And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I never noticed the speedo in those cars. Odd, since I tried to buy one! Back in the early 70's, a guy I knew had a business making repro parts for those early T-birds. Called T-Boyd Products, IIRC, located in Wildwood, NJ. He also refurbed the cars if he could buy them. I helped him with torquing the rod (and maybe crank?) bolts on his last T-bird, and he offered it to me for ~$1200. I couldn't come up with the money soon enough, so it sold on the market for maybe twice that. He closed the business and retired to FL. No one was interested in buying it, IIRC.
Guy paid for his daughter's wedding a couple years earlier, spent $10k on it, and the marriage lasted less than a year. He was not thrilled with her choice in men.
'55 Thunderbird?
ReplyDeleteDefinitely early T-bird, 54-57. Love the wind wings.
ReplyDeleteHas to be a '55 or '56 - the '57 doesn't have that cool plexiglass speedometer housing (that was also on the '55 Ford).
ReplyDeleteDoes that speedometer go up to 150 ?
ReplyDeleteNo, top reads 120mph.
Deletelook again, closer this time
DeleteYour are right, 150. Looked like 110+120, but the resolution is terrible. But, if you count from the left hand side, it totals up.
DeleteI never noticed the speedo in those cars. Odd, since I tried to buy one! Back in the early 70's, a guy I knew had a business making repro parts for those early T-birds. Called T-Boyd Products, IIRC, located in Wildwood, NJ. He also refurbed the cars if he could buy them. I helped him with torquing the rod (and maybe crank?) bolts on his last T-bird, and he offered it to me for ~$1200. I couldn't come up with the money soon enough, so it sold on the market for maybe twice that.
DeleteHe closed the business and retired to FL. No one was interested in buying it, IIRC.
Guy paid for his daughter's wedding a couple years earlier, spent $10k on it, and the marriage lasted less than a year. He was not thrilled with her choice in men.