1988 Ford Thunderbird Reviews, Pricing & Specs

PERFORMANCE- 302 v8 provided good acceleration, braking was good enough, handling was decent. BUILD QUALITY- It needed too many repairs for me to keep it, the headlights needed new lenses, it needed a new wiring harness, the engine and transmission needed to be rebuilt, along with some axle work... APPEARANCE- Interior was fairly clean, exterior needed a paint job. COST OF OWNERSHIP- gas mileage ran about 18 mpg, it had a quick drain on the oil pan making maintenance fairly easy. FUN FACTOR- I had fun with this car, but it is NOT as much fun as my Bus (Subaru, U R A Bus when spelled back words.).Oct 16, 2009

I bought the T-Bird from my m9om when i was 15 for 200 dollars earned ovewr an entire summer of saving up my money and she had alot of problems (Neither of the windows rolled down the only ventilation she had was the power sunroof and the motor was going bad on that) she had the base 302 in her and i found out that the people that had her before me didnt change the oil in her for three years and that is why she leaked like a sive but i loved her with all my heart both my ex and my current fiance were jealous of the car because they thought that i loved her more then i did to them. for a long time that car was my home and in curtain times she was my confidant when i was a bank courier we would get into arguments and i would start yelling but she always forgave me. my name is David and my cousin is a bible freak so he said that i should name my car Bathsheba after the woman that king david falls in love with in the bible and the name stuck. me and that car wrecked three times and went off the road more than oi can count because of my inexperiance not through any fault of hers and then one day i was driving to my friends house and a few days prior i had noticed the transmission slipping and i replaced the filter and fluid then i went over to his house and i started to smell smoke and i looked down at the center console and i could see smoke so i got to the hill infront of his house and put her in neutral and shut her off and coasted to his house where she sat until i hopefully could get a tow truck to take her to the garage because im a teenager armed with a haynes manual this repair task was out of my hands. then i found out that i couldnt get the tow out and i stupidly decided to try to drive the five miles to the shop and halfway she starts to downshift and then she finally died and i tried and tried to restart her but she was dead so i coasted into a school parking lot and then called the office from my cell phone and asked if she could wait there while i got a tow truck and they said that i could and then when i got baack there three days later she was gone she had been towed away i didnt have the funds needed to get her back and i tried to make a deal with the towing company because i was heading out to basic in about a week from then but they said that they couldnt help me and that if i didnt pay or sign the car tpo them that they would charge it to my credit and that would kill my chance at my clearance so i had to sign over my first and only car. im sorry but this is the only place that ive seen where i could write an eulogy for her. because the tow people scraped her and i miss her ive driven alot of cars and none were better thgan she was let me tell you if you can get your hands on a 88 T-Bird keep her keep ahold of her the best that you can these are the best cars that you can getOct 22, 2008

I love the way this car looks because of it's classic styling. I do hate the 3.8 liter v6 EFI it came with though. It drinks gas and is slower than molasses, but then again, it has 238,000 miles on it, which brings me to build. This thing has been rear ended 4 times, totaling 3 out of the 4 cars that has hit it. Overall, I love this car. It would, however, be the best thing ever if it had a 302 or a 351. Sep 08, 2008

This is my third thunderbird and i have to say that i still love the cars. I got a 1984 thunderbird as my first car. It had a 5.0L that we ripped out of a wrecked mustang in it. When i decided to get it painted I sanded off the paint and it was covered in bondo. So we junked the body and kept the organs. I then bought a 1988 thunderbird turbo coupe and drove it for awhile. Then i wanted my 5.0 back so i sold it and bought a thunderbird lx and dropped my engine in it. May 19, 2008

I bought this car fully stock with a bad oil leak at the on the intake and the oil pan i have since put in a rebuilt motor, put BBK headers, H-pipe, and flowmasters dumped in front of the rear axle. I've also rebuilt the trans and put in a PA street/strip valve body and a 8.8" rearend with 3.73 and limited slip from my automatic turbo coupe. Also have a few other small things done to it. Apr 03, 2008

For a Free Car and a 290 Hp 5.0 Its very responsive Handles allmost like a Pony !Power everything like new inter. have had it at 135 MPH on interstate 15 in southern California . factory aloys new coopers Love this car The wife's Daily Driver. She donated it as a doner for My project ThunderMiniTruck I'm going to part it for my 1970 DATSUN PL620 Truck it has 2.5" aluminumised with Flow Master , With Ford 9" Posi.Ladder Bars,4 Link Hime Joint But needs The 5.0 all the badges. Power windows and a build up on the moter. I'll call it ToJo's Revenge,Or ThunderMini Ye Ha !!!! What FUN !!!!Jan 05, 2007