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(23,562 posts)What year ?
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Archae
(46,262 posts)Thunderbird.
(big sigh)
Haggard Celine
(16,820 posts)Walleye
(30,724 posts)stopdiggin
(11,095 posts)I don't think the 55 had the continental kit (spare tire). Then 57, had just a bit of a 'fin' on rear fenders.
Walleye
(30,724 posts)Paul Drake drove one of those in the first season of Perry Mason. My first car was a 1956 Buick Century station wagon with Dynaflow transmission
Docreed2003
(16,817 posts)That was added in 56, as was the porthole roof windows. That roof is plain, so I wonder if it's a replacement?
a kennedy
(29,467 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Last edited Sun Sep 12, 2021, 03:26 PM - Edit history (1)
I had a chance to buy a '56 T-Bird for $1,000 as my first car many, many moons ago, but my father nixed it because he said it was too small and he feared for my safety. Thanks, Dad (I guess).
I ended up with a '60 Chevy Impala Convertible.
2naSalit
(86,069 posts)Beautiful.
doc03
(35,148 posts)showroom condition. That is the color of the one on display in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn. He also has one of the retro Thunderbirds in robin egg blue must be about 2002. I remember he paid $10000 over sticker for it.
Biophilic
(3,487 posts)We lived in a kind of weird neighborhood. The guy who owned the thunderbird lived in a very modest Frank Lloyd Wright house. We were on a dirt road in town. He always drove the speed limit, but he never slowed down to save his car from rocks or holes in the road. He obviously loved that car. It was always clean in the mid 50s when it meant you had washed it yourself.