MY Supercoupe story.... (long)

I have always loved cars since my childhood days when “Bo and Luke Duke” did some amazing things along with Burt Reynolds in “Smokey and the Bandit”. I must have tried the majority of those stunts throughout my lifetime. I can truly say that I have learned some very valuable lessons. I likely have more speeding tickets than most normal Americans have teeth. Oh yeah! I almost forgot, to mention that I have beaten some pretty good tickets too! Life is not like the tv-show “COPS”! Sometimes the bad guy gets away! (No Joke!)
I was a senior in High School in 1988, but my twin-brother and I had our own apartment. We shared everthing; cars, bills, girls! That was the life, but when you are that young with a high-performance Mustang and no guidance, things are sure to go wrong sooner or later. During a brotherly spat we wrapped one of our 1979 Official Pace Car Mustangs around a light pole in our apartment complex. That was one of many highlights to my outlandish childhood days because we would fight each other or anyone else for some really stupid reasons. It was definitely time to do some major growing up, so in 1989 I found myself married with a little baby girl! My first marriage ended up a worse crash than the Mustang crash with my crazy twin brother! I really wish that I knew then what I know now because a woman won’t just wreck your car, but some women can easily wreck your life.
It was 1992 and a bad year for me because I lost my wife, my house, my job, and my life turned upside down. For two years I walked around with no money and in trouble with the law. In 1994 my wife decided to work out our differences, so we packed up and moved to Tucson, Arizona after she enlisted into the U.S. Air Force.

I found out that the desert was one thing…. HOT! I had a 1982 Mustang GT that been through everything that my brother and I could throw at it, and the air-conditioning was GONE! I could seriously feel my ears sizzling one day in July because Tucson had reached 115 degrees. I had to find a new car, and I did not want a Chevy, and I definitely didn’t want a “Riceburner”. I wanted a high-performance Ford! In Tucson I met the love of my life! It was a 1991 red Thunderbird SC! I had been out looking for cars one day and a big truck passed by carrying lots of cars, so I saw this T-Bird on it with “17 rims! I pointed it out to my wife and I remember wondering where the heck that truck was headed. I decided not to pursue the truck, but weeks later I found that car used at Aufmuth Motors on 22nd street. We signed the appropriate paperwork, brought it home, and I did not sleep for two whole nights. I later bought a 1994 convertible Mustang GT home for my wife to drive, so that I would not have to share the T-Bird. I had heard of a Supercoupe before, but I realized soon that I was ignorant to the fact of its potential. By the end of 1997 my marriage was over for good this time and she was up to her old ways again. Once again I lost everything but one shiny-red Supercoupe! When I think back on things I realize that over the years this car has been far more loyal than my ex-wife ever was! It sort of reminds me of that movie “Christine”!!! My Supercoupe has always been a safe-haven and a hobby for me to relax my mind when I thought my life was over. In 1998 I packed up my SC with all my clothes and headed back 2,200 miles to sweet home Virginia. I almost collapsed though the physical and emotional stress that a man endures through divorce, but my SC had other plans for me. I met a georgeous chick fresh out of college and mine for the taking after she spotted me in my shiny-red SC with the Cervini Hood, along with some 17” rims. This might sound funny, but in Lebanon, Virginia we only have four sets of “red-lights” in town, and the population is less than seven-thousand people. My lowered SC was definitely out of the normal, and old people were looking at the car like I was a drug-dealer or something! My car had laid out the foundation for me to meet my new wife, Heather!! Heather walked up to me and I thought that a princess was checking out my bird! This sexy-lady was beautiful and my trusty SC had caught her attention. I capitalized on this situation and Heather and I were married one year later.
Heather is so cool that she also replaced the Mustang that I lost in my first marriage with a new, white 1999 Mustang GT. I decided that I didn’t like the automatic tranny in the ’99 model and she went out and bought a shiny-black 2000 GT Mustang with a 5-speed tranny! I wrote an article to the Mustangs and Fast Fords magazine called “Bird Lovers” in ‘2001 about all the Fords that I have owned which include: Two ’79 Official Pace Car Mustangs, an ‘82GT Mustang, a ‘94 Convertible Mustang GT, a ‘99GT Mustang, a 2000 Mustang GT, and a very special ’91 Thunderbird Supercoupe. I think I made my point clear that although I like Mustangs, “I love the Supercoupe and I think that it is a superior vehicle. They published the story! I played with Mustangs for a while, but I just could not shake the Supercoupe fever that had taken control. I have much, much, more at this point in my life than I have ever had and life is pretty awesome with a hobby such as my ’91 Thunderbird Supercoupe.

