4/3/2024 0 Comments 1963 ford thunderbird italien![]() $10K was a lot of money then but no doubt Robertson was well-heeled enough to purchase it. He previously had been gifted a Buick show car. There is inconsistency whether DST sold it to Robertson for $10K or gifted it to him. Well, the article says Ford contracted DST to build the car and later sold it to them for $5K, about $41K in current dollars. Nevertheless, I love the look of the production bullet bird hard top.ĭoesn't it seem odd that one would be gifted a such a rare car (or pay an exorbitant price) and then just give it away 1 year later? Even though my eyes aren't used to seeing that roof on that car, the lines are probably more congruous than the production T-bird, with it's square angular roof attached to a body that had a lot of curve in the side profile. As you said, it was the end of the run for the bullet bird and the Starliner roof had already been gone a couple of years by the time this car car was made.īeing removed by over 50 years, I don't personally see the car as cheesy. People might've thought Ford was just throwing together existing styling cues. It wouldn't surprise me if many others had that perception when it was made, too, and that might've made the project come across as a little cheesy for some back then. That's exactly how I perceived it, per my initial comment. First impression was it was neat they transplanted a '60-'61 Starliner roof onto a Thunderbird convertible body. ![]() I recall first seeing the '63 Thunderbird Italien photos in a copy of the Ford Times magazine that my father received as a customer of the local dealer.
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