I recently inherited my grandpa’s old ‘69 4-door Bird and have had the worst time trying to find info about it. This 10 minute vid was packed with more info and history about this model than I’ve been able to find in any other so far. Thanks!
Hey bud, great vid. The headlight doors were vacuum operated, there is a vacuum pot behind each one. The 390 was standard with the 428 as an option for the 67-model year. For the 1968 model year the 390 was standard with the 429 as the option until December 31, 1967. Beginning on Jan 1, 1968, the 390 was no longer available and the 429 was the sole engine for the Thunderbird. And as an aside, the pic you show from Collectible Automobile of the 4 door is my car which was photographed for the magazine in about 1998. The pic of the interior below it is also of my car. The picture was taken at an athletic feild complex in the SW corner of the University of Florida campus. I bought that car in 1989 from the original owner and still have it parked in my garage today.
My father brought a used '68 home in 1981. I loved the interior styling and the bad-ass grille with the hide-aways. Everything from the sequential turn signals, easy exit steering wheel, to the brushed aluminum interior trim in that car was special. Unfortunately the engine pinged with the low octane gas at the time & retarding the timing was the only solution. Thank you for the tour Steve!
My mom had a 1968 Thunderbird she got in brand new. The salesman had it pulled aside in his garage when she picked it up. It was a 2 door it had the 429 thunder jet engine with ac and power windows she had a lead foot. I remember her welding the doors of the GTOs she would come up against on the road. Looking back, it's a wonder we survived as she would drive the car 120 miles per hour and sometimes on bald tires. I remember she would drive from Delaware to DC and once out on I95, and the beltway she would burry the speedometer needle for most of the trip and sometimes encounter a speed trap, it was a great car.
Yep same here only it was my older brother that buried the needle on dad's car on the QEW Toronto. He said the front end was moving up and down with the air. He guessed at over 130mph. 2 Door Burgundy on Black really nice car.
Are we related? I had an aunt who drove a ‘70 Grand Prix SJ. It was the norm for her to do 120mph with us kids in the car. My uncle drove GTOs. He bought a ‘66 new and a ‘70 new. Still has them today. My pops had a ‘70 T-Bird with the 429. Loved that car. It wouldn’t out run any of the GTOs in our area of Baltimore but it had a nice balance of luxury and performance. Ahh, to be a kid again
Thx Steve. 2:30 I grew up w a ‘69 4-Door Landau identical to the one shown. Suicide doors, Alligator-grain vinyl top. Loaded dealer demo. Dad’s door armrest looked like Captain Kirk’s control panel. The back seat was like a restaurant booth - it curved in the corners. There was a big armrest that came down as ‘no man’s land’ on car trips when my parents had enough of us kid bickering. 😅 When we sold the T-Bird for a brand new ‘77 Caprice Classic. Dad asked how I liked it. I said “I like it but the back doors are broken”. I was so used to the mega-cool suicide doors on the back of the T-Bird.😂
Those landau bars always gave me the willies - for some reason I’ve always thought of them as a detail you would find on a hearse…….👻 Is that a little Plymouth Sundance back there? Haven’t seen one of those on the road in years! My bride was driving one when we were first dating and lived in the Kansas City area. The rent on our brand new two bedroom apartment was $195 per month and if I had a few hundred bucks of disposable income after paying all my bills for the month I thought I was in tall cotton! Now $195 wouldn’t cover my electric bill most months……..😂
The Thunderbird shared it's platform with the Lincoln, not the Galaxie. Actually, Back then Tunderbird was more like a halo brand, as if you look carefully, the car will not say FORD anywhere on the exterior and only have non descript badge inside that it is a product of Ford Motor Company.
THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!!! I think the show you mentioned was supposed to be Space 1999. The show before that was UFO. IT didn't really do very well so Space 1999 was created and Moon base Alpha was home for the two actors you mentioned. I always liked both series. Thanks for the video Steve.
We had a '69 4dr on our used car lot back in the late '70's. One of the few Ford products that I would enjoy. Getting in the back seat is so comfortable if you do it right by turning facing out and sitting on the seat and then pull both legs in. Dark metalic green & white interior. Looked a million dollars. Great on the highway.
