Battery cables and starter warm! Battery on tender and new so I know it's good. Replaced rusty solenoid, verified the ground and voltage, same issue. Yesterday I tried to crank it to TDC, big click from the starter, no crank. I have recently changed the oil, added Marvel Mystery to the cylinders, and dribbled Lucas over the rockers. I'm to the point where the front of the engine and intake area are ready for prime paint and putting it back together (new carb, water pump, nicely painted parts, etc.), and I was going to do that this weekend. The engine and every part I've removed is original and I've been excited to play with it, until yesterday! I have not tried to crank it since I first bought it. Car has 60,000 original verified miles, and is in really great shape for a PA car. Since Nov I have been cleaning the engine up as it has rust from a rodent peeing on it, and sitting in a somewhat damp basement since 1977. All-new Thunderbirds would arrive for 1967, but a convertible wouldn’t be among them.Background: Bought car in July 18, verified engine cranked (did not start), it sat for 4 months while the seller got a title, then we flat bedded it to my place, no issues. But sales retreated, too, by almost eight percent. Our restored featured car is powered by a 390 dressed up with a chromed air cleaner and valve covers.Įven with these changes, base prices declined a bit from 1965-by $74 in the case of the convertible, to $4879. The standard powertrain remained Ford’s trusty 390-cube V-8 and the Cruise-O-Matic three-speed automatic transmission, but thanks to a half-point compression boost, the base mill gained 15 horsepower to 315 bhp. A full-width taillight ensemble (with a central back-up lamp) replaced a twin-lamp design, but turn signals still blinked sequentially from the middle out, an attention-grabbing gimmick first seen in 1965.ġ0 Most-Expensive American Coupes of 1976 1966 Ford ThunderbirdĪ 428-cid V-8 good for 345 bhp joined the options list, providing T-Bird buyers with their first choice of engines since ’63. The blunt, slightly raised faux hood scoop of prior years became a subtler bulge with a vee’d front.īodysides were cleaned up with the deletion of the simulated scoops seen on the front fenders of the ’65s. A big Thunder–bird emblem spread its wings across the center of the grille. In its place were a larger eggcrate grille above a simpler blade-style bumper and body-color val- ance panel. David Ash, did away with the bumper/grille look of 1964-65. The frontal facelift, carried out under the direction of L. Nineteen sixty-six was the final year for the fourth-generation Thunderbird, so changes were few. Sports Roadsters also came with genuine wire wheels a set was ordered for this car to complete the look.įeline Madness! A Gallery of Mercury Cougar Ads 1966 Ford Thunderbird Just a handful are thought to have been ordered for the roughly 21,000 Thunderbird ragtops made from 1964 to ’66. Waning sales doomed the Sports Roadster before the fourth-generation ’Bird made its debut in 1964, but a restyled tonneau popped up as a $269 item on the accessory list. The concept first appeared on the Thunderbird Sports Roadster, which had been a full-fledged model in 1962 and ’63. Sloping headrest fairings trailed back from the front seats over the removable tonneau, which, when in place, covered the curved, loungelike back seat. With a nod to the T-Bird’s roots as a two-seater, the car was equipped with a very rare accessory fiberglass tonneau. More classic Thunderbird fun 1966 Ford Thunderbird Ford made 5049 Thunderbird convertibles for 1966, but precious few were like this. The car’s current owner, John Petras, of Lincolnshire, Illinois, purchased it from a Ford dealership in Columbia, South Carolina, where the dealer had bought the ’Bird new for his wife. More Collectible Automobile Photo Features 1966 Ford Thunderbird Perhaps it’s no surprise, then, that the 1966 T-Bird convertible featured on these pages was intended to please a lady. In the decade or so since its 1955 introduction, the Ford Thunderbird came to attract a solid following from female motorists. Note: The following story was excerpted from the December 2005 issue of Collectible Automobile magazine.
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