It looked much lighter and faster than the previous car.
The chrome that ran across the top edge of the side also acted as the door handle, one of earliest examples of such bespoke hardware.
The “Projectile Bird” as it came to be called, had a sharply pointed profile with smooth, uninterrupted lines. Sales figures proved them right, but it was such a major departure, and so soon after the original mission.įor 1961, it was already time for a third generation Thunderbird, and Ford finally struck a balance between sporty and practical. While the Vette would undergo multiple redesigns as a two seater (with increasing abilities), Ford made a puzzling move of making the 1958 T-Bird a large, boxy four seater. When Ford introduced the first Thunderbird in 1955, the car was an obvious response to the Chevrolet Corvette: A sporty looking two-place convertible, not a performance monster but a boulevard cruiser.
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