My poor T-Bird has been sitting for so long now it’s not even funny. It sat for a long time at the old place, then Hubby drove it over here when we moved. I was going to, but I was having to fight with the steering and made him do it.

I would love to be able to get some work done on it and drive it. It runs awesome, just needs a good tune-up and a couple of small repairs. It needs a new AC compressor, although that’s not at the top of my list. It gets pretty hot around here, but one can usually cope with the windows down. It’s also still dying a lot when you take off, even if you let it warm up. It’s got a new alternator and alternator belt, so I’m not sure what the problem is there. Maybe the idling needs to be adjusted, but from what I’ve heard that’s no small task on that model.

None of this is going to happen for a while anyway. I can’t even afford to get the work done on my truck that it needs, and I’m still paying on it. I’m hoping that maybe we’ll get a little money back on our taxes and I can pay it off early, and that will leave some extra money each month that I might be able to put toward my car. We shall see. But I really hate to see it just sitting there going downhill. It could be a pretty nice ride with some TLC.

I have had my Thunderbird in the paper several times, but had no takers on it. So I still have it. I would love to keep it forever, because that was my dad’s baby. The only reason I considered selling it was because we needed the money. But I’m not letting it go for peanuts, and I guess that’s why nobody’s interested.

It’s in good shape now, but I would love to fix it up nice. That’s one car that I could actually get into hood scoops and car spoilers for. But I’m planning on keeping everything as it was when it came from the factory, because that’s how my dad would have wanted it. And it’s a pretty darn spiffy car without adding any aftermarket stuff to it.

I would like to find a set of the wheels that came on it that were in better shape, and get it a good paint job. And the power windows could use new motors. Other than that, all it needs is a good tune-up. Maybe one day I’ll get around to doing all that and put it back on the road.