Dad had a ‘70 T-Bird in my early high school years. I’ve always thought that was a gorgeous car. I remember Dad putting an electronic ignition system on that 429 4 barrel. Certainly not the rocket that my aunt’s Grand Prix SJ was but I loved that T-Bird and the memories of helping dad wrench on it. Steve you have to be one of the most knowledgeable car people in the country today. Not that you have it all committed to memory but knowing where to go to get said information. Are the brochures and other publications you use in the videos part of your personal collection? I look forward to 6am each day to see what you have to share with your audience. Thanks for what you do.
Lost my Thunderbird in highschool. Moved to a different state. Strange, found my 1966 Thunderbird in a junkyard close by. Thunderbird is in my garage working.
My car in high school was a '67 T-Bird Landau coupe. As I remember the headlight doors were vacuum controlled. A vacuum leak would throw everything into a tizzy! It was a great car, with a back seat that wrapped around like a sofa!
Steve... As someone else also noted, that is not a 69 because all 69 Landau models had the blind quarter roof with no rear side windows. The data plate that you showed had a 9 as the first digit so the data plate was def a 69. Likely the door, which holds the data plate, got swapped out after a wreck or rust out. Please look at the VIN on the front clip of the car and note that it begins with the number 8. Also, all 68-71 had the 429 engine. 66-67 had 390 standard with 428 optional. As you know a complete different engine series. Finally, the headlamp doors were vacuum operated, not electric. Which would I prefer to buy new? The thunderbird! Although I would get the standard hardtop which came without the funeral car landau bars and without the vinyl roof.
Agreed this is a '68. The taillights are two sepatate lamps vs the full-width 1967-68 lamls and the rear marker reflectors vs the actual rectangular lamps on the '69. The dash turn signals are 1967-68 vs the two rectangular arrows on 1969-71 The three turn indicators on the dash are designed to mirror the sequential turn signals. On the very early '67s, the turn signal would start on the opposite side of the three lights from the indicated turn and light in sequence toward the indicated turn. The technology was not there to make the dash signal in either direction reliably, so it was removed early in the model run.
I SO want a 69 T-Bird 4-door with that 429! I'm a Chevy/GM guy, but totally dig that 4-door styling with the suicide doors, and that 429 is a beast! Thanks, Steve! Take care out there, brother!
I had a 69 Landau in the 90’s and I loved its power and its ride. The headlight doors were actually vacuum operated and it also had a swing away steering wheel.
So happy to see a 67-69 gen showcased like this. I have 67 I’m restoring - I’m in the midst of doing the front end and the first to go is the vacuum headlight doors. I’ve put in electric actuators from a 93 ford Probe.
I had 69 T-bird with suicide doors when I was in high school in the eighties. Rebuilt the engine in auto shop with a hotter cam and carb. The 429 was definitely underrated as an engine. Would love to have one again as a project. And Steve is not wrong, that trunk is massive. Big enough to carry an old 354 hemi engine complete 😂
That is a 1968 Thunderbird. Rear marker is a reflector. Ford was late with rear side marker lights on all their vehicles. All were reflectors only until 1969.
Man I’m surprised that gem of an engine still in that car!! I knew a guy that had 3 of them in the mid 80s! He wanted to restore! I wonder if he ever accomplished what he wanted?!
Day brothers in Auburn..then blowing a brake line in it going down rockhurst hill..by the time we hit Janine's he somehow stopped it, and gramps GMC carryall? Ended up being towed to the Texaco in West Brookfield..I stayed, rest had Ronnie Fountains Lincoln back to Waite Corner Rd...Ritchie Kennan was working, and I LOVED Alice showing up selling Avon in thier ' 69 Impala coupe..I'll be 61 in a cpl weeks, been in Ct 30 yrs, but blessed? that I remember as much as i do..I wonder how many T birds left Valley Ford in Ware..
Great video Steve, but I have to make a correction, the 67-69 Thunderbird was actually the 5th generation bird. The baby birds were first (55-57) followed by the square birds (58-60) then the bullet birds (61-63) then the flair birds (64-66) and then the fifth gen birds being 67-69. I'm an owner of a beautiful 33k original miles 65 bird so I get obsessive over these things lol.
Having been born in 1964, you're too young to remember the extreme excitement caused by the introduction of the four door Thunderbird for model year 1967! I vividly remember the night that a friend of my folks stopped by to show us his new T-Bird with suicide doors!!!
