{"id":1316,"date":"2019-09-24T19:50:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T00:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/?page_id=1316"},"modified":"2019-09-24T21:14:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T02:14:02","slug":"1988-turbo-coupe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/automobiles-and-projects\/1988-turbo-coupe\/","title":{"rendered":"1988 Turbo Coupe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In early 2008 I really didn&#8217;t need another car project&#8230;but then nobody usually needs ANOTHER car project. However, I had a 1986 Thunderbird Turbo Coupe that I drove for years in the late 1980&#8217;s that I really liked. I really liked the 1987 and 1988 years but kind of forgot about them for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I ran across this old &#8216;bird listed online for under $700 and was quite interested from the first sight.  Below is a rather recent picture but she sure didn&#8217;t start out like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"765\" src=\"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2011-279975_2262475328221_7449259_o-1024x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2011-279975_2262475328221_7449259_o-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2011-279975_2262475328221_7449259_o-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2011-279975_2262475328221_7449259_o-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2011-279975_2262475328221_7449259_o-1200x896.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2011-279975_2262475328221_7449259_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is more representative of how it all started in 2008..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/www_IMG_0381-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/www_IMG_0381-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/www_IMG_0381-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/www_IMG_0381-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/www_IMG_0381-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/www_IMG_0381.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Follow along with some of the rebuild information for more details&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early 2008 I really didn&#8217;t need another car project&#8230;but then nobody usually needs ANOTHER car project. However, I had a 1986 Thunderbird Turbo Coupe that I drove for years in the late 1980&#8217;s that I really liked. I really liked the 1987 and 1988 years but kind of forgot about them for a long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/automobiles-and-projects\/1988-turbo-coupe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;1988 Turbo Coupe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1327,"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1316\/revisions\/1327"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}