66 T-Bird pics

[W Vaughan]

Anyone have pics of custom 66 T-Bird. I'm thinking about buying one and just wondering what others have done with them.

Thanks
Will Vaughan

[Fat Hack]

My neighbor has a super clean 66 Bird he's trying to sell, black on black, 390, cool car.

He started to restore it, but messed up his back and can't do that type of labor anymore...wants to sell it and maybe build something else later on, after his surgery when his son gets out of the Service.

Think he's asking $4000 or so...body and paint work done, needs interior reinstalled and some assembly...grille and front bumper is still off.

I can float you his contact info if you're interested.

[Flexicoker]

here's a '62
http://www.rodandcustommagazine.com/rodcustom/projectbuild/135_0307_budget_3_z.jpg

[blueskies]

The '66 is one of my all time favorite car designs. The lines on this car are fantastic, with a little space age thrown in for good measure in the dash pods, swing away wheel, and sequential turn signals. I loved this car at night, there are about 25 bulbs in the thing, the entire rear lense lights up.

I had a '66 Town Landau with factory 428 that I bought myself for a college graduation present. It was sage green with matching interior, black vinyl top. Drove it daily year-round for 4 years. Sold it for the $ when building a house. Still miss it, the ultimate road trip cuizer. A huge car, but you'd never know it with all the POWER baby! Someday, I'll get another, but want the 'vert now... in anything but red-

Pete

http://c-it.com/chandler/66tbc/img006.jpg http://c-it.com/chandler/66tbc/img002.jpg http://c-it.com/chandler/66tbc/img005.jpg

[The Harpoon]

Here is my '64, back when Anthony still owned the dh and I still drank

[The Harpoon]

Here is the artsy shot

[BigDdy31]

Will, those T-Birds are great cars. My Dad bought a '64 ragtop new and loved it so much that when he died it was still around to be passed on to me.

I liked HIS car so much in fact, that when I was a teenager I bought a car almost identical to the one Pete described. Mine was a '66, vintage burgundy with parchment interior, 428, and c-6. These cars are super long and heavy as lead but very cool looking. And I agree with Pete, no more red. Mine's red and that's the only thing I don't love about it. In fact it looks remarkably like the one in the pics above. But they are great cars to drive (a little rough to park some places these days due to their size) and smooth as glass on the road.

The '66 is almost a 'factory custom' with the sequential taillights and the interior accessories mentioned previously. If it's a landau, which many were in that year, I would lose the vinyl top, fender skirt it if it didn't come with them from the factory or if they've been taken off, and go with some cool paint work like scallops or even flames but with the size of the hood that would be one helluva flame job. LOL Maybe even choose a color that you could go with on the interior and exterior to give it that uniform look.

They run a big ass tire sized from the factory so you have a lot of wheel and tire combo choices, and since they were reasonalbly low from the factory anyway, you could help that along a little bit with the skirts and your wheel and tire choices if you didn't want to go to the trouble of heavier lowering work.

Hope all this rambling helps,

Big Daddy Eric

[Rocky]

Here's a 67 I tried to sell last week at my auction. I was trying to clean up my dad's property so I could list it for sale. Nobody bid on this rust-free car [390 and C-6 was disassembled and in the shop] and it even had a good Oregon title. It got lumped in and sold with all the scraP metal...very sad.