I've seen this car many times when Jim owned it. The car is spectacular. Perfect in ever way and optioned out. Air, M-code 63's are the holy grail Thunderbirds and this is the best on the planet.
Absolutely stunning! My next bird is going to be a 63 Sports Roadster or a convertible dressed up like one. I want the Acapulco Blue with a lighter blue two tone interior. I own a 57 E Code Torch Red bird but it is too small for me.
Ahh, yes...originally conceived to be installed on the Continental Mark II until cost dictated it to be impractical. So, engineers moved it to the Fairlane in a hardtop-'vert variant, then to the Lincolns and T-Birds in soft-top variant. My grandmother once had a '62 model, a 'vert. There was a story about that car that stuck in my head; my grandmother told it to me once, and my mother has verified it. She, my mother, and my uncle were driving around one day, my uncle driving, my mother in the front, and my grandmother in the back...which she hated, because she always complained that she was stuck there and could not get out without help. Suddenly smoke began pouring up through the hood (not steam, *smoke* ); my uncle pulled over, opened the hood, and discovered an engine fire from a leaking fuel line. No sooner had he seen that and looked over to warn my grandmother to get out, than he saw she was already out and a very long distance away from the car. This woman, who claimed she felt trapped in the back and needed help getting out, had teleported herself to a safe distance! 😆 They got the fire extinguished and the fuel line fixed...but they never let her forget that day, especially if she ever complained about the back seat.
I've seen this car many times when Jim owned it. The car is spectacular. Perfect in ever way and optioned out. Air, M-code 63's are the holy grail Thunderbirds and this is the best on the planet.
Just stunning!
Absolutely stunning! My next bird is going to be a 63 Sports Roadster or a convertible dressed up like one. I want the Acapulco Blue with a lighter blue two tone interior. I own a 57 E Code Torch Red bird but it is too small for me.
Damn fine THUNDERBIRD
Whoa!
SO FINE
Gorgeous car
Magnificent. You can have it work with a back seat?
Tanneau cover on it - all four seaters. Cover goes over the back seat makes it a two seater.
This is an amazing car. Excellent restoration indeed. What if I want to buy it, how much is going to cost me. I live in Cyprus Mediterranean.
Ahh, yes...originally conceived to be installed on the Continental Mark II until cost dictated it to be impractical. So, engineers moved it to the Fairlane in a hardtop-'vert variant, then to the Lincolns and T-Birds in soft-top variant.
My grandmother once had a '62 model, a 'vert. There was a story about that car that stuck in my head; my grandmother told it to me once, and my mother has verified it. She, my mother, and my uncle were driving around one day, my uncle driving, my mother in the front, and my grandmother in the back...which she hated, because she always complained that she was stuck there and could not get out without help. Suddenly smoke began pouring up through the hood (not steam, *smoke* ); my uncle pulled over, opened the hood, and discovered an engine fire from a leaking fuel line. No sooner had he seen that and looked over to warn my grandmother to get out, than he saw she was already out and a very long distance away from the car. This woman, who claimed she felt trapped in the back and needed help getting out, had teleported herself to a safe distance! 😆 They got the fire extinguished and the fuel line fixed...but they never let her forget that day, especially if she ever complained about the back seat.
Mine is almost as clean as that, it’s a ‘63 hardtop in the same color except it’s literally all-original and in ridiculously clean condition.