until its engine seized in 1988, at which time it was moved to Birmingham by a new owner with ambitions on a restoration project that never got off the ground

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I had a 88. Fun car. I’d be tempted to blow $10k on a perfect, looks like it rolled off the showroom floor example, and this one is not. Somewhere between $5-6k is the sweet spot for this one.

I love this generation Thunderbird, especially one with a manual transmission. That being said, I don’t think the market is ready for a almost-$10K Aerobird, even though this one seems to be in really nice condition.

I love these cars, and I love blue cars with blue interiors.

Super clean, and actually a reasonably fun car. But for close to $10k? Too much money to be asking, at least in my opinion.

I currently work with several of the team members that were there that day and its amazing how much of an impression one test, less than 50 laps, had on them still today.

I’ve got to call out Marshall Pruett as a real asset for American race fans. He’s a great journalist, but he’s clearly a really big race fan at heart. His knowledge and enthusiasm really combine to generate some great reporting.

You’ll be happy to know that next year the intakes are gone and the cars will look a lot more like and evolution of the old champ cars than the old IRL crapwagons.

Not trying to argue but i always remember Indycar of that era adopting safety tech much sooner than f1.Things like HANS,cockpit side protection, etc
F1 was living in dreamland back then.Even when Mad Moansly started his safety campaign things took soooo long to be addopted.Such incredible arrogance
Anyways back to the…

Absolutely. I still think the early-mid 90's IndyCars were the best looking open-wheelers ever. The new ones are hideous by comparison.

It really came down to reliability. Looking at the stats, Senna was leading the points until Canada where Prost began a string of wins, and Senna mustered two 4ths, a 5th, and a dismal 18th because he stalled. Had he capitalized on Prosts two out of points positions, and didn’t retire at Portugal and Canada, I can…

Other than the racing on 200+ MPH ovals Indy Car took safety way more seriously than F1 at the time. Even with that, they had deaths on road courses. I still remember how long it took the safety crew to get to Senna, not that it would have made a difference, but still...

F1 had comical head restraints, poor track safety, poor car safety standards, and laughable emergency response at the time, much of which contributed to Senna’s death... but IndyCar was (and is) absurdly dangerous too. It’s just a nature of the tracks IndyCars run.

That would have put Mansell and Senna both as defectors to IndyCar in the same year. That would have been very interesting.

Sleek? They need to take about a foot of body height out of it. The frontal area alone is almost twice that of a 1970 Silverado. It’s almost embarrassing.

I drove the Dalton Highway after undergrad, so about 20 years ago. Not sure if they changed it, but that thing gobbles up tires — I think a lot of the road is made of arrowheads. My advice: Put down the Krakauer and start shopping 10-ply tires. You won’t regret it.

Almost everyone on this website seems to have the idea that used luxury cars make you look rich and I don’t understand why. Your 10 to 15 year old BMW isn’t fooling anyone that cares.

Truth on that E46 ownership.

To quote Mr. Regular, “[New] Lincoln Navigator... I’ll be seeing you in the ghetto in eight years.”