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1959 Ford Thunderbird convertible. For the 1959 model year, Ford made changes to the front, rear, and side ornamentation; leather upholstery was available for the first time. The rear suspension was revised, discarding coil springs for Hotchkiss drive with parallel leaf springs.
The Ford Thunderbird is a personal luxury car manufactured and marketed by Ford Motor Company for model years 1955 to 2005, with a hiatus from 1998–2001.. Ultimately gaining a broadly used colloquial nickname, the T-Bird, Ford Introduced the model as a two-seat convertible, subsequently offering it variously in a host of body styles including as a four-seat hardtop coupe, four-seat ...
Bill Bates' 1959 Ford Thunderbird. I met Bates when I was a young reporter back in 1990, working on a story about how financial issues could mean the end of the Franklin Township Volunteer Fire ...
The first generation of the Ford Thunderbird is a two-seat convertible produced by Ford for the 1955 to the 1957 model years, the first 2-seat Ford since 1938. It was developed in response to the 1953 Motorama display at the New York Auto Show , which showed the Chevrolet Corvette .
The mid-Sixties Ford Thunderbird was a full-on luxury cruiser. It's about as far as you can get from a Shelby Cobra or even a Shelby Mustang. And yet this T-Bird served as Carroll Shelby's company ...
This 1962 Ford Seattle is among 100 concept car images that Ford Motor Co. just added to its online archive site. Images are now available to the public for free downloading.
Ford Country Squire (1955-1959) Ford Fairlane Crown Victoria (1955–1956) Ford Fairlane (1955–1956) Ford Thunderbird (1955–1957) Hudson Hornet (1955-1957) Imperial Crown (1955–1956) Jeep DJ (1955–1965) Nash Metropolitan (1955) Nash Metropolitan (1955-1958) Plymouth Belvedere (1955-1956) Plymouth Savoy (1955-1956) Pontiac Chieftain ...
It was used in the Ford Thunderbird, 1959-60 Edsel, Mercury, and some high-end Ford cars. The Ford version was the P-code "Thunderbird V8", which for cars equipped with a manual transmission had a compression ratio of 8.1:1 and was rated at 193 bhp (144 kW) at 4,400 rpm and with 280 lb⋅ft (380 N⋅m) at 2,600 rpm.