Vintage Thunderbird Club International

BE SURE to get the right gasket for this carb. The Autolite 4bbl in this car uses a unique and increasingly hard to find gasket. I can't remember the details off the top of my head, but if you call Pony Carbs (I got my rebuilt carb, etc, from them) I know they have the answers - and perhaps the gask...

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Part Number B482BK Heavy Duty Sway Bar from Thunderbird HQ.

Can't give you a model, but I added a heavy duty front sway bar to my '62 SR and it made a huge difference in how it drives. My front upper shock bushings were also shot at the time, and replacing those and the sway bar helped a lot. Also did an "old school" front end alignment, since no o...

I was thinking the same as both of these folks. The car sounds like it was dredged out of a lake at some point, or perhaps the victim of a flood, and I would also save the beautifying until after the electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, etc, etc, was completely right. Since it's an M Roadster, whateve...

In my own opinion, there is nobody better than Pony Carburetor. They are not the cheapest out there, but I do not know how you could get a better carb or better service. I got a rebuilt Autolite for my 62 SR from them and have never had a lick of trouble with it.

Could someone please post a source for this kit. I think I'm going to want to do this.

Thanks.

Well, no...kind of a young Moms Mabley, but the comment was funny...

I have had an interesting and fun collection of cars over the years, Porsche, Corvettes, a 57 Buick Convertible but my red Sports Roadster is far and away the most head-turning thing I have ever owned. I get tourists here in Philadelphia who run up to have their pictures taken next to it - I can't e...

I have my 62 SR running nicely these days and along came some absolutely perfect weather, so I put the top down and headed to the Jersey shore. Stopped to look (briefly) at a 55 for sale at a gas station (23K, a little rough). When I got to the shoreline road, what is coming back the other way but a...

Seemed pretty straightforward to me.

Two things occur to me on this; one, that if it's okay to change to a body color that is correct for the year, it ought to be okay for the interior, but second, I was surprised to see the rule on body color and thought that the data plate should match the car. Then I was thinking that if I did go nu...

That's good news. Thanks for the info.

Thanks!

What confused me was seeing that you could change the paint to any correct color for the year, but no similar mention on the interior color, at least not that I found.

Thunderbird Headquarters.

No takers on this question, I guess.

Just wanted to know if it would be worth the expense to go back to the correct interior color. I would like to bring the car to showable condition, since I think it's close now, and don't know how much this matters.