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Topic starter
13/07/2020 1:56 pm
PICs: Which Thunderbird? '63 or '63 '63 or '66 Thunderbird
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John Bono
North Jersey
13/07/2020 2:00 pm
63 by 10 miles....gorgeous car. The last T-Bird design that really grabbed me.
13/07/2020 3:15 pm
My choice of colors, '66. Colors as shown, '63.
Saint Clair Shores, Michigan
Topic starter
13/07/2020 4:21 pm
It's a 1 of 1.
John Bono
North Jersey
13/07/2020 5:10 pm
The 63 for me. That 66 top design looks like a hearse. Really ugly styling.
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
13/07/2020 5:35 pm
After the passage of 50+ years, I had to stop and try to remember which of these Thunderbirds is the older. Just looking at them, I at first could not remember and also could not tell. I think it's because Ford made annual changes sometimes just to make changes. The reasoning of that time (more in the 50's) was that the annual styling change brought new sales. Car companies that resisted such annual model changes (Hudson, Packard, Nash) lost sales because of this, or so that was the reason often given.
Or maybe it's late at night and I'm just not remembering those styling changes correctly.
13/07/2020 5:59 pm
That makes it a Lightning Bird instead of Thunderbird.
13/07/2020 8:55 pm
Pic: Don't care for either pictured; a '66 convertible would be nice.
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T-birds to my styling taste '55 - '60, '64 - '66 don't care for the rest until '87 - '88 Turbo Coupe
14/07/2020 12:26 am
‘66
Topic starter
14/07/2020 12:29 am
David, the top pic is the '63 and bottom pic is the '66.
John Bono
North Jersey
14/07/2020 12:53 am
1963 for sure, but like them both.
Retired in Dunedin, Florida.
14/07/2020 1:14 am
1963!
14/07/2020 1:58 am
I like both but then I'm prejudiced toward the 63.
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