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Forget Barrett-Jackson: Dozens of '70 and '71 Thunderbirds Going For Peanuts

Since helping our Czech friend BobAsh get a Malaise Corvette from California to his homeland was so easy, I agreed to keep an eye open for a nice Crown Victoria Police Interceptor for him. After all, roaring through the streets of Prague in a genuine California cop car would be almost as much fun as roaring through the streets of San Francisco in a genuine Tatra 603. Last weekend I stopped by the auction yard at which I bought my Crown Vic a few years back, and found that the inventory included quite a few early 70s Ford Thunderbirds. In fact, the inventory was almost entirely 1970 and 1971 T-Birds. Make the jump for more photos and the rest of the story.

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11:00 AM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,479 views, 43 comments

Latest by kfdave: MUST NOT LOOK....Employer/Landlord will kill me if I buy another car.....These actions are where? more »

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Car Paintings By Robert Bechtle


When you're talking about painters who get the Jalopnik Stamp-O-Approval™, the Two Roberts come to mind immediately. You got your Robert Williams, of course, and then you got your Robert Bechtle... and what more could you need? I've got a print of Alameda Gran Torino hanging on my living-room wall, and it serves as inspiration every time I head out the door on a DOTS photo expedition (especially when I see a car like today's '65 Comet). I've gathered up a few of Bechtle's many car-themed paintings for our enjoyment on this fine Tuesday. [The New Yorker, SFMOMA]

1:30 PM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,347 views, 45 comments

Latest by n/a: I am amazed that only one previous comment even knew that the car in the pic was a Rambler and then wasn't sure of the year. It is a 1958 Rambler. The difference between the 58 & 59 was in more »

down on the street

1961 Ford Thunderbird

I've shot a few of Alameda's street-parked 60s Thunderbirds, but for some reason haven't yet posted any of them for this series. But today the Thunderbird drought ends, with this '61 that's a real survivor. Yes, that's the word for this beautifully wretched Ford, which is owned by the same guy who owns the equally wretched 1970 Chevy Impala we saw a while back. This Thunderbird has been a fixture on one of Alameda's main east-west thoroughfares for as long as I can remember; at its current rate of decay, it should be ready for The Crusher by about the year 2094.
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9:00 AM on Tue Dec 4 2007
By Murilee Martin
3,177 views, 38 comments

Latest by n/a: Poor thing. I have one just like it, except for the dents, bad paint, ripped up interior. In my humble opinion, the most beautiful graceful car to come out of the sixties (and there were lots of great cars then) more »

question of the day

Which Car Has Been Most Diluted Over Time?

A wonderful reader of ours (but aren't you all?) named James wrote in with today's query:
"I was ready to answer [yesterday's] PCH question by stating how clearly the '77 Corolla obviates today's model and how much fun it would be to
demonstrate that to an owner of the latter."
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12:00 PM on Tue Oct 16 2007
By Jonny Lieberman
3,851 views, 128 comments

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2008 Scottsdale Barrett-Jackson To Feature Only 1963 Ford Thunderbird 'Italien'

The big B-J auction just dropped a release to let us know the 2008 Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale will feature the 1963 Ford Thunderbird 'Italien' concept car. While very nice looking, if we're gonna spend money on a Ford-built concept car — heck, any concept car — we'd still rather have this 1993 Lincoln Mark VIII. What can we say — we totally digg the roll-up doors. Full release after the jump.
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12:45 PM on Thu Oct 11 2007
By Ray Wert
5,502 views, 14 comments

retro

Fords! Fords! Fords! for 1960!

You are about to enter a beautiful, exciting, wonderful new world — the world of nineteen sixty! It was a time when hyperbolic adjectifications passed for advertising. When men were gallant creatures, behatted and besmoked, and women felt as at home in chiffon and pearls as they did in house frocks and aprons. Well, maybe not exactly. But still, it was nineteen sixty, for fuck's sake, and Ford was on the move, Johnny! Not one, not two, but three new kinds of Ford cars for 1960 shot across the sky and materialized at the feet of white people plied with alcohol and giddy for the future. That's how they did it back then. Still, seems like they oversold the Falcon, no? – Mike Spinelli More »

1:30 PM on Tue Feb 6 2007
By Mike Spinelli
85 views, 6 comments

Latest by CafeRacer1200: Now, who in their right mind would flock around a Falcon when just a few feet away is a Thunderbird? That's a bit like strolling past a new Mustang saying, "Move this turd so's I can get to the more »