I bought a rust-free blue ‘66 T-bird convertible when I arrived in Vegas around 1975 but the sun was so brutal that I had to leave the top up. It looked just like the one in Thelma & Louise. The way the trunk opened in reverse to accept the top was interesting but I didn’t have much use for the swing away steering wheel. I only stayed in Nevada a couple months before getting homesick and flying back to Michigan. I didn’t care much for the ‘67 T-bird styling.
Turbo Regal alert. Mine was a '78, same color blue with dark blue 2 tone. Landau and Bain starred in "Mission Impossible," which had a very cool theme song that was in 5/4 time which was composed by Lalo Schifrin. These T-Birds were built at the Wixom plant on Wixom road. The T-Bird line was converted to Lincoln MkVIII's when I visited there in 1986, we drove there from Jersey in our new Lincoln Town Car. Smooth!
Great show Steve. My dad worked at the Wixom plant when they made the T-bird. He said the 4 door was an absolute failure, and Ford quickly ditched it after 2 years.
Cool cars t birds ! My uncle was a t bird guy... as a kid i remember he drove a white 58 and every 10 or 15 years he'd buy a newer one but not brand new.... his last one was a 93 or 4 Thanks for sharing !!
Over 30 years ago there was one sliced in half and hanging over a shop in the city of Amsterdam. I was arguing with a friend. He didn‘t believe me that this was a T-Bird. I Love this design😊
@SteveMagnante Have you considered having a Junkyard Crawl guided tour for fans? A tour guided by Steve,1.5 hour walk through a local junkyard. Advertise it ahead of time, maybe cap it at 30 attendees or so, $40-50 a person. I'd do it in a heartbeat.
I think that's a '68 Steve - different grille & they were equipped with the 429 as well. I had a '69 4-door. Beautiful machine. Great, smooth, highway cruiser with excellent acceleration for a ~4500lb car. The interior was a combination of white leather & vinyl, black carpet, woodgrain, brushed aluminum, and chrome. Loaded right up with electric-over-vacuum everything, as evidenced by the fist-sized bundle of vacuum hoses running from the driver's door in through the door post. Fun times. Good stuff as always - keep 'em comin'.
My aunt had a '67 four door. Gold/black. I used to wax it for her once a year. The 4 door is somewhat historic as there are pictures of Leno LaBianca's parked in his driveway with his boat still attached the morning after he was murdered by the Manson family.
Ooh, I see an 80's GM G-Body in the background 😮 love those cars. The G-Body and B-Body are the best cars of the 70's and 80's. And they're light-years better than the disposable appliance crossover garbage people drive today
Hi Steve great video on this Big (HP)Bird. Those early 429's were highly underrated in my opinion. Thats an absolutly beautiful blue colour. Steve did this example have the overhead console? 1st time ever seeing one was in a model similar to this. It had the landau top option I'm not sure if the overhead console was only available on these models. The rear glass disappearing into the C pillar is definitely cool. I hadn't never noticed it before. I had a friend up in WV and all of his jacked up long bed Fords had a 429's installed. It was like an absolute must for him. I sold and shipped many of these engines to him. Whenever I'd visit in person it was aways a 'new' one being driven and another one being built in the shop. He could smoke those big tires for miles. Steve a side note I'm not getting your notifications until later on. I've checked my settings and they are the same. I'm not sure if anyone else is having the issue or note. It's been a few times I'll have to look up your ch and see if you took the day off or just didn't get a notification. I'm heading this morning to harvest my 1st tomato crop yummy yummy. Have a blessed day everyone 🤙🏼 Namaste 🙏🏼
@@googleusergp Hi Mr GP. 👋🏼 I have a 100' high tunnel I start off my plants early and grow some things yr round. It definitely was a wise investment. I also use 'wicking tubs' so I don't water often since I travel around quite often during the growing season. You probably read I'm big into healthy eating and stay away from synthetic ingredients that big Food corporations are using to keep us sick. Thanks for commenting 🤙🏼 Namaste 🙏🏼
Oh I forgot to mention I also use hydroponics in my high tunnel. Nothing fancy just 55gl drums filled with the right amount of salts and fertilizer. Since the Marijuana market has expanded you can now easily get these ingredients from most of you growing centers. Thanks again for commenting 🙂 Namaste 🙏🏼
Your first tomato crop?! Here in lovely Wisconsin, it's 34 degrees and flurries coming down. I'm so sick of snow and cold I could puke. But, our 2 weeks of summer is wonderful, so I guess that makes up for it?!?!?! Ugh!
