Spinning right behind this mill is a correct rebuilt 3-speed automatic Cruise-O-Matic transmission with a Ford 9-inch 3.00 rear. It has been rebuilt but is correct for this car. Let's make this a rarer bullet and ogle over the fact this car does not have the tilt away steering column.Ī 300hp 390ci V8 sits in a clean engine bay. Gauges are all functioning, the power front driver's seat is functioning, and even the clock works! Carpet is nice and this car has an AM/FM radio. May have been an early build? Tan padded vinyl makes up the curved dash which is above the swooping ribbed aluminum. Interesting that this model has the power window toggles located in the doors and not the center console. Seats are newly fitted with leather, and padding is excellent. Literally surrounded by horizontal ribbed aluminum trim below the dash, this swoop styling runs right down into a center console/glove compartment. Badging and wheel covers are correct, and the rear window is clean and clear plastic. It truly is a marvel of automotive engineering taken to excess, and not to mention just fun to watch it perform this function, slipping right into the trunk, all automatically, and now, all solid state. The canvas beige power top has been converted to solid state and floats up and down with the touch of a button. Fender skirts and the thruster shaped rear taillights create what is my personal favorite bird shape. Fit and finish is fair to good with some inconsistent gaps, but panels are straight and not rusted or dented. A repaint, rebuilt engine and brake system, and a modified system for the convertible stowage, turn the key and drive away in your new “bullet bird”.īorrowing its nickname literally by imitating a bullet with its exterior styling, this beauty has a Honey Beige respray. This one remains true to form, well maintained and mostly original looking. This convertible is perfect for a boulevard cruise that will certainly turn heads. To mirror these times Ford Motor Company put elements of design into the Thunderbird for 1961.Ī Jet Age front, thruster rear taillight configuration, all in sophisticated Honey Beige attire. The Jet Age is in full swing, the country is riding high on Beatle mania, towering beehive hair doo's, fur boots, and getting to the moon before the end of the decade.
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