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Originally Posted by Tim Cole
John:
Your 79 Burnt Orange looks remarkably nice for being unrestored. The paint seems to still have a nice lustre. Looks great. I need to tell my wife that your wife actually uses it as a daily driver the in the warm months. WOW!!! The raised white letter tires with hubcaps looks snappy. Nice touch. Is it an Illinois car?
Per your note, what parts were you looking for?
Tim
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Tim, thanks for the nice compliments on our Bird! It is actually originally an Indiana car. When we bougt it last year, it came with paperwork detailing pretty much every repair ever done on the car, dating back to the original owner who had the car until 2007. I'm guessing that the orig. owner kept it garaged, and drove it very sparingly(if at all)during the winter. The paint is still exceptionally nice; it does have a little bit of spiderwebbing on the left rear quarter, and some minor rock chips here and there.
The parts that I'm looking for are the left front mudflap(factory style black with Tbird logo), and a tan drivers' side interior door panel(manual windows and locks). I am also considering replacing the rear bumper sometime down the road as ours has a fair amount of pitting on it.
I pulled the Bird into the garage yesterday afternoon and polished it up. Here are some new pics: