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A strolling player
11/26/08

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Every '64-'66 T-bird I see is for sale. There's this one, there's my coworker's '65 that I sent to DOTSBE that's been for sale for a while, and there's a red '65 near my apartment that's been for sale for a while.

But why?
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MushyHeirloom
11/25/08

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Today's guess happened to be "'66 Lincoln", and this is the closest thing to a '66 Lincoln without a Lincoln badge.

Murilee, I sent you photos of a '67. They'd be cool to see, hint, hint.

These look better in pale green, by the way, but I sure wouldn't turn this one down. Lovely old boats, but not too big to handle. These had style, really the last Thunderbirds that could say that...
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Novaload
11/25/08

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T-bird all the way.

The only 60s Galaxie I want is the one that had the actual rocket tucked up underneath.
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bzr
11/25/08

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Galaxie or Thunderbird? Why must you make me choose? O cruel fate! O wretched God!
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Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
11/25/08

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Wow, that's nice. I love square 'Birds.
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Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
11/25/08

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Not a very good shot, but here's a Malaisebird for ya-

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brandegee
11/25/08

@Slantsick- 30 degrees off center: See, that's what DDT does to nature.
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Rust-MyEnemy
11/25/08

@brandegee: Aww, don't taunt it, it isn't fair. Teasing a Malaisebird about being shit is like telling the Elephant Man that he's ugly.
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Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
11/25/08

@Rust-MyEnemyHasLostHisCommentingMoj...: I've always found what was done to the Cougar to be much more offensive than the T-Bird saga.. The 'Bird really always was a luxobarge anyway.. This may also be just about the only example of deepening Malaise making a car better: A highschool friend had a '77ish T-bird, and with the "Aqua Moonmist" (or whatever) paint and velour, baskethandle roof, hidden headlights et al., it was ten times cooler than the Bird above.

Also, between her car and another buddy buying a '74 Impala Guzzler Luxus, people no longer looked askance at my Dart as "That big ugly old car"...
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mytdawg
11/25/08

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mytdawg
11/25/08

@mytdawg: Well the pictures aren't "all that" but it's a great song.
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Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
11/25/08

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Can I have the Country Squire, and use the 1200 I saved to build the most badass '58 Rambler Rebel ever?
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CypressCarNut
11/25/08

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My old man LOVED square birds. I so wanted to buy one as a project with him. Unfortunately, he passed away in July. I am still going to buy one one of these days. Either a '62 which was his favorite, or a '65 since it's the year I was born.
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Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
11/25/08

@Veni Vidi Propello-got tired of the old handle, now asking ...: I always thought "Squarebird" referred exclusively to the '58-'60 generation..

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west-coaster
11/25/08

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I'd take the T-Bird, 'cause all the chicks at the local nightlub in 1966 would totally dig it!

(And after parking it right out front, I'd saunter into the place in my white dinner jacket, skinny bow tie, freshly Brylcreem'd hair, and a king-size cigarette in my mouth. VERY Matt Helm, James Bond, Man From U.N.C.L.E., etc.)

BTW, shouldn't this car have fender skirts, or were they an option? (Or, were they pilfered years ago?)
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scroggzilla raids again
11/25/08

@west-coaster: I'm super spy Derek Flint, and I approved this fantasy

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Rust-MyEnemy
11/25/08

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Thunderbird meant Thunderbird in '66. and this one has the full length aerospace-style aluminium floor console. This is extremely cool.

In 1966 England won the soccer world cup and we felt good about ourselves for the first time in years. If we had all had 427 TBirds to cruise around in we would have felt pretty damned awesome and soccer would have become irrelevant.

Oooh, a world without soccer.

Wait a minute, I'm thinking.

*sigh*
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Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
11/25/08

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The Thunderbird was all about cruising in style, not raw power. So many body styles in its first decade or so. The quintessence of American "personal luxury" in the Cold War era. Keep your ZiL, Krushchev; WE'RE going to arrive in Capitalist style...
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clinto
11/25/08

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What good (fun) is power with an automatic?

I am taking the Galaxie, buying the beetle and putting a new Hurst shifter on the gold card. :D
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mytdawg
11/25/08

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I had to go with the Galaxie. 1 motor swap away from a 429 CJ. Actually I'm not Ford enough to know if that's a valid swap but it sounds good.

Those T-bird tail lights were some of the best ever. Sequential turn signals for the win.

Look at all that metal on the dash. Those were the days (that you injured yourself badly on the second collision).
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pauljones
11/25/08

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427, 425hp Thunderbird any day of the week. For drag strip duties, most automatics, even then, could shift as fast if not faster than a human could. And for day-to-day driving duties, those old four-speed combined with full-size (and corresponding full-weight) cars tamed by little more than drums could be quite a handful. Cool in concept, but I imagine it would get old pretty fast. Give it a couple of coats of House of Kolor Orion Silver Metallic, and brake and suspension upgrade, anf you have a bitchin' car that you can enjoy every day, in any situation.
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