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 […]
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With a few exceptions, most American cars from the 1980’s don’t get a ton of love from enthusiasts. The Thunderbird Turbo Coupe won Motor Trend’s car of the year for 1987, but still couldn’t one up the Ford Mustang. The bird’s 2.3 turbo had 190hp vs the SVO’s 205hp and the 5.0 V8 in the […]
Modified Ford Mustangs are a dime a dozen so it takes a lot to come across one that is out of the ordinary. Ford’s Thunderbird Super Coupe was available from 1989-1995 with a 3.8 pushrod V-6 huffed on by a Eaton M90 supercharger that was good for up to 230 hp and 330 lbs of […]
There were no shortage of big domestic coupes to chose from in 1970’s. However, it rare see them on the road these days. The Malaise era land yachts were big on the outside and small on the inside. Their asthmatic V8 engines got gas mileage in the teens and baroque styling stands out like […]
Find this 1983 Ford Thunderbird Heritage here on eBay bidding for $2,300 with a few hours to go, located in Mount Carmel, TN. From ebay listing: I have a 1983 Ford Heritage Thunderbird for sale. This is one of the sharpest 83 Thunderbirds out there, it has a custom turquoise paint job highlighted with teal […]
It is hard to remember, but at one point in time the Ford Thunderbird was a legitimate competitor to the Chevrolet Corvette. A dozen years later and the T-Bird had pulled an Elvis and got fattened up with fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches before being sent to an early grave, while the Vette continues […]
As the TV show The Wonder Years grew up with its audience, so did the Thunderbird. The trim, stylish dude with a pack of cigs in his sleeve who bought a ’55 could stroll right back in to the Ford showroom sixteen years later in a bowling shirt covered in mustard and still find his […]
The tenth generation Ford Thunderbird was released in 1989 and within a few months the Super Coupe (SC) version was Motor Trend’s Car of the Year. Luckily for people who like cheap cars, the COTY award is worth about as much as one of those 4×6 pre-paid post cards that fall out of automotive magazines […]
The tenth generation Ford Thunderbird was released in 1989 (along with the Mercury Cougar) on the MN12 platform, which distanced it from the Mustang it had previously shared the Fox platform with. New to the 10th gen T-Bird was an independent rear suspension, a supercharged V6 and a Mazda sourced 5-speed manual gearbox. But if […]