When the time came for me to build a racecar, I looked around and found an unused 1988 Thunderbird fiberglass body to build a fast Turbo Coupe,” House says.Īfter House found the body he was looking for, he took it to James Smith at JSR Racing. We ended up putting 270,000 miles on that car. When I saw Bob Glidden win with one of these at Maple Grove, I decided I had to have one, so we bought one new in 1988. “The 1988 Turbo Coupe has always been one of my favorite cars. House already liked the lines of the Thunderbird Turbo Coupe, and after seeing one race in Pro Stock he had to have his own. There are plenty of tribute car projects that have been built over the years because of what a professional racer ran at the track. One of the best parts about drag racing is you can see a car on the track and very easily build your own version of it. This 1988 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe is House’s vision of what one of these cars should look like in full race trim when armed with a small displacement mill. Ford sold a lot of T-birds for this very reason, and Fred House was part of that trend. You could find plenty of Ford Thunderbirds participating in various forms of motorsports during the 1980s.
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