If you have $5k burning a hole in your pocket you can buy this unknown engine, unknown option Thunderbird with 110K on the clock: http://chicago.craigslist.org/sox/cto/4098473436.html
Man I should paint mine and sell it for that money!
When did our cars become antique? "This antique Ford T-Bird is in mint condition with 110,000 miles."
It's got my rims! I've seen that one before, it's a 3.8.
That's the kind of thinking that's got our country in its current state. Sad but it seems there is quite an abundance of voters and politicians for whom they vote that have similar ways of thinking as that seller.
What a bargain. $2000 off the first price.
I don't know what evryone paid for there's but my 87 lx just like that one with 90k miles was 1500
I don't know. At 25 years old the state let me put antique vehicle plates on mine.
Wow, we skipped collectible, retro, and vintage and went straight to antique.
Probably should read: "Owned by a little old lady who only had to put oil in it on Sundays"
Interesting evaluation. And I must add, I've been looking around the country to find a rust-free 86 or 87 Crown Vic to replace mine, which was originally "just a beater". It was nice but not perfect enough to actually try and passivate against the winter salt. And regardless of true condition, I'm finding just about every "Box-Panther" seller has this disease as well. They label it as if it belongs in a show next to tri-five Chevvies, Studebakers and '74 Trans-Am 455 SD's. And they want twice as much as your average mid-90s Panther, which would have more power, more technology, and be less likely to have the front frame torque boxes rotted away from air conditioning usage (sad as it sounds). Dealers are the worst (natch) but that's my only option so I can use my credit card as opposed to trying to find a way to buy a car sight unseen from a CL seller states away. Unless I find a no-winter-freak locally.
So you're getting another Panther to drive in the winter? Why a rot free Box? If you're going to winter drive it might as well get a cheap 98 and up Vic. Who cares if that rusts to hell.....
ZondaC12,
PM sent.
I might get flamed for this, but I think our cars make very good winter drivers, as well as daily drivers
everyone in a while you find someone who is realistic. I've gotten either very lucky, or cars just aren't worth anything here
I just bought my 86 5.0 for $500.
my 87 5.0 was $400.(tv cable came off. no od)
last 87 5.0 bird was $400.("didn't run". swapped fuseable links, was in very good condition.
87 bird 5.0 before that was $400 (bad engine and trans unfortunately).
87 3.8 v-6 cougar $300. new trans, bad body.
87 3.8 v-6 cougar. $550. Good body and car died to a bad waterpump.
86 5.0 cougar. $400. needed a starter solinoid.
86 5.0 cougar. $110 police impound. million miles, bad body.
if you put a bit of work into a "non-running" car, you can get pretty good deals.
Oh yeah!! In my book, an older car that only needs regular maintenance, trumps a 5 Y/O POS that's had to be taken to the stealership several times (I speak from experience) any day!!
I had a 52 mile each way commute and delivered pizza on the foot hills of a mountain for two years with my old 87 bird. I didn't get stuck once.
Agreed. Except the V6 cars I've had have done better in the snow than the V8 cars I've had.
I'm in the midst of a big struggle lol. One, I hate the thought of being forced to let something waste away. Two, I want something unique to be seen in and to experience every day. I really love box panthers, and I get a lot of compliments. And I've still got it stuck in my head that I can successfully rustproof one, if I only start with something that is perfect save for maybe a couple of surface-rusted body mount bolts or something like that. The blue one really isn't *that* bad, there are just a couple of coin-currency-sized places in the trunk that were always there, and recently I jammed a screwdriver into them and they blew through. Same with a really small spot that was visible on the driver's front door corner. There is a 1/4" hole that exists 1 inch inboard from the corner of the passenger rear lower quarter. I had thoroughly removed all loose flake on the inside when I bought the car, I sprayed WD-40 and other products on the inside and outside of this a few times as it got dirty. It's still dirty and grey-black both in and out, and this hole hasn't gotten any bigger in 5 years. That has to prove something.
The trouble is that I'm an engineer and I won't take "insurmountable problem" as an answer. I wish I could move out of the salt belt....
I'd like to have a unique DD but living in the salt belt I bought a brand new Focus. I won't feel so bad when in 10-15 years the salt gods get it. Some times you have to suck it up and drive a "normal" car. Maybe ;).
They do make good daily drivers but in some places of the country (here) salt will claim the cars long before a mechanical issue will.
Yeah... I haven't driven any Cougars in snow for 10 years and don't plan to any more anyway.
If I lived somewhere where it didn't snow/get salted I would rock a Fox-body as a DD.
we use a lot of salt here and it snows. in my opinion its the constant humidity you guys get along the coast and back east. I can't imagine I'm doing anything different.