Faults:

The front brakes needed replaced.

It needed a power steering hose.

It badly needed a comprehensive tune-up.

It needed a carburetor rebuild.

It needed a vacuum advance on the distributor.

It needs a paint job.

General Comments:

This car was bought from the original owners in Nevada after being stored for 10 years.

All it needed before I drove it the 1200 miles home was a power steering hose, front brakes, and a serious tune up. The paint is very oxidized from years in the Nevada desert, but the interior is perfect. Still has the original center caps on the wheels and the blue-jeweled hood ornament.

The trip home was uneventful. The car cruised at 75 nearly the whole way and delivered me 15.6 miles per gallon.

Not many of these still around. It gets many looks and comments and I doubt that I will ever have another car. Even if the gas mileage is somewhat poor, it beats a car payment.

Faults:

Used to burn oil.

Great clouds of blue smoke would come out of here when started.

General Comments:

Just an overall great car.

Faults:

Usual things for an older car - brakes, tires, tuneup, etc.

General Comments:

Car for the most part is pretty good as a second car. A little stubborn when it has been sitting for a while. It does stall and backfire too and burns a lot of gas, but overall

It's a nice big beater to sport.

Faults:

This car was built solid unlike today's Fords. Apart from normal maintenance, this car ran despite the body falling apart from rust. The valves starting making noise at around 40000 km and it burned oil from that point on till I scrapped the car. Blue smoke would be shot out of the exhaust pipe.

General Comments:

Too bad Ford doesn't make cars like that again. Cast iron engines are the way, unlike today's aluminum engines. The 5 litre V8 was too small for a huge car like the Tbird. Unfortunately the 5.7 litre and the 6.6 litre engines were hard to come by that particular year.

Faults:

The transmission blew and was rebuilt. Haven't had to fix anything else major that I know about.

Driver's seat is pretty torn up.

There was no belts for the A/C or smog pump and I don't know if they work.

Has went into vapor lock once and hasn't done it again, at least yet.

Kind of pulls to one side, I believe from being in some type of accident, but the engine still runs great.

General Comments:

This has been a great car, it's my first, but it has done great and has only left me in despair twice.

Extremely reliable. Only cost $300 too, plus the rebuilt transmission.

I'm not sure on the miles because the dial only has 5 digits and shows around 65000, but I figure it's 165,000 because of how nice the engine still runs.