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The 1962 is my favorite year of the Thunderbird. I like it better even than the original Tri-5 T-Birds. This car pulls off laid back, sporty and elegant simultaneously.

 

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This is a 1962 T-Bird convertible. The car had a REALLY complicated hydraulic automatic top mechanism, that retracted and replaced the top. The entire rear deck would rise. The car was a four-seat with the top up and a Two-seater with the top down, if you had the cowl installed on the car, that deployed when the top went down.
 

I remember my father working on one of them, when I was twelve. The amount of hydraulic pumps, piping, hydraulic switches, limit switched, etc was mind-boggling. They didn’t have today’s tech, so they had to do things the hard way. It was an amazing piece of engineering.

 

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8 minutes ago, NPTim said:

This looks nothing like a corvette. Looks more Italian.

I think it is absolutely beautiful. They did an outstanding job with the design and it most definitely sounds like a Vette. That is a hell of a lot of car for under $60k. 

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