Over the years I have had some crazy things to happen to my SC. I have had a man to back into it at my job, and a stupid teen-aged boy to rear-end me in the middle of town. I have always used these opportunities to modify this car in one way or the other. I would fix the car with the insurance money, but the trick is to get the work done with a body-shop that will do the work cheaper and use the extra funds for other items such as Cervini’s hood, a new set of Cobra R’s, a rear wing by A&A Specialties (ordered in the catalogs of Pep Boys ), ect. You have to be smooth when your bank account is small as mine. The car was already lowered with a smooth set of 17” rims on it when I bought it (the rims resembled those of the five-star Saleens used on ‘87-’93 model Mustangs), so I have only added things that go bad or get broken by perpetrators who can’t drive in a single file line. This car is stock with the exceptions of the before mentioned items. It used to have some 3:73’s in the rear-end, but I took them out. In the engine compartment I have only added a 5% pulley, a battery, and some K&N air. My twin brother, Fred took my 5% after he was quickly taken by the Supercoupe bug. When I came back from my stay in Arizona, we had to travel to many car lots until we found him a ’91 Supercoupe with a 5sp. tranny. He liked the car so well that he went out and found himself a used ’89 for his girlfriend so that he would not have to share his! Fred and I still have our differences every now and then, so we head to the track to settle them. I challenged his SC on the way home from buying his SC because we wanted to see “what it would do!” At the time I had a set of 3:73 gears in my AOD and I must have been leading about 75 feet when all the sudden he came past me as if I were going in reverse. The “SC BUG” really has him now! I had previously spanked most of our friends, so his head is sort of swolen too! We still have our brotherly spats, but I seriously doubt that a Supercoupe will end up wrapped around a light pole like our expendable Mustang did!! The Mustang was just a casualty of war!!
Now, I have owned the car for nine years and she is fourteen years old. Hmmmm.... time to get serious. Turbo time! :D
I posted this story a few years ago if it sounds familiar. I had just hoped it would be some reading material for any of you who are bored. ;)
I welcome all to share a story of your love affair with your birds. Mine has stuck by my side through two marriages. I have been living the single life since Jan. of '04 and I am calling it quits as far as marriage goes. Life is surely funny how a car can be more committed than a woman. :(

Sincerely,
MEMBER # 1355
Franklin Lynn Burrell
“dirtybird91”
 
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dirtybird91 said:
Once again I lost everything but one shiny-red Supercoupe! When I think back on things I realize that over the years this car has been far more loyal than my ex-wife ever was! It sort of reminds me of that movie “Christine”!!! My Supercoupe has always been a safe-haven and a hobby for me to relax my mind when I thought my life was over.
“dirtybird91”

This couldn't have been said any better. Though I was never married, I have had some stuff happen and its always nice to have the SC there to relax your mind. Its something "stable" that you can rely on. So many things you don't have control over in life and everything changes. This helps keep some sanity.
 
91BLOWNSC said:
This couldn't have been said any better. Though I was never married, I have had some stuff happen and its always nice to have the SC there to relax your mind. Its something "stable" that you can rely on. So many things you don't have control over in life and everything changes. This helps keep some sanity.
Thanks man! I am going through an extremely rough time right now. I went through the holidays alone without my 2 year old son. My thunderbird hobby is the only thing that keeps me focused on something positive these days. I think we all owe much respect to this site and our freinds we have here too. :)
 
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WOW Frank! You're a touchy feely guy arent you? LOL!!! :p
My story is much shorter. Mine is a love hate relationship.
I love the car :) :D Then I hate the car :mad: :mad: but sometimes I really love to hate the car! :mad: :)
Actually I would love to go on a deep backwoods camping trip with the brake engineers of the SC. (ah...evil thoughts permiate my brain. You shore got a purty mouth there boy..........squeel like a pig! come on now...sooooweeee) ;)
I would also like to go deep sea fishing out into international waters with the electrical engineers of the SC. (Hows about a swim boys! Here put these flotation devices on...yes I know there heavy but its because you're not in the water yet, trust me they need to be heavier for salt water floatation)
How about a little mountain climbing with the powertrain engineers? (oh...I'm sorry, I did'nt mean to drop my pick axe since you're below me. Oh my gosh that entrance wound looks just like those CRAPPY exhaust ports you designed! or WOW Bob...those rocks are embedded real deep into your abdoman, you may need surgery...KINDA LIKE CHANGING SPARKPLUGS ON THE SC!!!!!!!!)
But mostly I would like to go on a trip into deep outer space with the Ford bean counters. Prehaps then while there spacecraft is slowly crumbling to pieces around them they would start to understand why it might not be such a good idea that the whole damn thing was only tack welded together, and not very good tacks either. Oh....and lets not forget the glue. :eek: (they say noone can hear you scream in space, but I'de have that capsule totaly wired for sound just so they could understand what a qaulity install trully is. I think it would make for nice listening to all the engineering depts. at Ford, if nothing else it should be very motivational) :D
I really dont believe that not hearing you scream in space theory myself. But I would love to be in charge of that experiment just for the oportunity to prove or disprove it, it would be for the betterment of mankind of course. ;) :D

WOW Frank!!! I'm not bored any longer, thank you! :) Waite a minute BORED.....hmmmmm......Hey Mr suspension engineer come here! See my new shiney drill press with 1 1/2" hole saw...oops, oh you tripped. buuuwaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!

