Thunderbird Turbo Coupe, and the work goes on...
 

I have been going a bit crazy here lately! I don't remember if I mention this before, but my wife and I are in the process of fixing up our house in preparation for a move to Tennessee. At the same time, we've also been packing up all the extra "stuff" you need to get out of the house so it can be shown. Needless to say, this has been rather time consuming!

On top of all of the above, I have also been working on my father's boat, which was stored here at my house. We finally got it all done, and towed down to my parent's home in NC.

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As you can see, it even floats!

After all of these projects, it's finally time to work on the 'bird. The last couple of days I have spent my running stereo wiring, and installing my new dash cluster (with 140mph speedometer). While I had the cluster out, I converted it to red lighting. I also installed an analog clock in place of the digital one.

For the stereo I went with a 2-din Kenwood with integral Garmin GPS. This is backed by all new MTX speakers and subs, driven by a couple of old Fultron amps I had laying around. Sounds damned nice, and without too much cash outlay!

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Interior pics are so hard to take! Anyway, here is the new dash pad installed, along with a bit of the new cluster and headunit.

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Another shot of the headunit. This thing is so cool!

Today I hope to install my black headliner and trim, after I tidy up the garage.

Shiny Side Up!
Bill

And the work continues...

Replaced the bad oil pressure sending unit, and hooked up the temperature sending unit the last guy left disconnected (from when he tried to hook up his own gauges).

Replaced the TPS and calibrated it (yeah! No more Check Engine light!).

Installed the headliner, parcel deck, rear interior panels and rear seat. Installed both front seats, and wired the new rear view mirror and driver's side vanity mirror.

I hope to have everything done except for the exhaust before we leave for France...

We leave Friday.

Shiny Side Up!
Bill