The Square Bird Is Hip: 1960 Ford Thunderbird

The second generation Ford Thunderbird (1958-1960) is a cool car. It was the first Thunderbird to get a rear seat — because Ford execs (a young Robert McNamara among them) felt it needed the extra passenger space and that it could still compete with Chevy’s Corvette. Welp…history has decided that they were wrong, because the Thunderbird was slowly boated into oblivion while the Corvette is a desirable classic and a new car showroom stunner to this day…but Ford sold 9 T-Birds for every 1 Corvette sold in the 1960 model year alone. With 200k T-Birds sold from 1958-1960 (versus 30k Vettes) you can figure the supply/demand thing out and you’ll find that the T-Bird is way cheaper on the open market today. Find this 1960 Ford Thunderbird offered for $7000 in Silsbee, TX via craigslist. Tip from Ramjet.

From the seller:

1960 ford thunderbird coupe
condition: good
cylinders: 8 cylinders
drive: rwd
fuel: gas
odometer: 119320
odometer rolled over
paint color: white
size: full-size
title status: clean
transmission: automatic
type: coupe

1960 Thunderbird original exterior white paint and black and white interior, redone the front floor pans, changed the drum brakes to disc brakes, new dual exhaust from manifold back. It does have some rust on the rock panels. The speed odometer shows 119,320 but the 352 engine has been rebuilt with only 400 miles on it.

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