I would now like to take a second to complain about our limited use of emotionacons. The limitations placed on me in this post has severly limited my ability to properly convey my feelings with my various statements.
Therefore noone is allowed to pick on me for any of the above as there is no way you can truly understand what I feel or my true meaning. I assure you that you have no idea how I really feel about some of that.
 
WOW Mike!!!!! I thought Frank was touchy feely!!!!!!!! :p :D

Thanks for sharing. :D

My supercoupe story is shorter. I love my car. :D
 
NCredSC said:
WOW Mike!!!!! I thought Frank was touchy feely!!!!!!!! :p :D

Thanks for sharing. :D

My supercoupe story is shorter. I love my car. :D

Well, I am sort of touchy feely "but only with chicks!" :D ;)
 
hmmmmm........

dirtybird91 said:
Well, I am sort of touchy feely "but only with chicks!" :D ;)

a poultry fetish eh?
I once knew a guy that worked at a fast food fried chicken joint...uhm..never mind....
 
MIKE 38sc said:
a poultry fetish eh?
I once knew a guy that worked at a fast food fried chicken joint...uhm..never mind....

my story it was hers now its mine

Frank ah ehrr never mind. Mike you agh I agh forget it .

any comment about the sc has been heard two thousand times,
Frank a turbo dont keep you warm at night,
to all the guys out there forget the bling bling women dont like it ,
its the shwing sh :D wing that keeps em comming back.
 
Frank, great story! I am sure a lot of us found a lot of familiar things here. For example, I don't let my girlfriend to drive my car too. When I am stressed, I know that me T-Bird is always ready to take me for a nice relaxing trip, or ready to smoke somebody of the light! Sometimes, she gives me hard time too ( tranny, head gasket, fuel pump, stalling engine... :eek: ) but after all, I love and appreciate the car and the company here, SSCoA! :)
 
Payton said:
Frank, great story! I am sure a lot of us found a lot of familiar things here. For example, I don't let my girlfriend to drive my car too. When I am stressed, I know that me T-Bird is always ready to take me for a nice relaxing trip, or ready to smoke somebody of the light! Sometimes, she gives me hard time too ( tranny, head gasket, fuel pump, stalling engine... :eek: ) but after all, I love and appreciate the car and the company here, SSCoA! :)


Yeah Yeah Yeah, misery loves company Payton. :) The first step to recovery is admiting you're a masocist, like the rest of us. :p
Here I'll start out.
Hi, my name is Mike and I'm a big ole masocist slave for my SC........Ahhhhhhh.....I feeel better already. :)
Let that girl drive that Bird, you'll thank me for it later. ;)
 
MIKE 38sc said:
Yeah Yeah Yeah, misery loves company Payton. :) The first step to recovery is admiting you're a masocist, like the rest of us. :p
Here I'll start out.
Hi, my name is Mike and I'm a big ole masocist slave for my SC........Ahhhhhhh.....I feeel better already. :)
Let that girl drive that Bird, you'll thank me for it later. ;)
Do you know how many times I told myself that? ;) My cousin always laughts at me, but who cares. I like the car, I have the money to fix it...life goes on ;)
Good thing my girlfriend doesn't know how much T-Bird cost me)))
 
MIKE 38sc said:
Manny!!!!!
so tell me......hows the casino buisness lately?
its great Mike my cut is small $15k a yr my parents get $100k a yr from it .

we are quechan part of navajo tribe our casino is in calif near yuma az small place called potholes

I personaly dont go there we are not allowed to gamble there, conflict of interest. .but we do go to the north to Avi near bullhead.

my money is spent before I ever get it bills lawsuits kids with no jobs, bringing home grand kids to live here.

we are moving this yr to az to be nearer relatives,

just riding you guys a little Im bored family life is not so full of exitment,

its raining so driving my sc is not so much fun ,

anyway Mike your story didnt sound like you you seem more intense, and the story was very funny and laid back actually very cool I laughed .

how we laugh at the truth lol I was in tears it was soo true . yet funny

yours truly mannysc turbo denial king. lol
 
Manny you're a funny guy. I just cant sleep so I'm here trying to relieve some stress my man.
Frank tolorates my aggrevation purty good and I think he knows I'm just hav'in alittle fun.
Weve all got denial problems about something Manny, yours just happens to be about turbo's. :p :p
Mine are much much more complicated I assure you. :eek:
I heard you were getting alittle rain out there. Bothering you so bad you want to move to the desert? Dude you'll be wishing for rain!
Well I geuss I'll go watch a movie now, talk to ya'll later. :)
 
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