![]() If you study these photos closely, you can see all kinds of details. That FX 0000 comes dangerously close to looking like a dreadful 1962 Plymouth. The 1960 Starliner is a stand-alone model, and not a part of the Galaxie line same with the Falcon Sprint and Futura they are separate models, not upgrades of one another. With everybody spying on each other back then, it isn’t hard to see where Chrysler got the headlights for their Thunderbird-inspired Turbine Car.Īlong with the stray 1958 Pontiac there’s a 1960 Ford Taunus. The top photo should have been produced instead of the final decision! What a pretty car. If you’ve never experienced the pleasure of the bucket seats that came in ’64 Galaxie XLs or ’64-’66 Thunderbirds, you haven’t experienced the most perfect bucket seat design ever created! Nothing before or since has ever come close to the sheer fun and comfort of these incredible cars. In the end, the production 1964 Thunderbird had fresh styling, but used the existing chassis. ![]() They may also have considered taking the cost savings approach due to other priorities such as the upcoming Mustang and all-new from the ground up ’65 full sized Fords and Mercurys-huge and crucial programs.īy this time the Thunderbird was well into a three-year design cycle program: ’55 through ’57 ’58 through ’60, and ’61 through ‘63.īecause the date of the photo of the white model (which looks like a production ‘61 with a restyled front clip) is close to the preceding clay, Ford must have been still considering facelifting the existing car. I suspect that they were looking at this as perhaps a cost savings at the same time they were developing the other models, which eventually did become the ’64 Thunderbird. By this time the next Thunderbird’s development had to be well down the road, as well as the refreshed ’63s with their different fender and door stampings. Maybe there was a fifth option-a facelifted ’. A conventional drive new car that shared more interchangeability with the Continental.A new exterior design on the carryover ’58–’63 platform. ![]() An all-new car with conventional drive, though slightly smaller than a ‘60.Alan Tast, in his excellent book, Thunderbird 1955–66, states that Ford considered four options: ![]()
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