This next car comes as a tip from Art C who writes: These have to be going up soon… never see them around anymore. This one looks pretty good and priced very reasonably… restore it to factory condition, drive it a bit, then sell it on barret jackson in a coupla years for some profit?? […]
The Ford Thunderbird started life as a lithe 2-seat sports car competing directly with the Chevy Corvette – but by 1967, by then in its 5th generation, it had morphed into a big block monster of a 2-door, and was being driven upmarket by sales of the super popular Ford Mustang. It was restyled in […]
This next car is gonna turn some heads…seriously, it is a good looking beast. It appears, at first glance, to be a first generation (1955-1957) Thunderbird, but is actually something built in the late 1970s/early 80s by a guy named Harry Shay. Read more about the history of the Shay T-Birds on this website, or […]
I don’t normally like the look of cars when they are painted white. Vans, trucks, and pickups look appropriate in the presence of all colors, but cars from the baddest Lamborghini to the classic ’65 Mustang just look out of place in plain white without some sort of flair…maybe a racing stripe, or some blacked […]
I hate that classic cars has become a lot like collecting stamps, where low mileage is more important that actual condition and things are only original once…but mostly the prices people want for these things. Anyway, if I’m going to get a really low mile car from the past, it’ll be something like this T-Bird […]
This next car comes from tipper Matt C who writes; You’d posted about how you can’t find anything from the muscle car era with two doors, intact sheet metal, and a big V8 at the $5000 mark. Challenge accepted! Not sure what the engine size is, but it’s probably a 390. Some of the broken interior trim […]
If the universe is indeed as infinitely large as the astrophysicists and heliocentric heretics would have us believe, then Dean Koontz was on to something when he wrote: “In an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.” Imagine for a minute that in 2002 when Ford brought out its retro-styled 78th generation Thunderbird […]
Whenever someone (usually a new acquaintance, typically in an elevator, or other confined space with little escape like a sauna or an any gender restroom, who was trying to hide in his/her phone) asks me what, exactly, is Daily Turismo? I pause, and attempt to articulate that it is a blog masquerading as a media […]
The seventh generation of the Ford Thunderbird was released in 1978 and it was a miserably slow car. Blame it on the aging buyers who wanted a gushy & quiet ride, or the ever-increasing safety standards that added weight, or the ever-tightening emission standards that choked power, but the biggest beast of a V8 engine […]
Tipper SecondMouse sent in the following car with these words of wisdom: You say you’re dying to do some smoky burnouts in a RWD 2 door V8 with 4 wheel independent suspension, but you don’t have a champagne budget, or even a beer budget (more like a tap water budget)? SecondMouse has you covered with a […]