This arrived on the Bangshift blog today. Never heard of this before. If anyone has details on one of these cars, please let me know. Would be awesome to have one if its a reasonable price.
http://bangshift.com/general-news/car-features/ford-car-features/would-you-rather-the-bizzaro-world-thunderbird-edition-they-both-have-power-adders-and-manual-transmissions-and-theyre-both-freaks/
It'd drop a lot of money for that 88 Turbo Coupe varient.
Also, I found this....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/181890419710
I think the Bangshift guy was a little harsh on the '86 TC. The "Vipera" is an abomination, but the TC is a nice car.
There was a post about those a while back:
http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com/showthread.php?39179-1986-Ford-Gullwing-Thunderbird-601-miles
My god, the MN12 was fugly enough, but that c00ch..errr vipara thing is an optical assault.
I've personally never laid eyes upon the proverbial "bag of mashed assholes", but I couldn't imagine it looking any worse than that car...lol
I would love to own that gullwing '86. I'd prefer to own both, though the Vipara is definitely an example of the extreme of styling in ~1990, which just ends up dated too strongly.
The Vipara is very Vector W8-esque. IMO the MN-12 'Bird side windows ruin the whole thing as they're too pedestrian for the wild remainder of the car.
Wheel choice is definitely on the money. The dashboards of those cars are a little "pen 15pit"-ish too, they slightly surround the driver and are more aggressive-looking than the late Fox. The 80s-90s "Aero" stuff seems more and more like history repeating a la the late 50s - early 60s.
I guarantee in the day that thing looked like a rocketship to passers-by. Lower it and put something, anything with 400-500 horsepower under the hood. Then it would earn that body. Preferably a turbo V8.
The four eye turbo car is still for sale. $24000.
It'd drop about $8,000 cash on the table. Sorry, but the 86 and below motors without the intercoolers etc, just don't do it for me.. Sorry guys, no offense.
It'd easily drop 12-15k for the 1988 Turbo Coupe version of the car, if I could find it. As long as it isn't a red interior.
Do not like either. I like stock appearing cars ;)
Coming from the guy with arguably the prettiest stock appearing car on the forum. My had it off to you on that, by the way.
I like the sleeper element. Makes it more fun to surprise people ;).