@@xfactorautomotive1496 Hi Mr. xfactor. 👋🏼 I'm in NC it's a little chilly this week mid 60s. My high tunnel will keep things about 10° warmer than the outside temperatures. A high tunnel is the same as a greenhouse without any climate control (heat or ac). Soon I'll pull the plastic off and put on a shade tarp to keep things comfortable and manageable. (Too hot) Tomatoes for example stop producing once the temps get to about 94ish. I grow most if not all my foods. Beef, Pork, and chicken all grass feed and grass finished. I have a small fruit and nut orchid peaches, pecans, walnuts, plums, figs, pears, persimmons, nectarines, and chestnut. Thanks for commenting 🤙🏼 Namaste 🙏🏼
If you find a forgotten Shelby rusting in that yard, I might have to take some vacation days and come to Massachusetts and have a good old look around that yard for myself!!! Yards like that don't exist in my area anymore. Everything is late model and the average life in one of these yards is weeks, sometimes only days. I swear some people even camp out in the corner of the parking lot.
The 429 and the suicide doors were really neat.
I recently inherited my grandpa’s old ‘69 4-door Bird and have had the worst time trying to find info about it. This 10 minute vid was packed with more info and history about this model than I’ve been able to find in any other so far. Thanks!
Same 🤜
Hey bud, great vid. The headlight doors were vacuum operated, there is a vacuum pot behind each one. The 390 was standard with the 428 as an option for the 67-model year. For the 1968 model year the 390 was standard with the 429 as the option until December 31, 1967. Beginning on Jan 1, 1968, the 390 was no longer available and the 429 was the sole engine for the Thunderbird. And as an aside, the pic you show from Collectible Automobile of the 4 door is my car which was photographed for the magazine in about 1998. The pic of the interior below it is also of my car. The picture was taken at an athletic feild complex in the SW corner of the University of Florida campus. I bought that car in 1989 from the original owner and still have it parked in my garage today.
Thanks Steve, I always had a place in my heart for Thunderbirds and Cougars (the cars). Good info!
I love all Thunderbirds
My father brought a used '68 home in 1981. I loved the interior styling and the bad-ass grille with the hide-aways. Everything from the sequential turn signals, easy exit steering wheel, to the brushed aluminum interior trim in that car was special. Unfortunately the engine pinged with the low octane gas at the time & retarding the timing was the only solution. Thank you for the tour Steve!
Nothing like getting the bird first thing in the morning!
We certainly get the worm.... Good morning 🌞
Sans thunder
I could handle that if it was the ONLY time in the course of MY day 😂😂😂. PEACE
Nice 😎
Martin & Barbara were husband & wife, they also starred in Mission: Impossible. And also Space:1999.
Who? 😂
@@samholdsworth420 Barbara Bain and Martin Landau
My mom had a 1968 Thunderbird she got in brand new. The salesman had it pulled aside in his garage when she picked it up. It was a 2 door it had the 429 thunder jet engine with ac and power windows she had a lead foot. I remember her welding the doors of the GTOs she would come up against on the road. Looking back, it's a wonder we survived as she would drive the car 120 miles per hour and sometimes on bald tires. I remember she would drive from Delaware to DC and once out on I95, and the beltway she would burry the speedometer needle for most of the trip and sometimes encounter a speed trap, it was a great car.
Yep same here only it was my older brother that buried the needle on dad's car on the QEW Toronto. He said the front end was moving up and down with the air. He guessed at over 130mph. 2 Door Burgundy on Black really nice car.
Are we related? I had an aunt who drove a ‘70 Grand Prix SJ. It was the norm for her to do 120mph with us kids in the car. My uncle drove GTOs. He bought a ‘66 new and a ‘70 new. Still has them today.
My pops had a ‘70 T-Bird with the 429. Loved that car. It wouldn’t out run any of the GTOs in our area of Baltimore but it had a nice balance of luxury and performance. Ahh, to be a kid again
Good Morning Gents !🇺🇸
My father had a 1968 Thunderbird 428 thunderjet engine made it home from work in the Blizzard of 78 plowed right through the snow 😊
I meant 429 😅
Uncle owned a triple Black 2 door 429 - Talk about intimidation - Interior still impresses my mind
BROTHER, YOU ARE THE REMINDER AND VOICE OF AUTOMOBILE HISTORY, thanks man
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Martin Landau and Barbara Bain (a married couple) also starred in "Mission Impossible".
