Well I got the bird (previous thread). Smells like new car inside, runs great. No V8 power (3.8 in it) but can't complain. Think it might need shocks and struts but mechanically the rest of it is perfect. Will post up pics when I get a chance.
Only thing that doesn't work is the cruise, Dad said he didn't work when he got the car and only drove it 1 every 6 months so wasn't worried about it.
IMO the 3.8 is seriously inadequate in that car... at least my 93 was. Wanting to do a Supercoupe swap was what eventually led me to a Mark VIII - the way that car should've been built to start with. ;) It's great as basic transportation though.
The 3.8 was upgraded in the 96's. Still no powerhouse, but not as dogish as in the 93's. It will make for great daily transportation.
My 95 3.8 T-bird ran ok. It was just slow. Other than that the MN-12 is a pretty nice car.
Well I bought it fri, didn't drive till Sat and it has right at 300 miles on it today. I was hoping for gas milage, will fill up after work and see if I accomplished that much. I have a SC sitting in the junk I could rob harness + ecu out of. Some one already snagged the motor + blower.
I dig my MN-12 ...it's got its issues, but I wouldn't trade it for anything :-)
I had a nice pearl white '95 LX with the 4.6, was still pretty lame... Sold it after about nine months, never missed it...
Got a whopping 26 mpg. I have pics just haven't got them uploaded. Where I work now I can't bring my phone in, or flash drive, or any other removable media lol,
Highway driving? I managed 30+ mpg on the highway with my 3.8 95 T-bird. Now in the city it got between 18-19 mpg if I was lucky.
150 of it was highway (one way to and from) rest was around town stuff.
Also supreme moment of disappointment this morning, when I got the car dad said it was low on fluid but it was first time this happened in the 6 years he had it. I drove it the 150 mile trip one way and checked the fluids, everything was good. Got up this morning and there is some antifreeze under the car. Looks like it came from drivers side radiator some where. Some of the plastic fins on the end are wet, hoping it isn't leaking around the plastic/radiator area where they bend it to crimp it together.
Well that's the one good thing about those combination aluminum radiators with plastic tanks. You can yank it out, gently pry the tabs all out just a little, so they dont break, but you can get the tank off, might even be able to get a new gasket if you look hard enough, and more importantly, if it clogs, you can easily run baling wire or something through the tubes and clear it out. Did that to my crown vic, a radiator shop would probably have charged me $100 for a boil-out, and I did it for the ridiculously low price of freeeee
Bought a brand new radiator for the Mark VIII at Autozone for $129.... they even had it in stock. Took less than an hour to change it.
There are 2 birds back at home I can rob for free but just irks me that Dad had this for 6 years and had no issues. I drive it a week and it springs a leak lol. Oh well it is 16 years old, might be teen angst.
If it has a expansion tank just run it with the cap loose, won't cause a problem in cooler weather...
Some pics of the interior
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What is the official color of this seat btw, never seen one like it.
I had some of the body but let my niece play with my phone and now I don't lol.
There isn't a single dent on the car, will get an under hood shot also
That's light prairie tan. It's almost the same as mine (except I've got cup holders :-P)
Ya whats up with the cup holders, did I miss it by one year? Friend has 97 cougar and he has them....
Yep 97 was the only year to get the cup holders on the console instead of in the storage bin. I retrofitted the 97 style cup holders into my 95. You just need the top console tray, the cigarette lighter/ash try, and rear set vent tube from the 97 donor car. The only hard part is moving the cigarette lighter to the bottom of the center stack, which really is easy as long as you can solder.
I don't eat/drink in my cars but if a 97 comes along I'll c00ch it lol.