT hatch imho and there is a reason you very rarely see GT ground fx on a notch.
Definitely with shame here. Just my opinion. But every time I see a GT foxbody I try hard but I can't get myself to like it.
I have to disagree. I think the GST effects make these cars look nice. They do look okay without them, but the effects add to them. There was a dealer borchure of a gst cougar/thunderbird in white with the white "bbs" wheels and it looked really cool.