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My Family's Cars Mine: 1988 Turbo Coupe I've been lucky enough to get a very nice 1988 Thunderbird Turbo Coupe. It's black outside and inside. It's got a manual transmission so I've got 190hp. The car is very nice and hasn't needed much. The lower half of the rear seat needed recovered. Someone was a very bad smoker on the passenger side. It looks like someone put their smoke out on the seat in about three places. Burned right through the fabric. It's been recovered now and looks 100% better. Other than that it has a clunk in the rear that we think is either a control arm or a shock. If it's a control arm that would be the best time to go to polyurethane bushings. I believe that I'm the third owner of the car. The first owner was from Maryland and his name was Jay. He sold the car to a guy named Chris in '94 and he didn't put than about 6,000 miles on it in his 6 years of ownership. I'm the last owner of the car as of now. We bought the car from Chris in Feburary of '00. He sold the car because he had bought a Ford Ranger. He lives only about 2 miles away from my house. Dad's: 1997 Thunderbird LX This is the car my mom bought for my dad, but she ended up driving it for awhile. He didn't know she was buying it and when he found out, he refused to drive it because my mom was driving a '90 Dodge Spirit and he didn't want to have a new car and have her in an older one. It's his now though. Anyway, we bought it in the fall of '98 and it had 14,000 miles on it. It's got the 4.6 V8, but that's nothing to really brag about. It doesn't run bad, but it pings pretty bad with anything less than high-test which it shouldn't have to run. Other than that, it's a nice car and I like it. It has been slightly modified with a K&N filter, the air silencer has been removed, Dynomax exhaust system, and a Transgo shiftkit. The stereo has been upgraded with a Kenwood 715 cd-player and Polk EX 5"x7" speakers. It sounds pretty good. Mom's: 2001 PT Cruiser Yeah, we have one of those things. My mom wanted one ever since she saw the prototype. She ordered it the first day you could and received it 4 1/2 months later in July. Once she got her car, my dad got the T-Bird. It's silver with the chrome 16" wheels. I personally would rather have had black or the bright red, but it's not my car. It does look good in silver though. It's a really nice car considering what it costs. Most cars in that price range don't have half the stuff it does. As far as the structual integrity goes, I've never seen a car with doors that shut so solidly. It rides nice for a short wheel base car with short sidewall tires on it. Brakes are very solid (I wish my car had a brake pedal that felt like that.) It lacks in the truly important part though, power. With the AC on if you try to go up an onramp and gain speed, you're standing on it. It's peppy though without the AC on though. It's fun to run around though and tons of people look at it. Sister: 1992 T-Bird This was the first T-Bird my family ever bought. It was my dad's car after he sold his '80 Chrysler Cordoba. It's an R-title because it was stolen. My dad and I strongly believe that this car got the shit beat out of it because of the condition the interior was in when we bought it. It actually surprised me when he did buy it because that's not like him. It doesn't matter though because the car has performed flawlessly. It doesn't burn a drop of oil. My sister would like to have something newer though. |
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