This made it easy for me to send a trusted car guy (my brother) to take a look at the car in person and hear it run.

The interesting part was that the car was being offered for sale by a dealership very close to where I grew up in Ohio (and where my mother and brother still lived).

Best of all, it only had 55,000 miles on it (verifiable by the 6 digit odometer). This one had the OEM JBL stereo with CD (mine just had the premium cassette system), a 4-speed automatic (my old one had a manual), and no sunroof (my first one had the power moonroof). This one was equipped very much like my first one, with some slight differences. This particular SC was a 1989 model like the one I had, and was dark blue with a blue interior like my first one, and looked and ran like new based on the photos and YouTube video posted in the ad. It didn’t take long for me to locate a very interesting candidate to buy through an online collector car website. Although the production numbers were relatively low (about 12,000 made in ’89, for instance), they weren’t that hard to find on eBay or the old car classifieds, probably because the cars attracted a pretty serious fan base who were dedicated to keeping these cars on the road. It wasn’t until I sold the 2006 Subaru I described a couple of weeks ago that I decided to look for Super Coupes more seriously. Let’s get into it…Īfter selling my first ’89 Thunderbird SC way back in 1991, I had kept my eye open for SCs for sale, first in the used car ads and then (as time went on) in the old car classifieds. This was my first real entry into the “collector” car market with a car purchased solely for shows and occasional driving. The car itself is one that I’ve now owned twice in my lifetime, and I plan on keeping this Thunderbird for a long time to come.

We have reached a bit of a milestone with this week’s entry – this is the first car in my COAL series that I still own today.

92 thunderbird super coupe