Saturday, September 07, 2013
Automotif XIV...
Seen while out pedaling in SoBro...
1960 Ford Thunderbird ragtop, last model year of the second generation T-birds. I believe this one is in frequent use, if not actually a daily driver. It lives on the street most of the time, at any rate.
Ah, the exotic chrome gingerbread of the most Wurlitzer-esque period in American automotive styling...
You should do another blog similar to Arms Room for posts like this.
ReplyDeleteI think of them when I'm out and about and see something interesting automotive. I sometimes think of snapping a pic to send you more material but I'm usually not able to get the phone out and into camera mode in time.
Last one was a "Smokey and The Bandit" style Trans Am in fairly well preserved shape. Two ladies in it. Driver I guessed in her 30's passenger in her 20's. T-tops out, lots of blonde hair blowing in the wind.
I had "Eastbound and down" running through my head the rest of the way home.
Re: your "Wurlitzer-esque" comment - You're just jealous neither the Subie nor the Zed Drei have a front sight above the headlight. :)
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Good on the owner for running it. I know they HAVE to be an electrical engineer if all the accessories are in working order though!
ReplyDeleteIf it were a gun it would be a Rock-O-La M1 Carbine... My grade-school buddy Steve who went off to join the mechanized infantry in '76 had a dark blue '69 LeadSled... What a ride.
ReplyDeleteTheir biggest problem was wiring... AGAIN...
ReplyDeleteIt's as if the guys who drew the lines of '55-'57 Fords and Chevs discovered wacky weed and/or LSD just before they put pen to paper for the 58's, and took four years to get the crazed monkey off their backs.
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I always thought those were gunsights for the Unter cowling MG's. I was younger then. ;)
ReplyDeleteVery Nice. Almost criminal to leave a ragtop like that on the street as you describe... and in the weather. The owner should be flogged. Having owned a few ragtops in my time, they ALL leak to some degree and the older ones more so. And the sun does no favors to clarity of the 'not clear for long' polymer back windows.
ReplyDeleteI'll stick with T-Bird/Gen I as Gen II was the beginning of turning it into a heavy cruiser boat, until Ford totally ruined it later with nondescript, square corned, downsized bodies and anemic smogdog engines...
Ricardo