Classic Cars and Trucks / Photos Specs Model History, Production Numbers
As a side note, the “Thunderbird” name was drawn from an in-house contest at Ford Motor Company. The winning employee, a Ford stylist, won a suit from Saks Fifth Avenue. The first 1955 Ford Thunderbird was built in September 1954 in Dearborn, Michigan. Another important thing to note was that the Ford Thunderbird was not …
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The 1961 Ford Thunderbird represented the beginning of the third generation Thunderbirds and they were sleeker than the ones before them. Chevrolet was the first of the Detroit automakers to test the sports car market with the introduction of their Corvette. Ford of course wanted to follow suit and did so with it’s first Thunderbird. …
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The Ford Thunderbird first came out in 1955 and was essentially meant to be competition to the Chevy Corvette the first American automobile that attempted to take some of the sales away from European sports car makers. The Chevy Corvette had to start with only an inline six cylinder engine but the power would grow …
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