There was art , stylistic beauty in the design. No longer. Just safety bubbles, homogenous blobs by automakers whose nepotism and interbreeding result in indistinguishable platforms of mobile appliances. So sad.
It wouldn’t look this beautiful. Up through the 5th generation, they were some gorgeous cars. These days, they’d scream middle-aged corporate man having a midlife crisis. I’d love to be proven wrong, but it’d seem apparent.
@@CKru8789 I'd be skeptical too, for example the revived early 2000's Thunderbird was ok, but certainly not a stunner. But if it did come back, it'd probably be a man's midlife crisis vehicle. Then again, so is the Corvette, and let's be honest, its not the first time in Thunderbird's history it was a midlife crisis vehicle, in fact its kind of been that way since new! Not a thing wrong with that though.
They did once, and it sucked. To bring it back and not to be a mid-life crisis car as the two respondents below aptly put it (nailed it, actually) would be to bring back the square bird. Big. Square. Four Door. Regal. Oh My those triple tail-lights on each side. This would be one luxury car with the Thunderbird lineage, family sized and a huge hit for people sick and tired of SUV's .
So this young professional, apparently making good money to afford a T Bird convertible and whose wife is taking a train trip, decided to run it down his farmland checking his irrigation ditches- while in a sport coat and tie- then pick up his wife at the station, breathlessly. If I had this car, the last thing I would do is drive where he did, at the rate he did.
Yeah, he apparently dropped her off, checked his irrigation ditches on his farm while driving a convertible WHITE thunderbird with the top down, and wearing a sport coat and tie. Spot on ad Ford Motor Company, you nailed the consumer's market dead center.
Ford needed to offer a fast-back model. Take the 62 T-bird and add the 61 Starliner's hardtop....then add a Lincoln 430 engine with dual quad carbs, with some having manual trannies. What a car what would have been. PS--Plymouth should have offered a 452 ci engine instead of the 440.
That would've made it a downright screamer, no doubt. But luxury was still higher priority, above sportiness, and i'd atribute that to why such options never came to be.
There was a Thunderbird Italien concept. Which pretty much was what ypu described. Got restored and looks absolutely gorgeous. If only that made it into production.
One of the most gorgeous cars made by Ford.
That's an understatement.
Back in the day when cars were beautiful.
There was art , stylistic beauty in the design. No longer. Just safety bubbles, homogenous blobs by automakers whose nepotism and interbreeding result in indistinguishable platforms of mobile appliances. So sad.
Man O Man that's the good life!
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Ford should bring back the Thunderbird.
It wouldn’t look this beautiful. Up through the 5th generation, they were some gorgeous cars. These days, they’d scream middle-aged corporate man having a midlife crisis. I’d love to be proven wrong, but it’d seem apparent.
@@CKru8789 I'd be skeptical too, for example the revived early 2000's Thunderbird was ok, but certainly not a stunner. But if it did come back, it'd probably be a man's midlife crisis vehicle. Then again, so is the Corvette, and let's be honest, its not the first time in Thunderbird's history it was a midlife crisis vehicle, in fact its kind of been that way since new! Not a thing wrong with that though.
They did once, and it sucked. To bring it back and not to be a mid-life crisis car as the two respondents below aptly put it (nailed it, actually) would be to bring back the square bird. Big. Square. Four Door. Regal. Oh My those triple tail-lights on each side. This would be one luxury car with the Thunderbird lineage, family sized and a huge hit for people sick and tired of SUV's .
So this young professional, apparently making good money to afford a T Bird convertible and whose wife is taking a train trip, decided to run it down his farmland checking his irrigation ditches- while in a sport coat and tie- then pick up his wife at the station, breathlessly. If I had this car, the last thing I would do is drive where he did, at the rate he did.
faster than a speeding train!
Yeah, he apparently dropped her off, checked his irrigation ditches on his farm while driving a convertible WHITE thunderbird with the top down, and wearing a sport coat and tie. Spot on ad Ford Motor Company, you nailed the consumer's market dead center.
Ford needed to offer a fast-back model. Take the 62 T-bird and add the 61 Starliner's hardtop....then add a Lincoln 430 engine with dual quad carbs, with some having manual trannies. What a car what would have been. PS--Plymouth should have offered a 452 ci engine instead of the 440.
That would've made it a downright screamer, no doubt. But luxury was still higher priority, above sportiness, and i'd atribute that to why such options never came to be.
There was a Thunderbird Italien concept. Which pretty much was what ypu described. Got restored and looks absolutely gorgeous. If only that made it into production.
Gigantic, But still beautiful!
Gigantic my ass
they're a little bit smaller than a crown vic, not that big