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300,000 (almost)

I just found some records of my car by the vin # online..... My car had 267,000 miles on it 3 years before I got to it. I called up the place and asked about the records and the had them all the way from 120,000 to the 267,000 miles. And yes, my car is still on the origonal engine! :banana: So I am right around 297,000 miles(gee I wonder why it dosent run ;) )
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

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Sweet. I'd like to get all the records on my car before I got it. It went to 194,000 with the original motor. It still ran halfway decent when I swapped it out so who knows how long it may have gone. But it was leaking way too much oil and I wanted to try for more hp so...

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one too many zeroes in the title.. :p

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shut up
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

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Reply #4 –
now I got the little edited thingy.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

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Edit is your friend. :ies:

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just flipped 300,000 km in my t-bird last week. Wanted to video tape it with my camera but I was late for work and I forgot :( already up to 600 almost
1980 birds X 3, 1982 bird, 1984 XR7, 1988 TC

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My old 87 XR7 had over 350,000 miles on it when I got rid of it. Motor ran great still, but the body, or lack there of, was pretty rotted. When we stripped it, found out the pass. front frame rail was rotted in two, right behind the shock tower. :hick:
95 Ranger Splash 2.3
88 Tbird Sport :ies::ies:
5.0 SO, stainless shorty headers, w/ Magnaflow lers. KYB struts, KYB shocks. 5lug conversion from sn95 Mustang, subframe connectors, drilled and slotted rotors, 03 Mach 1 wheels. sequential taillights.140 speedo
 

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297,000 Miles ???? Wow, that is very much miles . Many trips and laps around the earth eh ?...

My car has,mmm, i dont know, my odometer resets every time when the car is turned off (or thirty kilometers when is running), but with this engine, 2,000 kilometers is much. I dont use very much the car.....

My old Cougar get past the 345,000 miles (i  still have the odometer, car aquired when it had 80,xxx miles and three laps after...) and without a rebuild, and was in pretty good shape when it crashed...



Hey Hasytack, what is the problem with the car now ?
1985 Mercury Cougar V6
1989 F-200 V8
1996 Explorer V6
2001 F-150