Im sure its been done but from searching the inner web for almost a year to see if. you are bidding on what we know of to be thee lowest 1961 ford thunderbird ever customized on 20 wheels. After long thought ive had to put her up for sale. Get the latest car news, reviews and galleries from Autocar direct to your inbox every week. 1961 Ford Thunderbird Additional Info: Ok, financing fell through for previous customer and relisting. “Mechanical refinement of engine, transmission and steering would be hard to improve upon, the power-assisted steering setting an example to other manufacturers.” “More important than the high performance is the completely effortless manner in which it is achieved,” they said. Still, the road testers concluded that the Thunderbird was worth every penny. To provide a measure of commonsense, a Ford Anglia cost £589. Fifty-four years ago, that was a great deal of money – only slightly less than an Aston Martin DB4 (£3968) and more than twice the price of a Jaguar Mk2 3.8 (£1179). Perhaps the only immediate downside was the British purchase tax, which raised the price from £2679 14s 2d to £3797 7s 9d, albeit with a heater, radio and electrically operated front seats, windows and windscreen washers thrown in. Given its 5.2m length, that was a seriously impressive figure, equivalent to that achieved by the five-metre-long Range Rover today. Even a test best fuel economy of 15mpg was forgiven (it averaged just over 13mpg after spirited performance tests), due to the car’s two-tonne weight and the engine’s mighty cubic capacity.Įven more impressive – although perhaps less likely to excite a road tester – was the car’s 12.6-metre turning circle. Ford boss: no plans to follow GM and leave EuropeĪcceleration, meanwhile, was “exceptional”, with 0-60mph taking 9.3sec and 0-100mph 26.3sec, and even the auto ’box was noted to “change so smoothly that sometimes it was impossible to detect the shifts”. Promoted: Ford Focus ST – 7 Finest Features.Why the Ford Fiesta ST deserves to be a hot hatch hero.Promoted | The Ford Fiesta ST: seven features to love.Finding the best hot Ford Fiesta of all time.
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