http://www.ksl.com/?nid=218&ad=37178422&cat=&lpid=1&search=cougar&ad_cid=6
Car looks okay and price seems more then fair. I was tempted to call as I have an extra 3.8 t-5 and supposedly a 351 flywheel bolts right up. 120 miles from me.
If anyone wants to save this car and contacts the owner, please let me know.
That's too far away for me. Probably a steal for someone though.
I've seriously though about calling a few times. I've had bad luck with every 3.8 car I've had and I much prefer the 86 cars, but this would make a good swap candidate to replace my rusty 324k mile car. I just don't really have a need or place for it.
I even thought about driving down with someone with some tools and swapping in a t-5 sans clutch pedal (only part I'm missing) and driving it home with no clutch. Bet even just hooking the TV cable back up with wire would limp it home.
Would be a sweet base for a whole drivetrain build.
Sounds like it might limp home in the state its in. As you said, maybe the cable fell off. If not and its simply almost spent...just adjust that sucker all the way tight for maximum pressure and let off the gas on each shift. It'll grab those gears LOL
My bet is all but 1st and 2nd are burned up with alot of slipping. I've towed cars home a few miles, but 120 miles would be miserable. I'd rather just throw a stick in at the sellers driveway. Would be quicker if ya just jumped the nss and started it in gear to get going, rev matches the gears and get it home without all the extra effort of a pedal swap. Dropping the auto can be done in an hour and swapping in the stick shift only takes 20 mins. With a straight freeway run, it would be worth the effort.
I drove my tbird for 3 months with a busted clutch cable when I busted the motor mount and it cut through the cable as the motor slammed down.
Drag car/burnout machine :burnout:
One by one....we will bring all of these cars into the muscle-car status they deserved. MOAR HORSEPOWER ALL THE THINGS!!!
That's the idea :burnout:
I've done a Thunderbird. Now there's only thousands more to go :hick:
Is it bad I want to turbo my DD Focus?
There's some high-school or college-age girl driving around grandma's two-tone brown 87/88 bird. They've got the classic muscle-car fast-back look. I want a birdie now too LOL
Tu-tone brown is the worst of the tu-tone colors :hick:
I actually quite liked my two tone brown bird.
The best tu-tone color combo, in my opinion, is the 87 Light Regatta Blue Metallic / Medium Shadow Blue Metallic combo. The Silver / Smoke Metallic color combo on my Thunderbird is nice but no where near as nice as Light Regatta Blue Metallic / Medium Shadow Blue Metallic.