GTP Cool Wall: 1955-1957 Ford Thunderbird

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

Meh. I'd actually prefer the 9th gen turbo model and 10th gen 5.0 V8..

So you like being broke down on the side of the road, how brave

My family had the ninth gen turbo and it was only good for overheating and that was the big issue of many Ford cars to share that engine and even some with the 5.0. 10th gen was a bit better though.

 

[Xilor]

Meh. The 292 is a good engine but the whole car doesn't do much for me.

Slash voted meh on a V8 Ford

 

[Slash]

I don't like them all.

 

[XS]

Isn't this a girls' car?

They are nearly impossible to drive if you're larger than an average woman. My uncle restored one for a customer and he asked me to move it a couple times because he couldn't fit in it. I'm just over 6ft and driving it anymore more than just backing it out of the shop would have been very difficult. That right there should be seriously uncool.


...I voted SZ.

 

[AudiMan2011]

Classic early-gen T-Birds are cool.

 

[Adamgp]

Sub Zero, of course.

Especially the supercharged F-Birds.

 

[Cano]

Meh. The 292 is a good engine but the whole car doesn't do much for me.

 

[chzsln485]

The power output is impressive for the time, but the I think the styling as a whole looks really wrong. It looks too narrow and short, almost like one of those replica car kits built on a Smart car (although to a lesser degree). Not a fan.

 

[MoLiEG]

This is Spar... I mean... the 50's!!!!

Cool!

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

Sub-zero, it's a beautiful car and in my opinion the best Thunderbird.

 

[INEEDNAWZZZ]

High cool. Gorgeous car, and in terms of appeal, a smudge better than the C1 Corvette it was competing against in my honest opinion. Shame the later T-Birds never quite had the same relative success this did.

 

[Adamgp]

Shame the later T-Birds never quite had the same relative success this did.

Actually, they did. The T-Birds sold much better after they made it bigger.

 

[INEEDNAWZZZ]

Success was probably the wrong word. I meant they never quite had the appeal of a Boulevard cruiser like this thing. Which, granted, the later ones were never meant to be that anyway, but still would've been cool for them to have been produced with a 2-door sporty design in mind.

 

[Tornado]

The first generation was, aside from the one that knocked it off a decade ago, was actually the worst selling one by far (which puts into context just how bad the Corvette was selling). Once they added four seats to it, it was hard for Ford to sell less than 3 times as many as this one did in its best year; especially when the 70s hit full swing and it broke into CamCord level sales numbers. Only the nasty late 60s model did poor enough to compare.


The Bullet Birds are also I'd say nearly as "big" in terms of historical value, too; though obviously quite different cars.

 

[homeforsummer]

Cool, provided it doesn't have the naff porthole hardtop on it. Some design features are best left in the past.

 

[Badasp5.0]

I voted SZ very cool car.

 

[GTPorsche]

It's a very cool car from a time where American design was at it's best.

 

[Cano]

 

[Dennisch]

Great car to take your girl on a Sunday drive to the beach. Which I did.

Cool.

 

[Zenith]

I'll give it a solid cool. Everybody knows the name, but most people won't recognize one on the street like they would a Corvette.

 

[AlvaroF]

This car is very, very cool, almost SZ.

 

[Joey D]

Cool as long as it isn't rolling slowly across the stage at Barrett Jackson.

 

[CTznOfTime]

Cool...

Best car to pick up granny...


... then drop her off to pick up her grand daughter for the 9pm drive-in movie...

 

[LivingWithGames]

Meh. The 292 is a good engine but the whole car doesn't do much for me.

A muscle car that @Slash dislikes? Okay boys, grab your gear now...the apocalypse is reaching god-damn fast.

 

[SVT Cobra GT]

A '50s T-bird. Seriously cool.

 

[TheCracker]

Cool as long as it isn't rolling slowly across the stage at Barrett Jackson.

It gets cooler if it doesn't have matching numbers.

 

[Cano]

A muscle car

 

[JAHHAJ]

*Ice Cube GIF*

Are you going to post that in every thread?

 

[Cano]

Are you going to post that in every thread?

If so needed. I mean wtf, did you read dat?

Also, since it was even in the same page, I didn't even had to look for it, or for another wtf gif 👍 pure win-win!

 

[Famine]

It's all good fun until daddy takes it away.