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What would you give up your Bird/Cat for?

Reply #15 –
If I could only fit one finger in it then the car would be gone.
One 88

What would you give up your Bird/Cat for?

Reply #16 –
Without a doubt, this:


1961 Corvette in Jewel Blue, a one-year-only color, total production of 855, extremely hard to find and fetching quite a price these days. My father owned one in the 1960's after he was in the Air Force. He dated my mom, then they got married, had me...and were forced to sell the car so they could buy the house where I grew up. I always told dad that if I hit the big time, that's the first thing I'd buy for him. Well...LOL...looks like I'll be saving up for another 30-40 years. ;)

What would you give up your Bird/Cat for?

Reply #17 –
I think Eric is the only person who understood :P :hick:

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Reply #18 –
Some of us have to much into our rides to let them go. There isn't any way my 84 turbo coupe is going any where. That is unless there is many many many many many stacks of $100. About 10 feet high each. I don't see that ever happening.
84 Turbo coupe 2.3T Modded with 88 upper and lower intake, 88 injectors, E6 manifold, T3-4 AR.60 turbo, 31X12X3 FMIC, Homemade MBC , Greddy knock off BPV.
4 eyes see better than 2! 
Da Bird!

FreeBird

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Reply #19 –
Quote from: Aerobird Motorsports;143148
I think Eric is the only person who understood :P :hick:



I understood.....

Just because some of us don't wet ourselves over over-priced muscle cars or the like, doesn't mean we didn't understand your intention.  Didn't it occur to you that some of us have these cars BECAUSE we like them?  The only car I would give the silver one up for is the silver car in it's final iteration.
Long live the 4-eyes!  - '83 Tbird Turbo - '85 Marquis LTS - '86 LTD Wagon-  '81 Granada GL 2dr

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Reply #20 –
It's not that it's an over-priced muscle car (which it's not), it's that it was my DAD's muscle car. I could care less about the OTHER 2,500 Mark Donahue Javelins made, I just want HIS old one. It was the first engine I had a hand in building, the first car I drove, and other fuzzy memories like that. It's THAT SPECIFIC CAR. It could have been a rusty clapped out truck for all I care, it's the MEMORIES I would be after. That is the ONLY car that left the family that I would EVER consider dumping my car for. I'd dump it if it meant getting grandpa's 68 AMX (11K miles, all original, he bought it in 68 new) or my dad's 68 AMX, but those are still in the family and will always stay in the family, so I wouldn't have to. I'm not even saying I would dump it for the Javelin, but if it magically appeared in my driveway and the owner said "Trade you straight up" I'd actually have to think about it.

What would you give up your Bird/Cat for?

Reply #21 –
I'd probably trade mine to any fool who wants to give me something WORTH twice(sellable) what I could build another for(Hey my time is worth money)...

RED TC shutters the thought...

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Reply #22 –
A couple cars I would get rid of both of my TCs for... yes that includes darkthunder. And they are both Stangs.

#1 - 85 Mustang GT w/T-Tops
Actually I would gut the 87 and use the powertrain in the Stang. 

#2 - 99-02 Cobra w/Saleen Body Kit
I actually thought long and hard about selling both and using the money as a down payment for one of these a few months back. I just didn't want the increased insurance and a monthly car payment again... at least not until my son starts first grade in two years. We will be in the new house, the wedding will be over and no more friggin daycare! I hope.

Then I'd buy another 83-86 TC for a project car. :D
2005 Subaru WRX STi|daily driver

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Reply #23 –
No one in my family ever had a cool car, or one that I would "love to have back".
Other than my brother, and my nephew on my wife’s side of the family, I'm the only “car guy”. To everyone else on both sides, cars are just transportation devices and they just don't understand why you need more than one. :confused:
My parents understand it better now, and one of the reasons is also one of the big issues they had when I bought my Cougar back in 1987. They just didn’t understand why I stored it in the winter. Well, here we are 20 years later….and they certainly understand why I stored it now. ;)

There are many cars that I would want, but if I had to give up my Cougar for another, it would be the car that I have lusted after since it came out in 1978.
A 1993-95 Porsche 928 GTS with a 5-speed.

