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10-02-2020, 06:08 AM | #1 |
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Saturday first tour with the T-Bird
Today I am checking all the fluid levels, check the tires and make sure the lights work.Horn don't work yet?? Heater does we are driving in the Mountains temps 37 in the morning so will need heater.60 in the day. We are going with the Pittsburgh T-Bird Club. Most of them are driving Modern T-Birds the ugly ones. Ford sure did screw them up I think. Front or back ugly, had to be drunk when they design them.55, 56 and 57 are the real T-Birds in my book.I will let you know how the tour goes. Hope I don't come home on a rollback. That would be awful.
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10-02-2020, 11:18 AM | #2 |
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Re: Saturday first tour with the T-Bird
You have been driving and sorting it over the last few months so you have a good feel for its capabilities. It will do well. Ford built them to run, you just need to get your confidence in it built up.
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10-02-2020, 02:33 PM | #3 |
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Re: Saturday first tour with the T-Bird
I'm not really a T-Bird guy, but I agree that they completely threw away the concept of offering a 2-seater sports car altogether in the '58 and later model years. I suppose the marketing "experts" at Ford thought they could sell more T-birds by turning them into a semi-mid-size 4-seater car. But what about competing with the chebby Corvette?
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10-02-2020, 03:49 PM | #4 |
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Re: Saturday first tour with the T-Bird
My wife like the seat as far up close to the Steering Wheel and that with a bench seat my knees are up behind my ears. Not to comfortable for me. That why I want to put a split or bucket seat in the T-Bird.If you know someone that has seats for the later T-Bird for sale let me know that in good shape.Then I would have them redid to match like what in my T-Bird.
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10-03-2020, 01:11 PM | #5 |
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Re: Saturday first tour with the T-Bird
Ken,
I kind of felt out of place with all the modern birds today until you showed up. Nice real bird indeed. Dave White 57 |
10-03-2020, 02:58 PM | #6 |
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10-03-2020, 02:58 PM | #7 |
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Old Redneck, try contacting Gil Baumgartner (CTCI). He installed buckets in his 57 T-bird. He's rather tall and did not find the original seat comfortable.
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10-03-2020, 04:51 PM | #8 |
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Re: Saturday first tour with the T-Bird
Thanks Dave sure did studying you 57 T-Bird. You got it in very nice shape. I hope to get mine in decent shape down the road. Mine does seam not to be hard on gas. I want to make a trip down to Hill's to buy what I need. Going to order the Air Conditioning for my Bird. Glad to hear from you. Thanks for showing me your T-Bird.
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10-03-2020, 05:43 PM | #9 | |
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10-04-2020, 05:00 PM | #10 |
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I thought Ford did an admiral job with the 11th generation of the Thunderbird with all of the government standards along with safety which the early birds have 0. I just about drool over original early birds though. Have read the engine electronics on the dew birds can be a nightmare with no replacement parts since Ford and Jaguar parted ways. As the wife says "If wishes were fishes we'd all have a fry"
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