The guy I bought my Fairlane from just drove to New Richmond, WI and saved an '87 Turbo Coupe 5 sp./ sunroof/ grey in color w/ blue interior, etc... from going into the crusher. I would have done the same thing. This car is complete minus headliner (I'll get to that in a bit) and turbo coupe door molding inserts, runs but with injector issues, and has mint 16" snowflakes. Only rust I saw was a bit of bubbling at the bottom of the quarter panel, and it had some minor hail damage. Oh, and missing the shift .
It just amazes me what people are willing to bring in for s these days. Out of pure laziness or to make a quick buck I s'pose, but WTF?
The car I have has a sunroof blue headliner, so I'll be pulling that out and giving it to him for his "new" car. The grey headliner I have, which matches the rest of my interior parts, is a non-sunroof headliner, and came from an XR7. So I'm thinking I could cut the hole out for the sunroof, and maybe do some tpuppies on the back half to match it to the Tbird's dimensions. Anyone else do anything like this? This light grey interior, is not the raven color, so I'm not sure I'll find another headliner too easily.
I say it should work.. use you sunroof liner as a template.
That's the plan. I think the Cougar liner is longer due to the rear window, so it should work, knock on wood.
Great save!
I think there's a difference in the way the headliners fit, in regards to sunroof vs non-sunroof. Or maybe that's the sliding moonroof. Maybe a sunroof isn't as "deep"...?
Let me know how it turns out :D
Yup, this was going into the crusher.
That was going to get crushed? Wow.....
Well worth saving it appears. Nice work preserving a TC!!
Nice save!
:bowdown::bowdown::bowdown: awesome save :D
hey its a twin to mine.... Unless you put a red bumper cover on it then its a twin. But nice save.
Wow unbelievable after seeing the picture that was going to get crushed! You have been chosen!
I didn't get it, somebody I know did. But as he was telling me how he got it, I was thinking nice save. If he merely told me about it, I would have drove down and got it myself, money or no money right now, lol.
With s prices on the rise again, it doesn't surprise me everyone's trying to get what they can for anything they have.
IKR!!! I saw a near mint 83 tbird at the JY in december and I was like man what a waste then I saw the 85 tbird that looked like there was nothing wrong with it till someone trashed it at the JY and there on the windshield said CARS :shakehead