Eventually the Corvette went to racing, and the Thunderbird became the boulevard king. Hagerty is at $8,900 for a #3 good-condition car so this could be a heck of a find.The Thunderbird and the Corvette have a long and sorted history, with both initially competing for the same customer space. They do say that the brakes need some help and the AC isn’t working, but it starts right up, runs well, and the clutch works as it should. and most modern vehicles can be stored in such a manner without too much trouble. The seller says that this car has been in storage for years but is started every few months. This one is Ford’s 2.3-liter OHC inline-four turbo, which had 155 horsepower and 190 lb-ft of torque. The Turbo Coupe has, of course, a turbo engine! Ok, that was too easy.
The best part of this car for me is the Borg Warner T5 five-speed manual transmission. The seller says that there is no rust so that’s good. The seats look perfect to me both front and rear, and the underside looks relatively good, but it is showing some surface rust under there. Thankfully, they do show a lot of interior photos and this car really looks nice inside. They do mention some flaking paint on the passenger side rocker, which they show, but there are only four exterior photos. Again, my brain hurts wondering why sellers don’t give more photos, as there doesn’t appear that they need to hide anything on this car, it looks fantastic. Sadly, this is the only photo showing the car from the front, or even one showing the driver’s side. Remember this era? Changing the entire headlight rather than twisting a bulb in the back of a headlight assembly? Now, most people probably don’t even have to do that anymore with LEDs or Xenon headlights. This era of Thunderbird was updated for the 1987 model year with aero-style headlights, and as you can see, this older version has at least one headlight out. The ninth-generation Thunderbird was made from 1982 for the 1983 model year until the 1988 model year, mainly as a response or more of a retort to the somewhat-clumsy styling of the previous Thunderbird, which only lasted three years. The seller has this 1985 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe listed here on eBay in Hickory, North Carolina and they have a $4,450 buy-it-now price listed. I like the previous straight-edged T-Birds but this new design was sleek. The styling difference between the eighth and ninth-generation Thunderbirds is almost like the difference between the Model T and Model A, although even more dramatic.
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