The car is said to be unmodified and unrestored, and has been driven 200 miles since the selling dealer’s purchase one month ago. To enter the hobby.This 1979 Ford Thunderbird shows just over 30k miles and is powered by a 302ci V8 paired with an automatic transmission. These cars make excellent hobby cars and our reasonable cost wise A few members of our club have this generation of T-bird. Was a nice car with a 302 and was whisper quiet, I quickly sold it. In my college days I bought a 79 Cougar xr7 to flip, this

In 1980 I purchased a 79 Chrysler 300 for half its list price, this was when Chrysler was facing its 1st bankruptcy. I chose to drive my high mileage 72 Mark IV for 2 more Our club president Roger Noll owned a 78 Diamond Jubilee and reported gas mileage in the high teens. While looking at the 78, there was a diamond I remember looking at a fully loaded 76 lipstick edition and it listed for nearly $7500. I remember looking at a new 78 and did not like the gaudy looking straps on the trunk, a one year only option for 78. There were many reasons for this: lower cost, more parts inter- changeability from other ford lines, smaller and better Thunderbirds of 77-79, sold 3 times as many as the previous generation. 1976 had a production number of 52,935 while the 72-76 generation had a total production of 299,146 for the 4 years of this series.

With a total of 318,140 produced in 1977, ford meant their goal of selling more Thunderbirds, with a total of 955,032 from this

With a chassis datingīack to 1972, many incarnations of ford cars were produced with this chassis, the cougar xr7, from 74-79, the Torino and ranchero from 72-79, the Mark IV and Mark V from 72-79 and the Gran TorinoĮlite from 74-76, the car the Thunderbird replaced from 77-79. Never paid much attention to this series of Thunderbird, though distinctive, I feel ford diluted the exclusivity of this series of thunderbird from previous generations. I hope all members had a nice holiday and look forward to seeing you this spring at our annual event planning meeting.

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