Game over, man! GAME OVER! (or: The End Of The Road...) September 16, 2006, 03:52:36 PM ...for my parts TC, that is. I finished stripping it today. Got the rear end, gas tank, exhaust system (it had brand new Flowmasters on it) and the rear springs. There are now no more usable parts on it.Before:Now:In this one you can see the van that holds my 351:For those of you with aftermarket sunroofs, beware - you're probably missing an important support (the installer simply cut right through it in this car):...And the reason this car was killed:Next stop: The smelter. The guy that owns the land the shell is sitting on will crush it with his front end loader and sell the s metal (he'll do the same thing with that red van once I get the engine and tranny). It'll then be melted down and made into hubcaps or something... Quote Selected
Game over, man! GAME OVER! (or: The End Of The Road...) Reply #1 – September 16, 2006, 03:56:37 PM Let me tell you, BTW, that having the car on its roof is the ONLY way to remove a rear end :hick: I had that sucker out in about 1 half hour Quote Selected
Game over, man! GAME OVER! (or: The End Of The Road...) Reply #2 – September 16, 2006, 04:17:35 PM Your topic title is straight from....Robot Chicken :D .Nice job there. What are you doing with those parts? Sellin em, usin em, or both? Gettin rid of those snowflakes? Quote Selected
Game over, man! GAME OVER! (or: The End Of The Road...) Reply #3 – September 16, 2006, 04:26:40 PM I've kept just about everything. I sold the engine/tranny after I decided that I had enough projects and a 2.3t Ranger wasn't in the cards. Sold a few small parts on eBay, promised a few parts to Thundergrowl (PRC struts/shocks/controller, console), and the rest I am keeping in one of my sheds. Seriously, there's almost enough in that shed to build another car: Doors, fenders, hood, header panel, the red interior out of my '88, steering column, the old springs/struts/shocks/spindles from my '88, glass, a complete uncracked blue dash (this was in the back seat of the TC when I bought it), driveshaft, the sunroof, the rear end (soon to go in the '88), the gas tank, radiator, alternator, and so on...The snowflakes aren't for sale - they're getting treated to the patented "Thunder Chicken Wheel Restoration" (except I'm gonna paint 'em white instead of clearcoating them) and going on the '88. Quote Selected
Game over, man! GAME OVER! (or: The End Of The Road...) Reply #4 – September 16, 2006, 04:35:52 PM Carmen! You forgot to get the power steering cooler! Shame! I see it in that last pic! Quote Selected
Game over, man! GAME OVER! (or: The End Of The Road...) Reply #5 – September 16, 2006, 04:37:15 PM Quote from: Thunder Chicken;104191Let me tell you, BTW, that having the car on its roof is the ONLY way to remove a rear end :hick: I had that sucker out in about 1 half hourI agree, I did that when I was stripping my 86 tc, except it was on its roof on the side of the road and we used a logging truck to tip it :grinno: , got the tranny, rear, exhaust, sway bars, shocks/struts out that way.Oh and the rear took me about 4 hours as all the bolts were rusted to the steel collars in the controll arms.. Quote Selected
Game over, man! GAME OVER! (or: The End Of The Road...) Reply #6 – September 16, 2006, 06:24:27 PM Quote from: CougarSE;104194Carmen! You forgot to get the power steering cooler! Shame! I see it in that last pic!Probably because I've got a police-spec tube-and-fin cooler in my T-Bird :shakeass:I got it from a wrecked Crown Vic. I've also got an enormous tranny cooler in there :DIf sombody wants it I could certainly still get it, but really, it's just a piece of tubing. I can't see it doing much cooling...Quote from: tbirdscott Oh and the rear took me about 4 hours as all the bolts were rusted to the steel collars in the controll arms..I had that same problem with one control arm bolt in the front. One bolt took me two entire hours to get out. Quote Selected
Game over, man! GAME OVER! (or: The End Of The Road...) Reply #7 – September 16, 2006, 06:28:15 PM I think we can finally call it dead:( :( Quote Selected
Game over, man! GAME OVER! (or: The End Of The Road...) Reply #8 – September 16, 2006, 10:14:34 PM :( Turbo Coupe R.I.P Quote Selected
Game over, man! GAME OVER! (or: The End Of The Road...) Reply #9 – September 16, 2006, 10:16:21 PM RIP= Rest In Pieces Quote Selected
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