Vintage Thunderbird Club International

I have been around t-birds all my life. My mom bought a 66 conv brand new in Aug 1966. I came along 11 years later and the car had been retired by that point but still in my parents driveway. Another 10 years would go by before my dad decided to get it running again. That is when I became a "bi...

We have all heard the joke that Ford stands for Fix or Repair Daily.
Does anyone have any good ones for thunderbird or T-Bird.
I can think of one that fits my brother vic rattlehead really well
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Hi Mike
There is a very good book that the VTCI has put together that is called Original Factory Specifications. You can purchase it from the VTCI country store. Each generation of birds has a different volume. 1955-1957 is in volume 2.

Hey all you Twins fans, tell your boys to go easy on the White Sox next year since we beat Detroit 2 out of 3 so that you guys could sneek in. Now go on and beat dem Yankees (after you get some sleep).

The phrase "Flying Too Low" just made me think of a cool license plate LOW FLYN or FLYN LOW.

thanks randy
i will have to look into that book.

give us a little more info please. did it do this before you did the rebuild or just after. Were all the parts of the rotating assembly balanced (rods, pistons, crank) also i remember that is a difference in flywheels on a 390 and a 428. I hope for your sake that all this checks out ok because these...

Has anyone out there researched the owner history of their cars and found any good help in doing this. I have been thinking about doing this for my 66 and all I know so far from the previous owner is that my car never left Arizona until he brought it to Chicago. Someone told me a long time ago that ...

hi texastomeh If you go to any major auto parts store and tell them to pull up the heat range specs on the spark plugs they sell they should be able to do that . Just tell them what you are trying to do and I went one heat range down.I would have to pull a plug out to read the number on the ones tha...

Hey mikeyfrog Yea you can find other young bird owners out there but you will have to keep your eyes open. I am 32 years old, own a 66 Town Hardtop and have been into tbirds since I was 11 years old. I am sure you feel like a rarity but I know of others that were hooked that early. My best advice is...

You will also have to change your spark plugs or else it will "ping" on medium to full throttle. I had this problem with my 66 428 after a complete engine rebuild including hardened seats. I believe I had to put "cooler" plugs in it if I remember right.The original style plugs we...

Randy I'm right there with you on the 59 caddy but I dream of red exterior and white interior. There is something about those wings and bullit tail lites that I love and the fact that I still havent seen a red one in person but I've seen 4 or 5 other colors in person. Maybe some day I will see and o...

hi steve my bird is a 66 town hardtop that spent its entire life in arizona until 2000 when the man that I bought it from bought it and restored it out there and then shipped it to Chicago. then 2 years later he got divorced and had to sell. I had already seen the car several times before and when h...

I have a 66 Town Hardtop with a DSO code of 75. I have read Alan Tast's book Thunderbird 1955-1966 and not found that code in there. The car was originally sold to Read-Mullan Motors in phoenix Arizona. Does anyone know more about this DSO.