One of my favorite generations of Thunderbirds. Great shout-out to Collectible Automobile magazine. A great resource for any auto enthusiast.
Thx Steve. 2:30 I grew up w a ‘69 4-Door Landau identical to the one shown. Suicide doors, Alligator-grain vinyl top. Loaded dealer demo. Dad’s door armrest looked like Captain Kirk’s control panel. The back seat was like a restaurant booth - it curved in the corners. There was a big armrest that came down as ‘no man’s land’ on car trips when my parents had enough of us kid bickering. 😅 When we sold the T-Bird for a brand new ‘77 Caprice Classic. Dad asked how I liked it. I said “I like it but the back doors are broken”. I was so used to the mega-cool suicide doors on the back of the T-Bird.😂
“Coil springs softer ride” while Steve leans on the rear quarter as the car completely sits on the ground!!! Too funny
Couldn’t keep my eyes off that late 70’s regal in the back
Those landau bars always gave me the willies - for some reason I’ve always thought of them as a detail you would find on a hearse…….👻
Is that a little Plymouth Sundance back there? Haven’t seen one of those on the road in years! My bride was driving one when we were first dating and lived in the Kansas City area. The rent on our brand new two bedroom apartment was $195 per month and if I had a few hundred bucks of disposable income after paying all my bills for the month I thought I was in tall cotton!
Now $195 wouldn’t cover my electric bill most months……..😂
My neighbor had a 67 4-door Thunderbird and I had a 67 two-door Thunderbird back in the day!
Speedy recovery Steve..We love YOU
The Thunderbird shared it's platform with the Lincoln, not the Galaxie. Actually, Back then Tunderbird was more like a halo brand, as if you look carefully, the car will not say FORD anywhere on the exterior and only have non descript badge inside that it is a product of Ford Motor Company.
A friend in highschool drove a 65 or 66 convertible tbird we always said it was the last real Thunder Bird after that they were just baby Lincoln's!
THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!!! I think the show you mentioned was supposed to be Space 1999. The show before that was UFO. IT didn't really do very well so Space 1999 was created and Moon base Alpha was home for the two actors you mentioned. I always liked both series. Thanks for the video Steve.
That yard could sell tickets for people to just walk thru and look at all that cool old stuff.
We had a '69 4dr on our used car lot back in the late '70's. One of the few Ford products that I would enjoy. Getting in the back seat is so comfortable if you do it right by turning facing out and sitting on the seat and then pull both legs in. Dark metalic green & white interior. Looked a million dollars. Great on the highway.
Dad had a ‘70 T-Bird in my early high school years. I’ve always thought that was a gorgeous car. I remember Dad putting an electronic ignition system on that 429 4 barrel. Certainly not the rocket that my aunt’s Grand Prix SJ was but I loved that T-Bird and the memories of helping dad wrench on it.
Steve you have to be one of the most knowledgeable car people in the country today. Not that you have it all committed to memory but knowing where to go to get said information. Are the brochures and other publications you use in the videos part of your personal collection? I look forward to 6am each day to see what you have to share with your audience. Thanks for what you do.
I had a 70 tbird in 83 or 84, was my favorite car I ever owned. Detonated a cylinder :(
Lost my Thunderbird in highschool. Moved to a different state. Strange, found my 1966 Thunderbird in a junkyard close by. Thunderbird is in my garage working.
Those two door cars look pretty good with a blacked out grille, some mag wheels and wider tires.
"Bloated" sums it up well. Another double white line tire. Can't help but look at that Regal.
My car in high school was a '67 T-Bird Landau coupe. As I remember the headlight doors were vacuum controlled. A vacuum leak would throw everything into a tizzy! It was a great car, with a back seat that wrapped around like a sofa!
Remember the coffee can vacuum reservoirs?
@@jeffrobodine8579 can of beans
I dig it 😎😜
@@jeffrobodine8579 Oh yes I remember them well! If they developed 1 rusty pin-hole everything stopped working correctly!
