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Game over, man! GAME OVER! (or: The End Of The Road...)

...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...
2015 Mustang GT Premium - 5.0, 6-speed, Guard Green - too much awesome for one car

1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

Game over, man! GAME OVER! (or: The End Of The Road...)

Reply #1 –
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
2015 Mustang GT Premium - 5.0, 6-speed, Guard Green - too much awesome for one car

1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

Game over, man! GAME OVER! (or: The End Of The Road...)

Reply #2 –
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?  :grinno:

Game over, man! GAME OVER! (or: The End Of The Road...)

Reply #3 –
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.
2015 Mustang GT Premium - 5.0, 6-speed, Guard Green - too much awesome for one car

1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

Game over, man! GAME OVER! (or: The End Of The Road...)

Reply #4 –
Carmen! You forgot to get the power steering cooler! Shame!  I see it in that last pic!
One 88

Game over, man! GAME OVER! (or: The End Of The Road...)

Reply #5 –
Quote from: Thunder Chicken;104191
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

I 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..
1980 birds X 3, 1982 bird, 1984 XR7, 1988 TC

Game over, man! GAME OVER! (or: The End Of The Road...)

Reply #6 –
Quote from: CougarSE;104194
Carmen! 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 :D

If 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.
2015 Mustang GT Premium - 5.0, 6-speed, Guard Green - too much awesome for one car

1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

Game over, man! GAME OVER! (or: The End Of The Road...)

Reply #7 –
I think we can finally call it dead:( :birdsmily: :(

Game over, man! GAME OVER! (or: The End Of The Road...)

Reply #8 –
:( Turbo Coupe R.I.P
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
1974 maverick lsx powered turbo car SOLD
1973 maverick Tijuana Taxi Tribute
1957 chevy LSX Turbo project (race car)
Owner of Joe Dirt Fabrication

Game over, man! GAME OVER! (or: The End Of The Road...)

Reply #9 –
RIP= Rest In Pieces