Vintage Thunderbird Club International

Is anyone else going?
I'm looking forward to this. It's not often we meet in the northeast.
Randy

Mine stayed in it's cozy and dry resting place.
I, however, drove the Buick through 3" of new slush during a blizzard.
Randy Mattson

I'm planning on attending.
Randy Mattson

Welcome, Jon, I'm kind of partial to '65 myself.
What part of the world are you from?
Randy Mattson

I took a drive to Arby's this evening, in the 2005 with the top down. While I was returning to the car, a young fellow (definitely under 25) had just exited his older Dodge Ram. He commented, "Nice car! What kind is it?" I told him, "It's a Thunderbird." Then he asked, "Who ...

Our sympathies to Anita...we met them at the Costa Mesa convention in 2002. Great guy.
Randy Mattson

I went to a local muffler shop with a photocopy of the exhaust system from the shop manual. He built it to look exactly like the copy in aluminized steel, resonators and mufflers. I forget the exact cost but it was less than $500 installed. This was on a '65 Special Landau in the mid nineties. I was...

With the back seat out, have you tried reaching in and pushing the flip lid up as the switch is engaged?
Randy Mattson

Another referral: S/M Electro Tech...www.turnswitch.com, located in Blaine, MN.
Randy

so many beans to be counted...so many beans.

Bob, I'm not completely retired. I like to think of it as easing out. I'm working only 50 - 51 hours per week this tax season.
Randy

A jigsaw puzzle app that I play with to wind down in the evening featured a 1966 Thunderbird town hardtop in the daily puzzle yesterday.
Kind of fun to see that.
Randy

I had Hankook Optima's put on in July, 2016.
So far no problems. They look fine.
Randy Mattson

and don't forget control arms and bushings. That helped my '65 quite a bit.
Good Luck!
Randy Mattson

My first thought is a tire out of balance.
How old are your control arm bushings?
When my '65 experienced the same thing I determined it to be the road near my house.
It didn't do it when I got farther away from home.
Good luck.
Randy Mattson