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New Taillights Coming For My Pony

Reply #15 –
Quote from: jkirchman;319397
Nice! 

You remember that song on Sesame Street?  "One of these things is not like the other.  One of these things just doesn't belong..."

That's what I thought of when I saw the two Fords in your driveway with that red go-kart next to them.  :D


Oh you are so right... That Yaris does not belong and it was not my decision for that thing to be in the driveway. Since I am hitched to a flight attendant, it is what we call an airport car which sits in the parking lot there much of the time. Does a lot of good hauling for such a small car. If the Ford Fiesta was on the market when that car came out we would be Ford all the way. Before that Yaris, we had a 1997 VW GTI which was junk... It would be a great car if it was not full of defective demons. It had to go!

Funny thing is we both had various Thunderbirds way before we knew each other.

We both love Thunderbirds so much that if Ford offered a brand new one in the spirit of our old four seat models we might be at the dealership in a split second... that is if they built the right one... The latest roadsters are nice but not practical.

Truthfully, the latest Mustang is pretty much the essence of the original four seat Thunderbirds and was inspired by it. If it were not for the fact there was a market for large Tbirds back in the 1960's, the Mustang likely would have become another Thunderbird. History books explain from the design and engineering point of view that the Mustang is originally what they really wanted the Tbird to be back in 1958, but until the small block V8 was developed and released a few years later, there was no way to scale such a car down around the availaible V8's at the time and have it be small as they wanted it to be.

 With all the downsizing of cars, the market has merged the Mustang and Tbird into what is really the same package, so modern marketing dictates that the Mustang is the most popular legend to keep around as a must have for Ford to exist while the last Thunderbird just floundered around as a limited production rich man's toy with two less seats. So the Mustang remains true to the very successful 1958 Tbird package with four seats and it remains to have the most popular convertible today while the modern fastback Mustangs continue the legend of the classic ponies of the 1960's.

New Taillights Coming For My Pony

Reply #16 –
Had to modify the lamp housing to accept extra sockets and bulbs in the outer faux back-up sections so both of them would light up. Only the inner ones were manufactured to accept the bulb and socket for back-ups...

New Taillights Coming For My Pony

Reply #17 –
I like everything about your idea to change out the taillights and to make both reverse lights functional.

Thumbs up!
13 Dodge Dart SXT Special Edition
09 Honda Shadow Sabre ---------- 08 Caliber
05 Aztek ---------- 02 Avalanche
02 Thunderbird (4,000 miles) ---------- 02 Cadillac ETC
98 Explorer ---------- 96 Suzuki X-90
89 Fleetwood ---------- 89 Continental
88 Town Car ---------- 86 Silverado ---------- 84 Fiero
83 Town Car ---------- 82 EXP (32,000 miles) ---------- 82 Mercury LN7
80 Mustang (35,000 miles) ---------- 65 Continental
62 Galaxie 500 ---------- 54 Packard
 

New Taillights Coming For My Pony

Reply #18 –
Quote from: ShowBoy;319783
I like everything about your idea to change out the taillights and to make both reverse lights functional.

Thumbs up!


Thanks man! ;)

New Taillights Coming For My Pony

Reply #19 –
Quote from: jkirchman;319397
Nice! 

You remember that song on Sesame Street?  "One of these things is not like the other.  One of these things just doesn't belong..."

That's what I thought of when I saw the two Fords in your driveway with that red go-kart next to them.  :D


Oh I just had to reply again tonight! The other half traded the Yaris today and bought a new 2010 Ford Fusion SE in black metallic today while I was at work. So now all the cars belong! Only problem is programming the SNYC has been whipping our asses! Back to the dealership tomorrow so we it can get it to pair the bluetooth to stream audio. I have never seen such a complicated thing to program and all the instructions suck!

New Taillights Coming For My Pony

Reply #20 –
Quote from: Watchdevil
The other half traded the Yaris and bought a new 2010 Ford Fusion SE in black metallic today while I was at work.

Did she tell you she was going to do that or was it just a surprise?  It's cool that she got a new Fusion, which is a hell of a lot more car than that little Yaris was, but I would be seriously upset if my wife bought a car without telling me about it!  LOL

That Sync must have a steep learning curve if you, the guy that swapped a Mustang dash into his Tbird and called it easy, are having trouble learning to set it up!

Congratulations on the new car though.  Pics!
-Jim
1987 Cougar LS 5.0

New Taillights Coming For My Pony

Reply #21 –
Quote from: jkirchman;319945
Did she tell you she was going to do that or was it just a surprise?  It's cool that she got a new Fusion, which is a hell of a lot more car than that little Yaris was, but I would be seriously upset if my wife bought a car without telling me about it!  LOL

That Sync must have a steep learning curve if you, the guy that swapped a Mustang dash into his Tbird and called it easy, are having trouble learning to set it up!

Congratulations on the new car though.  Pics!


It's a surprise but I cannot complain... After all it is a Ford!

I'm posting pics in a new thread!