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Vintage Ads: 1955 – 1957 Thunderbird – The “Light-of-Hand” Performer
(Update: we’re going to dedicate each day of the week to one decade of the T-Bird’s existence. So let’s finish out the gen1 with a couple of vintage ads. The 1958 T-Bird will be covered tomorrow...
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Curbside Classic: 1961 Ford Thunderbird Convertible – The American Dream-mobile
(parts of this text are the same as a previous CC on a ’63 hardtop Landau) What exactly is the American Dream? Was it easier to answer that question fifty years ago? If you were seven years...
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CC Outtake: The Anti-Thunderbird
Feeling a bit of T-Bird fatigue? Take one of these for an antidote. It’s the most un-T-Bird shot I could think of my recent finds. It has a geodesic dome, a roof-top water tank, solar panels and...
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Curbside Classic: 1977 Ford Thunderbird – Mark Jr, or It’s All In The Suspension
Although we like to think of ourselves as complex and multi-dimensional creatures, ultimately we all have one song to sing, one story to tell, one great love of our lives, or in the case of Lee...
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CC Outtake: The Personal Luxury Coupe Shoot-Out
CC reader Joe sent me this fab shot of his ’63 Riviera just as it was being photographed by the driver of the Thunderbird. Talk about a shoot-out!
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Cohort Driveway Outtakes: An AMC Lover Lives Here
Somebody loves them some compact AMC-mobiles. Runningonfumes found this driveway full of Hornet-based cars, and quite a variety at that. A rare Concord-based AMX, what appears to be a very rare Spirit...
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Breweryside Outtakes: Paying Respects To The Goddess of Beer
Oregon is famous for its microbrews, but none has bubbled to success so quickly as Eugene’s Ninkasi Brewery. Starting in 2006 with its trademark Total Domination IPA, Ninkasi started on a street...
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Thunderbird Week International: Auto Union 1000 SP – The Donnervogel
images: Wikipedia The original 1955 Thunderbird was not only handsome, but made quite an impression on Europeans. Although its influence can be seen to various degrees in some other cars, the Auto...
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Thunderbird Week Finale: Which One Will Grace Your Driveway At 6AM?
“6 AM Thunderbird Time” image source: plan59.com It’s been a very full week, in more ways than one. We’ve covered every generation of Thunderbird, thanks to all of our superb Contributors. The...
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Eugene Streetscene Outtakes: Suddenly It’s 1996
Just another typical street scene in Eugene. Can you ID them all? Are they all from 1996 or earlier? Oops; looks like there’s one interloper from the future in there. Yes, that’s my bike in front;...
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CC Outtake: Greetings From Paris and the The French Riviera
Son Ed and his GF are roughing it in Paris for a week. He sent me this shot, which is evocative in more ways than one. It reminds me of the wonderful week we had there in 2010. And of how many...
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Seasonal Outtake: Pumpkin Hauler
This old International truck from the forties isn’t a static display truck at the entrance to this farm; it actually hauled the pumpkins from the field, and I’ve seen (and shot) it in several...
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Curbside Classic: 1964 BMW 1800 Neue Klasse – The Car That Saved And Made BMW
(first posted 1/3/12) Risky business. That defines the car business, and never more succinctly so than in the case of this car. Rarely has a desperate last-minute gamble paid of so handsomely as...
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Curbside Classic: 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner – Reaching For The Sky...
The years 1956-1958 were the most ambitious ever for the post-war Ford Motor Company, with a bold and expensive assault on GM. By expanding into five separate divisions (Ford, Edsel, Mercury, Lincoln...
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CC Outtake: Down On Broadway
The other day I showed you some outtakes from this neighborhood taken in 2011. The streetscape is always changing, but lest you think it’s all new silver CUVs now, here’s a couple of shots taken just...
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Graveside Classic: 1970 Cadillac Superior Funeral Coach – Got Corpse?
We can’t have Hearse Week without an old Cadillac. But where have all the old hearses gone? There was a time when these body haulers were a common alternative to the VW bus (conveniently displayed in...
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CC Outtake: 1966 Cadillac Four Door Convertible – Burnt Woodstock Taxi
Eugene, the place where cars and their owners never really get old. It’s due to our miracle healing rains, a proven anti-oxidant equally effective on steel as well as brain cells. The results are...
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Cohort Sighting: Two Ravishing Red Classics
Now here’s a delicious twosome: one of 500 Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione and a Mack FT pumper. If Santa brought me these two toys, I could be very happy indeed. Old age is (in part) a mixture of cynicism...
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CC Outtake: Suddenly It’s 1997
The title of this recently-shot streetscape would have been “Suddenly It’s 1996″, but just as I snapped, a gen3 Escort shoehorned its way into the shot, announcing: I didn’t appear until the fall of...
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Curbside Classic: 1976 Honda Accord – Modern Architecture
(first posted 9/15/11) The traditional automotive architecture: front engine; rear wheel drive. It was once as ubiquitous as brick buildings are in some parts of the country. The 1976 Honda Accord...
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