Vintage Thunderbird Club International

That seat position is a bit deceiving, but like I said, being 6'5", any back seat is uninhabitable behind me for adults unless it's a megacab truck. I intend to get the cooled seats working, it doesn't have a/c ducting like you would think, just a small blower motor to blow air on your butt and...

Slow progress, but better than none! In case I havnt offended anyone yet with this build, I found a nice pair of Cadillac sts heated/cooled/full power seats to put in instead of the stock buckets; they were $40/ea! I had to cut some more of the floor out to make them sit low enough (they are the sam...

Been a while, making optimistic progress on wiring, and have the clutch installed but with the new job and the holidays things are slowing down for now (goal is 5-8hrs/wk) I think th stock engine harness will work almost unaltered, need a month or,so to save for some fuel system and EEC hardware...o...

No real progress recently with life getting in the way but figured I'd check in. I bought the rest of the mark viii harness and Ecm that I think I'll need to get the engine running (eventually). hurricane Irma came by last week and knocked out power for a bit. My parents live on the coast here in FL...

Finally got a chance to paint the front wheel wells, trunk, and underbody with raptor bedliner, pretty happy with the results - now I can start bolting the IRS up for good. The dash fiberglassing is going pretty well, I drilled holes in the foam like stubbie suggested and it feels firm, just need to...

So I'm seeing how the uploading works on this site since photobucket has gotten greedy. Mostly been trunk work last month, the 2 open boxes above the flat floor will be plexiglass so you can see the IRS (I didn't want to hide something that took so much work). The flat part of the floor will have th...

Thanks guys! It' mans a lot to hear how you and anyone else is following along...just wish life and technology didn't get in the way!! And Raven, I'd love to take you up on that offer! I'm building this thing to sell it (eventually) but that doesnt mean I'm not going to drive it around for a few mon...

This projects far from dead, but the photobucket greed has slowed the updates for sure! Thanks ozbird, I'll look into that site (no way in hell im paying $400/yr)! Since my last post I've made a substructure for the trunk floor and fuel tank and have skinned it and seam sealed it. I removed the IRS ...

They're the mark viii hubs still, I found some 1.25" spacers that were dual drilled so I didn't have to do anything to the hubs to fit the wheel bolt pattern. It was a convoluted swap over from the 2v 4.6 to the dohc, but I liked how the dohc looked visually and the added bonus for this swap wa...

Thanks raven! That's what I'm going for, minimal/tasteful changes to the body with mechanical changes that make it pleasing to drive going down the highway at 80mph. I'd also feel bad if I was starting with something restored or rare (although it wouldve made the process easier). But I have no feeli...

I wasn't aware that the town car had air ride, turns out they did, but I didn't have any luck trying to find the right setup for the 04+ front suspension. I think I'm going to try to find a universal spring with the correct dimensions and rate that I can put on the stock strut... Finally got the car...

Thanks Mike. The front end is out of an early 00's lincoln town car, but I think are also in that same era crown Vic. I think I paid ~$300 for it, I think I also have $80 in steering u-joints and rods to connect to the stock steering. but there's still some money that I need to dump into it...I don'...

I got my parts back from powdercoating/ ceramic coating Next big move is to turn the car around in the garage so I can do rust repair on the passenger side. Planning a trip to the junkyard so I can get some rear springs and brake master parts too.

Not much new, just boring bodywork except I found a good deal on a set of headers, should be a good improvement over the stock logs...I also got an H pipe, an electric fan and underdrive pulley setup for a chunk less than a new set of headers ./image-archive/i179.photobucket.com/albums/w293/63vette7...

I think that this was the most gratifying day of this build yet. I replaced the rear main seal, oil pan gasket and installed new motor mounts and a new stock clutch before getting to see the transmission bolted to the DOHC engine for the first time. The engines finally installed, hopefully for good,...