Steve... As someone else also noted, that is not a 69 because all 69 Landau models had the blind quarter roof with no rear side windows. The data plate that you showed had a 9 as the first digit so the data plate was def a 69. Likely the door, which holds the data plate, got swapped out after a wreck or rust out. Please look at the VIN on the front clip of the car and note that it begins with the number 8. Also, all 68-71 had the 429 engine. 66-67 had 390 standard with 428 optional. As you know a complete different engine series. Finally, the headlamp doors were vacuum operated, not electric. Which would I prefer to buy new? The thunderbird! Although I would get the standard hardtop which came without the funeral car landau bars and without the vinyl roof.
Agreed this is a '68. The taillights are two sepatate lamps vs the full-width 1967-68 lamls and the rear marker reflectors vs the actual rectangular lamps on the '69.
The dash turn signals are 1967-68 vs the two rectangular arrows on 1969-71 The three turn indicators on the dash are designed to mirror the sequential turn signals.
On the very early '67s, the turn signal would start on the opposite side of the three lights from the indicated turn and light in sequence toward the indicated turn. The technology was not there to make the dash signal in either direction reliably, so it was removed early in the model run.
Morning Steve .....reminds me of my youth. Riding in a big bird heading dowm the 89 to cape cod every summer in the 70s. Good times.
I had a friend who had a 69 four-door one, and it was low mileage,
I see a black 50's or early 60's Chrysler product behind the Thunderbird.
I SO want a 69 T-Bird 4-door with that 429! I'm a Chevy/GM guy, but totally dig that 4-door styling with the suicide doors, and that 429 is a beast! Thanks, Steve! Take care out there, brother!
My folks had a '68 429 4-door. Dad always said it was the best driving car he ever owned.
These are considered 5th-gen! I have a 3rd-gen '62 and I love it. Space age styling!
Cool cars by many measures, but I actually like the look better when the clamshells are open and the headlights are exposed.
I love the Thunderbird so much, I have a 1978 for a daily driver.
Loved the 5th gen. Even the four doors were cool with the suicide doors.
5th generation
@@stevenz8397 corrected. Thanks
good morning Steve from Tennessee! fantastic find on the classic t bird also like when you show magazines and model kits of auto's your telling about!
A Thunderbird or a Cobra Jet, that's a tough one. This is the good stuff. Keep on crawling😊
My Uncle had a 68 TBird with the 429 Thunderjet , Ice blue with the black top , Cragar mags
Cup of coffee and watching Steve’s latest video, what’s not to like?
I had a 69 Landau in the 90’s and I loved its power and its ride. The headlight doors were actually vacuum operated and it also had a swing away steering wheel.
So happy to see a 67-69 gen showcased like this. I have 67 I’m restoring - I’m in the midst of doing the front end and the first to go is the vacuum headlight doors. I’ve put in electric actuators from a 93 ford Probe.
I had 69 T-bird with suicide doors when I was in high school in the eighties. Rebuilt the engine in auto shop with a hotter cam and carb. The 429 was definitely underrated as an engine. Would love to have one again as a project. And Steve is not wrong, that trunk is massive. Big enough to carry an old 354 hemi engine complete 😂
That is a 1968 Thunderbird. Rear marker is a reflector. Ford was late with rear side marker lights on all their vehicles. All were reflectors only until 1969.
67-70 Eldorado had a similar power rear quarter window that moved forward and back rather than up and down
I had that Imperial that on the front of the magazine and also a 1968 model Thunderbird in light green. I never bought another.
Thank you for making this
And knowing there’s parts in Mass!
Man, that wreckers is paradise. Awesome content Steve, thoroughly enjoy your vast knowledge.
I had a 67 t-bird. It was a great car. I miss it.
Man I’m surprised that gem of an engine still in that car!! I knew a guy that had 3 of them in the mid 80s! He wanted to restore! I wonder if he ever accomplished what he wanted?!
Day brothers in Auburn..then blowing a brake line in it going down rockhurst hill..by the time we hit Janine's he somehow stopped it, and gramps GMC carryall? Ended up being towed to the Texaco in West Brookfield..I stayed, rest had Ronnie Fountains Lincoln back to Waite Corner Rd...Ritchie Kennan was working, and I LOVED Alice showing up selling Avon in thier ' 69 Impala coupe..I'll be 61 in a cpl weeks, been in Ct 30 yrs, but blessed? that I remember as much as i do..I wonder how many T birds left Valley Ford in Ware..
What a gold mine we get to see every morning.
Steve nice “Space 1999” reference
The one car I'd like to have again is the '68 T-Bird 4 door Landau.
