![]() Mom sold the Electra to pay for funeral expenses and got herself a brand new 86 Regal, which was the last car she ever owned. He wanted a Fleetwood Brougham like his buddy across the street. He was strictly a yahoo when it came to cars, "Buy American" till he dropped. He kept that car (and Mom got herself a 71 Caprice) until he died in 1985. I picked it out - I liked the color and the fact that it had dual 6-way power seats. There are 299 1961 Ford Thunderbird for sale right now - Follow the Market and get notified with new listings and sale prices. He got a nice tax check back and then - drunk as a skunk, bless him, he took yours truly to a cockfight, a speakeasy and then to a Buick dealer where he got the last car he'd ever own, a burnt yellow 1975 Buick Electra Limited Coupe, loaded. Dad got a 66 Chevy Impala coupe just to get him back and forth to work until he decided what else to buy. There are 743 new and used classic Ford Thunderbirds listed for sale near you on with prices starting as low as 1,195. Posted on The 1961 Ford Thunderbird represented the beginning of the third generation Thunderbirds and they were sleeker than the ones before them. Some neighborhood boys found her wrapped around a pole during a rainstorm about five blocks from our house, bruised up but okay. 1960 Ford Thunderbird Convertible - 430 J code with Holley fuel injection, automatic, power steering. My mom wrecked that one - she knew squat about engines and thought she could handle this one like she could the first Charger. ![]() He replaced that with a 70 Charger R/T Magnum that he kept for a couple of years. He had the charred hulk towed home with hopes of repairing it, but like the salvage of the Normandie turned turtle at her pier, the money and effort would not have been worth it. He got out about a minute or so before the car became engulfed in flames. The American Dream has never been a static affair. ![]() The original two-seat Thunderbirds of 1955-57 are called the Baby Birds. Somehow, the generations of Ford Thunderbird often manage to inspire nicknames. More important than the high performance is the. Still, the road testers concluded that the Thunderbird was worth every penny. In my dream driveway, the T-Bird was were replaced by an ever changing palette of GM’s finest. With their pure, projectile-like styling, the third-generation 1961-63 Thunderbirds have become known as the Bullet Birds. To provide a measure of commonsense, a Ford Anglia cost £589. Mark of Excellence, and my brief childhood love affair with Ford was mostly over. Several cars honked at him as he pulled over, "Hey, dude, your trunk is on fire. The squared-off, fussy 1964 T-Bird confirmed my defection to the Church of St. Dad's Charger was a nice one (383 4bbl), but rather short-lived in 1974, he dropped a cigarette into the trunk while on a fishing trip, and he forgot about it until he was on I-95 when he smelled smoke.
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