Style , top executive , and comfort : Put them together in anautomobileand it ’s sure to be a winner . That ’s the compounding that influence so well for the 1955FordThunderbirdconvertible .
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The power part of the par came from the 292 - Criminal Investigation Command version of the corporate " atomic number 39 - block " ohv V-8 shared withMercury . Equipped with a Holley four - barrelcarburetorand twofold exhaust system , it made 193 bhp at 4,400 revolutions per minute in cars built with the received three - speedmanual transmission , or 198 bhp in those fitted with the extra - monetary value Fordomatic automatic gear box . Overdrive was also usable for stickshift car .
Though it was revolutionise by the many – mostly foreign - build –sports carsthat were capturing the imagination of American partizan in the other 1950s , the Thunderbird was built like a little luxury car . Its family unit car - likesuspensiondelivered a softer drive than " thoroughgoing " sports cars ( and would be made softer still in 1956 ) .
Roll - up windows and the availableness of a removable fibreglass top lent more all - weather comfort than the folding tops and snap - in curtains link up with most other two - seaters . A standard telescoping direction column helped number one wood find an optimal position behind the rack . Optional power assists cradled passenger in the lap of opulence .
While other sports railcar for sale in the U.S. sold in small bit , the first - yr T - Bird managed to advance over 16,155 customers . Though great numbers for the market class , they were small by Ford Motor Company monetary standard ; come 1958 , a far more democratic four - seat Thunderbird interchange the winsome two - place cars of 1955 - 1957 .
Ray Scherr , of Westlake Village , California , own the 1955 Thunderbird featured here . It is the intersection of a two - year return completed in 2002 . Painted Goldenrod Yellow – one of five colors available for that year ’s T - Birds – it is fit out withautomatic transmission , power windowsand rear , aradio , and a heater .
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