Brent
:cougarsmily:
1985 Mercury Cougar XR-7 - 5-speed 
One of 1,246 built

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Reply #24 –
Nothing can ever take the place as my first car; thats why I never want to get rid of it.  The closest car to it would be my dad's first hot rod - his 67 Fairlane 289.

What would you give up your Bird/Cat for?

Reply #25 –
Quote from: Aerobird Motorsports;143148
I think Eric is the only person who understood :P :hick:
I understood quite well, but there are no cars in my history that I'd trade the 'Bird for. Sure, I'd love to have my beloved black Bertha back, or a reasonable facsimile, since I know the car has long been crushed (it was my first car, '78 Trans Am, WS6 suspension, LT1 350 installed in place of the original 400) but I wouldn't trade my Thunderbird for it. I'd love to have a '78 Ramcharger to restomod - my father had one and we all loved it, especially on fine days when he'd take the roof off - but I wouldn't give my Thunderbird up for one. I say "Restomod" because I'd love to put the '78 Ramcharger body onto a '94+ 3/4 or 1-ton frame with the cummins. I'd even like to have the '68 Olds 442 my father had that his eyes mist up every time he mentions it, but I have no fond memories of the car because I simply don't remember it (he traded it for a Caprice when I was about 1 year old). There are plenty of cars in my past that I'd like to have, and most of them are worth much more than my Thunderbird (the T/A, the '66 Galaxie 500, to name but two) but I simply don't have the attachment to them that I do to the 'Bird. I dunno if it's sad or not, that I had to wait until I was in my mid 30's before I found "my" car, but that is indeed the case. It's the first car that I had a "vision" for that I'm actually seeing through.
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 ♣

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Reply #26 –
The first "real" car is always the most important, and most of us still have it. If my first TC still existed I'd still have it (T-boned by a red light running drunk into a ditch). Second one too (a tornado threw a roof and a tree on it). Layla's my 3rd out of 32 so I'm doing the best I can :hick:

There are some I want back (my 83 TC, the 87 Code 33 TC) as well as some non-foxes (my 87 RX7) but I wouldn't give up any of the "current" crop for them (well, I'd give up the truck for the 83...). I DO want to find my first truck just for the grins of it, 1986.5 Nissan Hardbody King Cab. VIN #000409 :hick: It was 18 different shades of tan and I airbrushed a HUGE set of tribal flames on it in black/red! That poor truck got me through high school (I didn't get a TC till the first time I went to college). It had 187K when I bought it, the original Z24 dual-plugger and 5-speed put up with a LOT of teenage abuse. Went drag racing, sand duning, road rallying (won 2nd place!!), off-road JUMPING (blew out a tire I landed so hard once), and drug home COUNTLESS cars. It had 268K on it when my dad sold it while I was busy buying Layla (I left it to him when I moved away, I took the SHO). *sigh*

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Reply #27 –
The only vehicle that I would get rid of my cat for is my dad's '71 Mustang fastback. I grew up with that vehicle and when he had to sell it to keep his family in there house, lets just say it took some growing up before I forgave him.

That is the one vehicle I will always want no matter what happens in life.


This is the biggest picture that I have.
1987 Cougar XR7 5.0 SOLD
1992 Ranger 4.0
2018 Hyundai Elantra
2019 Ram Rebel
 

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Reply #28 –
Quote from: Aerobird Motorsports;143148
I think Eric is the only person who understood :P :hick:

In that case it would be the '68 427 GTE Cougar I owned back in '77-'78... They're six figure cars now(fully restored)... Only Cougar I've ever owned, defiantly spoiled me for life on buying Cats...

As far as first car.. Was A '57 Ford SW, don't want it... I'd defiantly swap the Bird for a nice example of my 4th car(or another of my 5th car, the Cobra Jet)... Fourth car was a '64 Galaxie 500 Fastback(a 63 1/2 Fastback would be OK too,  or a '66-'67 Fairlane or Cyclone)... shiznit their's a bunch of stuff I'd swap for...

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Reply #29 –
O.K.,if a Hemi Superbird costs more than a Ferrari,I'll take a Superbird with a 440 4bbl;.That knocks the price way down (still very costly),and I'll still like it.
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..