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Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: tbirdscott on July 01, 2012, 01:25:32 PM
88,000km lady owned, garaged stored never seen snow and rarely ever seen rain.

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/turbosprunt/Picture_or_Video_783.jpg)

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/turbosprunt/Picture_or_Video_784.jpg)

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/turbosprunt/_KGrHqJ_ngE-5nv2B2RBP7RbWUkN_48_20.jpg)

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/turbosprunt/_KGrHqR_l_E_rK7qh2QBP7RbTc2R_48_20.jpg)

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/turbosprunt/_KGrHqRHJDYE-9FFSE_4BP7RbM4EVw_48_20.jpg)

Noticed it yesterday, sent a deposit today. Will be picking it up in a week or two, gonna be a longer trip than the last one, will take some planning.

Excited excited!
Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: Beau on July 01, 2012, 04:38:32 PM
...where do you find these!?? lol

PS, don't go moose hunting with this one :P
Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: Sinista Chicken on July 01, 2012, 09:31:49 PM
Quote from: ThunderbirdSport302;393600
...where do you find these!?? lol

PS, don't go moose hunting with this one :P

I was gonna say the same thing on both counts, lol
Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: FirstBird on July 01, 2012, 09:57:32 PM
Man those seats look so soft, compared to these plywood boards they call seats in new cars these days.
Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: CoogarXR on July 01, 2012, 09:58:57 PM
Is that an 8-Track?
Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: tbirdscott on July 01, 2012, 11:23:39 PM
Quote from: CoogarXR;393623
Is that an 8-Track?

 
You betcha! :tg: With premium sound too! Gonna have to hit some garage sales lol

I dont think I will take this one outside in the dark, and having it appraised immediately.
Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: turbotrav on July 02, 2012, 12:33:03 AM
Congrats...

Wow...That is brown fox/box tbird!

Its funny back in the day my friend had a totally basic 81 Tbird, 200 straight six and all.  no ac!

Travis
Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: MY83T on July 02, 2012, 09:43:15 AM
thats a nice car! You going to keep/run the Metric wheels on there now?
Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: Chuck W on July 02, 2012, 11:39:30 AM
Well, it's certainly brown. :hick:

Looks nice and clean.  Grats.
Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: tbirdscott on July 10, 2012, 03:28:33 AM
Funny thing, premium sound but just an am/fm radio, guy said they ordered it that way, no power antenna, has a plastic plug in the switch hole. No keyless entry either, but it does have the tu-tone paint and rocker moulings added on. It is about as nice as the last one, couple things worse, couple things better but fairly even. Drives nice, lots of pep fun to run around in l, A/C works good! probably gonna spend a couple days down here on the island. Thinking of hitting the autowreckers :D

Driving a thunderbird just feels so 'right' you know what I mean?
Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: tbirdscott on July 10, 2012, 04:42:41 PM
(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/turbosprunt/photobucket-3688-1341951847304.jpg?t=1341951848)
Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: Beau on July 10, 2012, 06:05:51 PM
Gorgeous! Are those the metric wheels/tires too? They do look rather well with that car..
Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: Dansbirds on July 10, 2012, 06:33:44 PM
What an appropriate place to stop at. When I was a little kid we were on vacation and I made my parents stop at a Thunderbird Motel, somewhere in the midwest, absolutly horrid hotel but it said thunderbird and that worked for me. Hope your stay was a bit better.
Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: Sinista Chicken on July 10, 2012, 11:19:03 PM
How do you find these in that nice of shape.....I need to move to Canada....
Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: tbirdscott on July 15, 2012, 02:15:42 AM
The metric tires are as new as you can get without having a sticker on the tread, worth what I paid for the car... you can see on the sidewall the powdery residue that came out of them after a day of driving. The 78 year old owner said it has never seen snow or spent a night out of it's garage. I'm sure thats a bit of an exaggeration but I would eat steak off the floorboards they are so clean!

My gf's grandma wanted to take us out for breakfast, the diner was at the Thunderbird Motor Inn down the street, she didnt even notice till I pointed it out lol

Just for curiosities sake, this car has a steel front bumper. Which isnt rusty :p

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/turbosprunt/2012-07-14_00-26-23_750.jpg)
Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: V8Demon on July 15, 2012, 03:36:17 PM
Hot!!!
Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: gtyrant on July 17, 2012, 07:01:17 AM
Nice Tbird! I love it.

My 82 Town Landau :)
(http://shrani.si/f/47/Fn/1phnMMAF/052.jpg)
Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: tbirdscott on July 17, 2012, 09:40:39 PM
In Slovenia, very cool! is it a landau or a heritage?
Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: gtyrant on July 18, 2012, 01:40:15 AM
Town Landau.
Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: tbirdscott on July 20, 2012, 01:26:08 AM
Well I got around to polishing and waxing the bird today, really made that metallic paint 'pop' the colour change is unreal.

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/turbosprunt/1980%20Landau%20Thunderbird/1980%20Thunderbird/2012-07-19_20-21-13_6.jpg)

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/turbosprunt/1980%20Landau%20Thunderbird/1980%20Thunderbird/2012-07-19_20-21-22_144.jpg)

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/turbosprunt/1980%20Landau%20Thunderbird/1980%20Thunderbird/2012-07-19_20-20-21_436.jpg)

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/turbosprunt/1980%20Landau%20Thunderbird/1980%20Thunderbird/2012-07-19_20-18-15_537.jpg)

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/turbosprunt/1980%20Landau%20Thunderbird/1980%20Thunderbird/2012-07-19_20-22-45_340.jpg)

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/turbosprunt/1980%20Landau%20Thunderbird/1980%20Thunderbird/2012-07-19_20-18-32_338.jpg)

Put in new plugs, cap, rotor, and replaced the original 1980 wires too, huge difference, runs so smoooooth.
Title: 1980 Town Landau... again
Post by: Beau on July 20, 2012, 12:53:44 PM
, that is some good paint for being 30-some years old....it IS original paint, right?