1967 Thunderbird .. your thoughts
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1967 Thunderbird .. your thoughts
Gentlemen,
I'm going to look at one on Saturday. Supposedly one owner, #s matching, mostly original, one repaint at a very manageble price. Curious if anybody here ever owned one and what do you think of them overall ?
Thanks,
Lou
I'm going to look at one on Saturday. Supposedly one owner, #s matching, mostly original, one repaint at a very manageble price. Curious if anybody here ever owned one and what do you think of them overall ?
Thanks,
Lou
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Very nice riding cars, with quiet power. Had a '64. Loved that car. My uncle had the suicide 4 door when I was a kid. It left a lasting impression on me.
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Very cool ride! The 390 can move that 'bird along effortlessly, and with a c-6 and 9" rear, it's bulletproof. If the interior is nice and clean, and the car is all there, it is worth getting. I won't ask how much, but if it is less than $4,500..... You are getting a lot of car for small money!
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I'm a little gun shy because the biggest piece of **it I ever owned was a 1988 T-Bird Turbo Coupe. Don't want to make the same mistake again.
#12
Very cool ride! The 390 can move that 'bird along effortlessly, and with a c-6 and 9" rear, it's bulletproof. If the interior is nice and clean, and the car is all there, it is worth getting. I won't ask how much, but if it is less than $4,500..... You are getting a lot of car for small money!
I'm pleasantly surprised no one poo pooed it. Thanks for the input Gentlemen.
#13
I also have some interest in 67-69 'Birds but all the nice ones I find are way away from here. I don't want to take on a project because they're complex cars without much parts support.
Talking with people who fool with Glamour Birds, they say 67 has a lot of one-year parts and quirks and the 68-9 have more in common with later Fords. I like the 67 styling best as I think it's the purest and cleanest of the three years (yah the 70 is basically the same car but I don't like that beak).
I'm also real picky about the bodystyle. First choice is the hardtop coupe without vinyl roof, then a vinyl roof car, then the four-door. Absolutely do not want a Town or Landau Coupe because of those huge blind sail panels.
An uncle had a 68 four-door which was a nice car but sprung too soft for me. An hour's ride in the back seat of that car would make me carsick and that's the only car that ever did that to me. That one also had a lot of power window troubles but I think that was because the dealer kept replacing window motors instead of finding out why they were failing. Several times he didn't get back home with the car before the windows would quit again. But, that was before I started fooling much with cars and especially their electrical systems.
The sequential taillights are beyond cool (notice Ford brought them back on Mustang) but the early electro-mechanical stepper switches can be troublesome after many years. The great thing is there's electronic conversions for them. Buddy put the electronic on his 67 Cougar after three years fumbling with the stepper switch and is well pleased.
Talking with people who fool with Glamour Birds, they say 67 has a lot of one-year parts and quirks and the 68-9 have more in common with later Fords. I like the 67 styling best as I think it's the purest and cleanest of the three years (yah the 70 is basically the same car but I don't like that beak).
I'm also real picky about the bodystyle. First choice is the hardtop coupe without vinyl roof, then a vinyl roof car, then the four-door. Absolutely do not want a Town or Landau Coupe because of those huge blind sail panels.
An uncle had a 68 four-door which was a nice car but sprung too soft for me. An hour's ride in the back seat of that car would make me carsick and that's the only car that ever did that to me. That one also had a lot of power window troubles but I think that was because the dealer kept replacing window motors instead of finding out why they were failing. Several times he didn't get back home with the car before the windows would quit again. But, that was before I started fooling much with cars and especially their electrical systems.
The sequential taillights are beyond cool (notice Ford brought them back on Mustang) but the early electro-mechanical stepper switches can be troublesome after many years. The great thing is there's electronic conversions for them. Buddy put the electronic on his 67 Cougar after three years fumbling with the stepper switch and is well pleased.
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