That ‘58 Chrysler Windsor is worth a look too.
Thanks Steve
Just a side note Steve. Martin Landau and Barbara Bain starred in the mid 70's sci fi series Space 1999, not UFO. 😁
Great video Steve, but I have to make a correction, the 67-69 Thunderbird was actually the 5th generation bird. The baby birds were first (55-57) followed by the square birds (58-60) then the bullet birds (61-63) then the flair birds (64-66) and then the fifth gen birds being 67-69. I'm an owner of a beautiful 33k original miles 65 bird so I get obsessive over these things lol.
THANKS Steve I ask a while back to do this thunderchicken great job
I missed your show yesterday Monday and I got you today Good stuff Steve keep it going
I understood this to be 5th gen,. 1st gen 55-57. 2nd gen 58-60. 3rd gen 61-63. 4th gen 64-66. Love the channel Steve.
Having been born in 1964, you're too young to remember the extreme excitement caused by the introduction of the four door Thunderbird for model year 1967! I vividly remember the night that a friend of my folks stopped by to show us his new T-Bird with suicide doors!!!
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Katie sighting ❤
I really enjoy your videos! I'd love to hear your take on that Shadow, Regal and K Car in the background.
Hello JRobert111111, those cars are COMING UP! Thanks for watching and writing. -Steve Magnante
@@SteveMagnante That's awesome, thank you!
I bought a rust-free blue ‘66 T-bird convertible when I arrived in Vegas around 1975 but the sun was so brutal that I had to leave the top up. It looked just like the one in Thelma & Louise. The way the trunk opened in reverse to accept the top was interesting but I didn’t have much use for the swing away steering wheel. I only stayed in Nevada a couple months before getting homesick and flying back to Michigan. I didn’t care much for the ‘67 T-bird styling.
Thank you Steve hope you get better soon
Great as always Steve! 👍👍💯🇺🇸
My best friend in high school had the 4 door model.
The headlight doors are vacuum close , spring open . Its rare the heads are still on that engine , small chambers screw in studs and guide plates .
That's a beautiful Oldsmobile cutlas Supreme in the background.
Cool car! I’m surprised nobody snagged the engine & transmission out of it.
Turbo Regal alert. Mine was a '78, same color blue with dark blue 2 tone. Landau and Bain starred in "Mission Impossible," which had a very cool theme song that was in 5/4 time which was composed by Lalo Schifrin. These T-Birds were built at the Wixom plant on Wixom road. The T-Bird line was converted to Lincoln MkVIII's when I visited there in 1986, we drove there from Jersey in our new Lincoln Town Car. Smooth!
I preferred the 2 door with the wrap around rear seat even though the 4 door looked cooler.
bird is the word. i like the 4door version but nice car back then.
Great show Steve. My dad worked at the Wixom plant when they made the T-bird. He said the 4 door was an absolute failure, and Ford quickly ditched it after 2 years.
Ford made 4 door Thunderbirds in 67, 68, 69, 70 and 71.
@Johnny Pervo How many words per minute can Steve give us with great vehicle knowledge.
My 1972 Torino coupe also had rear quarter glass that went rearward into the pillar.
Loved your comment. Looks. Like. A giant. Razor. Coming. At. You. Haha. Thanks
Hard to believe that grill is still intact.😎
Cool cars t birds ! My uncle was a t bird guy... as a kid i remember he drove a white 58 and every 10 or 15 years he'd buy a newer one but not brand new.... his last one was a 93 or 4
Thanks for sharing !!
I'll take one in black with no vinyl roof, please. Such a sinister looking car!
Over 30 years ago there was one sliced in half and hanging over a shop in the city of Amsterdam. I was arguing with a friend. He didn‘t believe me that this was a T-Bird. I Love this design😊
@SteveMagnante Have you considered having a Junkyard Crawl guided tour for fans? A tour guided by Steve,1.5 hour walk through a local junkyard. Advertise it ahead of time, maybe cap it at 30 attendees or so, $40-50 a person. I'd do it in a heartbeat.
3:26. The TV show with Martin Landau was “Space: 1999”. But it’s all good. 😊
I think that's a '68 Steve - different grille & they were equipped with the 429 as well. I had a '69 4-door. Beautiful machine. Great, smooth, highway cruiser with excellent acceleration for a ~4500lb car. The interior was a combination of white leather & vinyl, black carpet, woodgrain, brushed aluminum, and chrome.
