Not a panther but still a Ford

[purplebomb302]

Very, very clean for a northern car. Sweet find with the documents too.

It's the same with my truck too. That came from around here and has no rust on it for it being a '96. The only rust is starting on the hood and it's from it having a used jy hood and shitty paint from when it was wrecked.

I love the fact that it has receipts and things like that. Just about all the receipts are for oil changes.

[purplebomb302]

The sport versions of those were the shit. Same suspension as the super coupes. Only made for a few years they started to out sell the SC .Good find.

Yea I guess the ones with the sport suspension had a switch to firm up the ride.

[turbo2256b]

Came real close to picking up a real nice looking Sport last year in Ohio. Tried to get my girlfrieds youngest son to look at it for me but he woulnt it sold fairly quik too.

[Hearsesrock427]

No go fast plans ATM. Maybe just remove the air silencer from the air box. I don't think I woulda bought it if it had the ugly ass green interior that ford had to hold onto since the 70's.

I picked it up earlier this afternoon and I have to say I absolutely enjoy driving it. Too bad I've only a few weeks at most of driving it. Gonna put it away probably before November. Took some pics today after I got home. I also checked out the glove box when I got home only to find a shitload of receipts dating back to the purchase, 2 window stickers, owners manual, and the cassette holder for the ford radio. I tried changing the radio stations when I left the dealer only to find that the ford radio cassette was in there.

Can't say I blame you. The time to drive the piss out of the car is waning; the more WOT runs and spirited driving you get in now, the better. I totally get that- I'm parking my '89 in late October/very early November. I just came back from a quick spirited driving session, which was epic.

The green interior looks good on some cars (such as leafsrule's '79), but it would definitely clash with your '93. Very impressed with all the documentation you got- nothing beats proof that a car was well taken care of. Makes it easier to plan out future servicing too; you know what's been done already. With 31,000 miles, she's damn near brand new, if not brand new. You really scored with this one, I have to say.

[79lincolnlover]

Fantastic shape!!!

[purplebomb302]

Surprisingly I haven't been trompin on it too much. I think only twice so far I've had it to the floor up to 50. I've been taking it real easy with it. If it's nice out this weekend I'll try to get more under car and under hood shots.

[purplebomb302]

I was going to my cousins house today about 15 miles or so away from my house. Just about a mile from her house I was letting off the gas and the car kinda felt weird. Almost like it jumped out of 4th and into 3rd then went back into 4th. I got a weird feeling about something. It felt exactly like my Grand Marq did when I let off the gas after 40mph. So on my way home maybe about halfway it seemed like it slipped going into 4th. Almost like there was no torque converter. I knew exactly what it was that had happened.

When I got home I opened the hood only to find the TV cable off the TB. Here's a pic of the bushing:



I should've known better to check it, even before I took delivery of the car. But being a 31k mile car I didn't think of it. I jerry rigged something to get it to work to go get a plastic one from AZ till I get the brass one in from Rock Auto. Trans does shift better going into 3rd and 4th now. When I first test drove it it kinda seemed like it eased into 4th a little too easily. Never thought anything of it.

I don't think I lost the trans at all. Seems ok driving. I'll know a bit more when I drive the car when it's cold and not warmed up. Warmed up seems ok now.

Moral of the story: No matter what the mileage is replace that TV bushing.

[88Vic]

It ate 3 transmissions in 90k....Grandpa liked to use the R-D shift as his brakes when backing out of the driveway

A friend of mine does that, bothers me every time. That's why I won't let him drive my car, I don't need more transmission problems.

Bit off topic but: is it worse for the transmission to go from reverse to neutral to stop it, then do to drive? Or is it worse to slow it to a stop while in reverse, then shift straight to drive and vise-versa? Sometimes I do the former, if on a hill to ease the braking but if it's worse on the transmission I'll quit doing it.

[sly]

of those two, it would be worse to stop while in gear, but the difference is so marginal because the torque converter is taking the heat on that one (and it's not much either). as long as you stop before you hit D, you're doing good. it's the neutral drops to D that kill it (banging from R to D while still rolling or revving in neutral and banging D... either way is worse than the two options you present but a very large margin).

[79lincolnlover]

Time to up-date your sig pic.

[purplebomb302]

Time to up-date your sig pic.

Yes it is.

So far I have put around 160 miles with no issues from the trans.

[purplebomb302]

As promised here's some engine bay shots I took the other day.

[pantera77]

Wow, that car is stupid clean. I'd probably just leave everything stock on it.

[sly]

meh... procharger it

[purplebomb302]

Wow, that car is stupid clean. I'd probably just leave everything stock on it.

Thanks! I thought about going with a bigger TB and/or UD pullies but I don't want to touch anything on this car. I'm upgrading the radio on it because a stock radio sucks. Bout the only thing I'm willing to do is that.

I'd do a procharger but after buying this I'm poor.