Isn’t there a bumper sticker for that circuit?
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Thunderbird Club
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Cool! So you frenched the doors. Any other body mods?
And don’t forget to check the oil in the air cleaner, it gets cruddy fast.
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Always Standard Gauge. I'm living in the '70s......
My inspiration........Hiland, CA 2-77
Me trying to cop it in 2022
I have a Bird painted in a similar color.
Where the green things are....
So I guess in your world it IS easy being green.Always Standard Gauge. I'm living in the '70s......
My inspiration........Hiland, CA 2-77
Me trying to cop it in 2022
I have a Bird painted in a similar color.
Where the green things are....
Well there’s this:
Also I removed the front turn signals/replaced with bullet lights under the bumper, removed the side chrome strips, and changed to early side mirrors.
I love your train work! Such attention to detail and realism. No doubt that you could market your services to custom make model rail cars from actual pics. I bet people would pay good money to have one of your originals.Always Standard Gauge. I'm living in the '70s......
My inspiration........Hiland, CA 2-77
Me trying to cop it in 2022
I have a Bird painted in a similar color.
Where the green things are....
Something way cool would be a pic of one of your custom built cars on a portable diorama set along side the actual car (or at least a similar one) on a railroad track for scale.
The TC Polytune is kind of like that. Just hit all the strings at the same time.
Wait a minute! Suicide doors???
I’m in love! That’s total RestoRod stuff there!
Yeah I was hanging around with hot rod types in the 90’s
It was a basket case. Most of the bottom 10 inches of the car has been replaced.
I've been playing a bit with the 2018 Thunderbird and it's now settling in pretty well. So far it does seem my observations were correct: the SITs have a very similar tone to the RS66, just fuller. We'll see how they settle in. It's been a long time.
Only design comment I have is that it should've had an ebony fretboard. The much lighter rosewood, or whatever they were using in 2018, is really nice on its own, but it really looks out of place on an otherwise all black bass.
Only design comment I have is that it should've had an ebony fretboard. The much lighter rosewood, or whatever they were using in 2018, is really nice on its own, but it really looks out of place on an otherwise all black bass.
(...are we SURE this couldn't be a self-standing forum...?)
OK...I got this T-Bird bass I'm ready to wire up with Performance pickups...looked for a diagram...no, it's not a Pro IV setup...so I find a diagram and it shows a toggle switch in the works...T-birds don't DO toggles, do they (unless modified)?
Is there a diagram I'm missing?
If it's just standard T-bird, this wiring will work:
I don't have access to my PC atm, which has more, so I borrowed that from Wiring Harness for Gibson Thunderbird Bass: PRO
Hope that helps?
Easy for you to say, you’re one of the handful I would have expected to get it without having to google OBD. @KaraQ and a dozen others would be in my handful that get it list as well. To a degree ya gotta be a gear head or a car nut or someone who at least tinkers with cars made after the mid 1990’s. That be you bub!
If the shoe fits, jump on in the waters fine!
Everybody doesn't know what OBD is?!
My car (aka, Suburban) is special, and falls into the few years of the in-between times.......after OBD-none, before OBD-2 ----- the dreaded? OBD-1
The 91 Stealth TT I raced was a great example of OBDI. You could mod the 7ell out of it and never throw a code. Bad news was it had all the vacuum lines plus all the computer circuits. Good luck troubleshooting.If it's just standard T-bird, this wiring will work:
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I don't have access to my PC atm, which has more, so I borrowed that from Wiring Harness for Gibson Thunderbird Bass: PRO
Hope that helps?
Everybody doesn't know what OBD is?!
My car (aka, Suburban) is special, and falls into the few years of the in-between times.......after OBD-none, before OBD-2 ----- the dreaded? OBD-1
I'll also add that now having more experience with the Babicz and Hipshot bridges, the one big advantage with the Babicz for me is more much precise back-and-forth saddle movement for intonation setting.
Sure, why not? What could possibly go wrong with moral relativism as a principle? It's not like history has given any examples of things going badly. OK, upon further reflection that's not a good example....
Mind swinging by and picking me up? I love to take a ride in baby!
But, only reason I found that out was because one of the saddle things was blocking the front bolt, which I needed to remove. That's silly design IMO.
Well, how have the codes changed from '59 to present, and does Gibson reuse codes like serial numbers?
Classic! Unfortunately, probably only a handful of club members will get that joke! Well played
Reader on my modern Thunderbird yielded "Faulty player" breaker has been overused.
(Of course finding a place to connect the reader on the '59 would be a bit of a challenge.)
Sure there is, keep looking for the pickup coil.You silly. There aren’t any pickups in that Thunderbird diagram, just a two seat convertible. If it helps, I could post a Thunderbird wiring diagram for a two wheel variant made by Triumph. Not to be confused with a four string Triumph made by Gibson.
Now even I am getting confused.
