my bumper and header panel on my bird is trash all busted u but have been having trouble finding birds being parted out or in the jy's the last time i went i only found 1 tbird but the bumper was beat up too but i saw a few clean cougars and was wondering if i can throw 1 of those on my bird or do they bolt on diffidently?
It should be direct bolt on but the front ends swapped just look very funky.
funky isn't the word i'd use.. lol but it's a direct bolt on.. remove the badging, cut the roof off and take the front end off and birds/cougars are identical, side by side.. PM dougy fresh, he's parting out a few cars.. he may have all of what you need
lol yea it would look kind of weird huh idk just a thought
what other front ends would fit and look good on an 86 4 eyes?
aaah, she's a 4 eyed bird.. any 83-86 header/bumper will look good.. i don't think an 87-88 aero from end would look very good with the overall flow of the car.. and the impact moldings won't line up correctly
Surprise butt shag with caddilac
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Plus 100 mile commute on your only car, and and old broken down 87 cat missing an engine
Equals
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Total time, about 2 hours. Didn't even have to swap out any light bulbs.
In my opinion a 4 eyed cougar front end on a four eyed tbird body is the epitome of fox style.
blah.. bird/bird all the way
Heck, I thought the cougar and bird 4 eye headers were the same till I bought a 4 eye cougar and realized that not a single headlight surround or grille would fit between the cougar and bird.
Heh I learned that lesson a few years ago when I sold a pair of Tbird headlight buckets to a dude with a 4 eye Cougar on craigslist. When we met up I held them up next to his car and had an oh shiznit moment. He ended up buying them anyway though.
Heck yeah it'll work:
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I love my Thundercat. I've actually come to like it more than the old front end. Oddly enough still haven't painted it but people keep telling me to leave it as is and like the two colours, lol. It's got a personality for sure.
lol it doest look half bad and sounds cool as a thundercat
Till guys at your work start screaming THUNDERCATS HHHHOOOOO! Everytime you pull up.
Oddly enough I've never had anyone at all even mention or give it much notice that its two cars, heh. They just notice the colours.
lol i uste to love that show when i was a youngster
so i finally found a bird with a complete front end and a 86 to boot now just gota sand it down and shoot it black to match the rest of my car
Yea, its a bit more obvious on the 87-88 front end, its got the giant cat head on the grill and has mercury and cougar cast in the bumper cover. I actually liked the headlights a0better, because they were much more clear. The wreck always pissed me off though. Car pulled right in front of me, I saw him, but he sped up quite a bit, then he layed on the brakes and turned right in front of me. I am still convinced there were no brake lights, but it was my fault, and I shouldn't have been following so closely.
The funny thing is the butter they make those caddi's out of. I went straight through his trunk, and smashed the back door in on the drivers side. My bumper braket weld broke. The shock obsoarber never even moved, and most of the damage was done with the fender, and just a touch on the rad support. If the bumper wouldn't have broken, I am sure I would of driven home.
I actually really like the 87-88 bird front end on the 83-86 bird.
^^^^^THIS!! God I love that look
More pics plz. It's the two parts I like best put together, the Cougar front end and the Thunderbird back end.
Thanks so much guys! Glad you like it! Uploaded various photos of it I ripped off my Facebook real quick. She isn't cleaned up in them like that one up there but its at least some more angles.
http://s1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd376/86thundercat/Thundercat/ (http://"http://s1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd376/86thundercat/Thundercat/")
I agree, that does look pretty good. I'd love to see in all the same color, and take those Mercury badges off.
That may be something I do eventually if I get a 4 eye Bird. Just remove the Cougar emblem from the header panel, and maybe put a little bird where the Mercury was on the grille and most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference haha.
oh that's hot :tbirdbang::catbang: ....I don't know which one to use so you get both lol
Thanks everyone! I DO plan on painting it still. It has a lot of prep work to go through first though and I want to do it right so I've been putting it off until I have the time and resources to mess with it. Going to be painting it all black for a nice blacked out look with a small touch of chrome.