![]() PstPassword - Outlook PST Password Recovery.NK2Edit - Edit, merge and fix the AutoComplete files of Microsoft Outlook.Mail PassView v1.92 - Extract lost email passwords I hope to keep this car for many years and then pass it on to my son.Mail PassView: Password recovery for Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Windows Mail, and more. And it will only see bad weather if I am careless enough to be caught out when I should be driving my daily driver. I expect to put between 3 to 4 thousand miles a year on this car, at most. ![]() Despite what those clowns on “Top Gear” said in their “Worst Car Ever” episode. But for those of us who want one to drive and could care less if it appreciates in value - it is a fine car. Most of the people who bought them originally, I believe, bought them for investments, and sadly for them it has not paid off. This car wasn’t designed to be a daily driver and I’ve only ever seen one advertised for sale with over 100k miles. I am happy to report the 3.9L V-8 and its 5-speed automatic accelerates effortlessly and quite quickly from 65 to 100 mph. The trucks that travel this road tend to herd up, and several times I had to pass two or three of them at once. In Oklahoma and SE Colorado, US 287 is mostly a two lane highway with infrequent passing lanes. This in spite of the fact, or maybe because of the fact, that the car received an “Italian tune-up”. The speedometer and odometer are accurate as measured by the mile markers and a stopwatch - 45 seconds per mile.Īs noted earlier, I averaged 24 MPG for the trip, but on the last leg of my journey, from Amarillo to Denver, it jumped up to 27 MPG. I averaged just over 24 MPG on the trip, cruising along at 80mph on the interstates. All the electrics still work fine, with the exception of the top motor, which needs a little push to lower the top going up it works fine. On the trip the car performed flawlessly. So my 80 something year old father and I drove the car back to Shreveport, a 2000 mile trip. I wanted to go back to visit Louisiana, where I had grown up. Like R&T’s Peter Egan, I had a trip in mind when I bought the car. As a matter of routine maintenance, I change all the fluids (except the rear diff), all filters, and put in new plugs. I know these are not the ideal tire for this car, but the Tire Rack had them on sale for $100 each, half the price of the Pilots, and at my age I doubt I will be stressing these tires very often.Īs with most used cars, I don’t have a very detailed past history, other than the Car-Fax, which shows it as a one-owner vehicle, which started out in CA and moved to CO. A new set of Michelin Energy A/S were the first thing I bought after getting the car. The tires still had plenty of tread, but after 10 years they were very hard and beginning to dry rot. The car was in good condition, and even had the original Michelin Pilots. I really don’t miss this, as I don’t expect to drive the car very often during the winter. I got it for $17,500, a good price, but the car didn’t come with the hardtop. The 2004 I bought this past summer is a high mileage car (for a T-Bird) at 47,000 miles. Most of them are now over 10 years old and have less than 25,000 miles, and some can found with less than 10,000. ![]() But for us second owners it is a good thing. I know a lot of these cars’ first owners are rather bitterly disappointed that they haven’t got up in value as they had anticipated. A little more than a decade later, these newer T-Birds have dropped in price to a level when I could play. When Ford brought back the two-seater in 2002, they were still much too expensive for my pocketbook.īut thank goodness for depreciation. General Comments:Īs with most American men of a certain age (I started grade school in 1959) I grew up lusting after a two-seater 55-57 Thunderbird, however they were always more dear than I could afford. I just keep a small compressor in the trunk, and check the tire pressures before I use the car. One still loses a couple #s every week or so. The tire shop put sealant on the worst offenders. Ford has a 10 year extended warranty on these, and my car just made it in under the wire.Īnother known issue is the wheels are not the greatest, and tires tend leak air. This is, unfortunately, a known issue with this engine, but the local Ford dealer replaced them free of charge. It could use a cubby for holding spare change - for tolls.Īfter the trip it developed a misfire due to two failed Coil on Plugs (COPs). The digital odometer and radio display “wash out” in the sunlight.
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