Ford’s Thunderbird has had so many rebirths over time that one may suppose a greater title for the mannequin could be Phoenix. In the present day’s Good Value or No Cube Tremendous Coupe is without doubt one of the sportiest of the bunch. Let’s all be good sports activities and determine what it’s price.
It’s been mentioned that whereas it’s good to be essential, it’s extra essential to be good. Trite as that recommendation could also be, it’s laudably sound and an affordable apply for wending one’s manner by life. Relatedly, the 2005 Audi TT 3.2 that got here our manner yesterday was introduced as being in very good situation. With its VR6 motor and resto-mod attractiveness, it was additionally an essential nibble out of Audi’s historical past, so it lined each bases. A $13,500 asking worth sealed the deal, profitable a slim 55 % Good Value win.
Owed to some wholesome respiration made attainable by a four-valve head and digital wizardry solely fashionable engines can take pleasure in, yesterday’s Audi VR6 made a wholesome 247 horsepower from its 3.2 liters of displacement.
In distinction, the bigger 3.8-liter, 2-valve per cylinder V6 in at present’s 1991 Ford Thunderbird wants a Roots-style supercharger to construct as much as its extra modest stampede of 230 horses. That issue garnered the blown Fowl the Tremendous Coupe or “SC” moniker and made it the highest performancer for the Thunderbird’s Tenth mannequin run.
A supercharged engine wasn’t the SC’s solely calling card, both. The range-topping mannequin additionally acquired distinctive decrease physique cladding, an uprated suspension, a limited-slip differential as commonplace, and 16-inch alloy wheels, a full inch larger than lesser T-birds. Sure, 16-inch was the “large wheel” again then. Oh, and in contrast to the opposite Tenth-generation vehicles, the SC could possibly be had with both a four-speed AOD computerized or a Mazda-sourced five-speed stick.
This SC has a five-speed and is touted in its advert as being “frivolously restored, maintained, and cared for as a each day driver.” It sports activities three units of keys, in depth documentation, and a passing grade from the Pennsylvania state inspector.
In accordance with the advert, the automotive was repainted within the manufacturing facility Twilight Blue Metallic in 2023, and that appears to have been an honest job, not one thing from the Earl of Scheib. Underpinning is a set of SC alloys which were plasti-dipped in white, which could possibly be seen as a much less profitable effort. Points embrace some rust recognizing on the bottoms of the doorways and a little bit of sag within the rocker trim. On the plus aspect, it wears newish Verdestein All-Season tires and appears clear beneath.
Many up-market vehicles from this period have leather-based upholstery, which tends to age like Two-Buck Chuck. This automotive’s seats are material and vinyl, they usually seem to have held up admirably, the entrance buckets providing a slew of electrical changes as properly. The sprint has maybe not been so fortunate because it wears a carpet toupee. Oddly, the current proprietor has deactivated the shoulder harness mouse belt, so front-seat occupants should sidle beneath that when coming into and exiting the automotive. One other situation is that the aspect view mirror adjusters are non-functioning, one thing the vendor muses is perhaps traced to a blown fuse. They might seemingly have already fastened it if it have been so simple as that.
Mechanical points embrace what the vendor says is a just lately found exhaust leak and the substitute of the manufacturing facility ABS system with an after-market, non-ABS setup. Apparently, that’s a factor on these vehicles.
The odometer exhibits 167,045 miles, though the precise whole is a tad extra for the reason that drive gears broke and have been repaired. The automotive comes with a clear title, its manuals, and even its unique window sticker. That exhibits the automotive’s manufacturing facility MSRP as $22,626, which looks like a silly good worth contemplating simply how a lot automotive that purchased again then. It now asks $6,499, and we should determine if that’s a good higher deal.
What do you say? Is $6,499 a good worth for this Tremendous Coupe because it’s been described in its advert? Or do the choices made (these wheels, the seat belts) and the unaddressed points demand an excellent discount in that asking?
You determine!
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