Loaded right up with electric-over-vacuum everything, as evidenced by the fist-sized bundle of vacuum hoses running from the driver's door in through the door post. Fun times.
Good stuff as always - keep 'em comin'.
Another excellent class field trip with the professor. Sure would like to see a segment on the red Olds(?) convertible with the continental kit.
I'd LOVE a 4dr. 4th gen. T-Bird! But my WANT is an MN12!
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My aunt had a '67 four door. Gold/black. I used to wax it for her once a year.
The 4 door is somewhat historic as there are pictures of Leno LaBianca's parked in his driveway with his boat still attached the morning after he was murdered by the Manson family.
Ooh, I see an 80's GM G-Body in the background 😮 love those cars. The G-Body and B-Body are the best cars of the 70's and 80's. And they're light-years better than the disposable appliance crossover garbage people drive today
Thunder chicken. 429 thunderjet. Burnouts for days til we put it in a f150
Hi Steve great video on this Big (HP)Bird. Those early 429's were highly underrated in my opinion. Thats an absolutly beautiful blue colour. Steve did this example have the overhead console? 1st time ever seeing one was in a model similar to this. It had the landau top option I'm not sure if the overhead console was only available on these models. The rear glass disappearing into the C pillar is definitely cool. I hadn't never noticed it before. I had a friend up in WV and all of his jacked up long bed Fords had a 429's installed. It was like an absolute must for him. I sold and shipped many of these engines to him. Whenever I'd visit in person it was aways a 'new' one being driven and another one being built in the shop. He could smoke those big tires for miles. Steve a side note I'm not getting your notifications until later on. I've checked my settings and they are the same. I'm not sure if anyone else is having the issue or note. It's been a few times I'll have to look up your ch and see if you took the day off or just didn't get a notification. I'm heading this morning to harvest my 1st tomato crop yummy yummy. Have a blessed day everyone 🤙🏼 Namaste 🙏🏼
Garden grown veggies are the best.
@@googleusergp Hi Mr GP. 👋🏼 I have a 100' high tunnel I start off my plants early and grow some things yr round. It definitely was a wise investment. I also use 'wicking tubs' so I don't water often since I travel around quite often during the growing season. You probably read I'm big into healthy eating and stay away from synthetic ingredients that big Food corporations are using to keep us sick. Thanks for commenting 🤙🏼 Namaste 🙏🏼
Oh I forgot to mention I also use hydroponics in my high tunnel. Nothing fancy just 55gl drums filled with the right amount of salts and fertilizer. Since the Marijuana market has expanded you can now easily get these ingredients from most of you growing centers. Thanks again for commenting 🙂 Namaste 🙏🏼
Your first tomato crop?!
Here in lovely Wisconsin, it's 34 degrees and flurries coming down. I'm so sick of snow and cold I could puke.
But, our 2 weeks of summer is wonderful, so I guess that makes up for it?!?!?! Ugh!
@@xfactorautomotive1496 Hi Mr. xfactor. 👋🏼 I'm in NC it's a little chilly this week mid 60s. My high tunnel will keep things about 10° warmer than the outside temperatures. A high tunnel is the same as a greenhouse without any climate control (heat or ac). Soon I'll pull the plastic off and put on a shade tarp to keep things comfortable and manageable. (Too hot) Tomatoes for example stop producing once the temps get to about 94ish. I grow most if not all my foods. Beef, Pork, and chicken all grass feed and grass finished. I have a small fruit and nut orchid peaches, pecans, walnuts, plums, figs, pears, persimmons, nectarines, and chestnut. Thanks for commenting 🤙🏼 Namaste 🙏🏼
If you find a forgotten Shelby rusting in that yard, I might have to take some vacation days and come to Massachusetts and have a good old look around that yard for myself!!! Yards like that don't exist in my area anymore. Everything is late model and the average life in one of these yards is weeks, sometimes only days. I swear some people even camp out in the corner of the parking lot.
Wouldn't mind a video on the fin car in the background at 8:30. What car is that anyway? Looks like it starts with a W.
I like the painted top style, they’re very sleek looking cars.
In 99, I saw a 4 door one of these in Rochester MN.
Great video, yes those cars rere huge back then looking forward to the Shelby story,Thumbs up