The interior looks decent, apart from a worn-out carpet and upholstery. The seller says it will start, but the fuel tank needs to be drained and clean for this car to run properly. The engine bay also needs some work, especially since the car has been sitting for four years.
Listed on Facebook Marketplace, it needs restoration as the paint has seen far better days. It's the engine that turned the Thunderbird into a full-fledged muscle car.Ĥ29-powered Thunderbirds aren't necessarily hard to come by, but this one's really affordable at $4,800. It was the highest-revving V8 available in the fifth-generation Big Bird (1967 to 1971), and it remained on offer until 1973. The 7.0-liter V8 in the Thunderbird is not a Boss, but it packs similar power at 360 horsepower. Rated at 375 horsepower, the Boss 429 Mustang is now regarded as being among the rarest and most valuable muscle cars to date. It was offered in the Boss Mustang from 1969 to 1970 to fulfill Ford's need to homologate it for NASCAR racing. The 385-series 429 V8 is actually famous for having spawned the Boss 429, a race-spec engine that Ford created as a response to Chrysler's 426 Hemi. This engine debuted in 1967 as a replacement for the iconic FE V8, but it didn't survive for long in this configuration, as it was phased out in 1973. Well that's enough of my rambling.This 1968 Thunderbird here isn't a four-door, but one of those rare Big Birds offered with the optional 429-cubic-inch (7.0-liter) V8 of the 385-series variety. Also ALL Thunderbirds were built only at the Wixom plant as well. I guess they only wanted the headlights to be on.ĮDIT FUN FACT: Did you know that up until like the 70's Thunderbird was not a Ford product but a line in itself? Yup! If you ever watch old Thunderbird commercials from the 50's to late 60's they always said something like "New from Thunderbird!" Or "There's a new Thunderbird!" Ford really did hold Thunderbird in high regard for quite some time. The turn signals should still work normally when you click them on respectively. A little feature carried over from the previous generation of Thunderbird. Now when you pull the switch to bring on the headlights the front turn signals would shut off so only the head lights are on.
If the same is true for all the cars what happens is when you bring on the parking lights all marker lights come on. The turn signals were housed in individual housings. The 69 had only a partial front bumper with a lower front valence. Not sure if the others did because I believe the other cars had a solid front bumper with the turn signals in them. These era Thunderbird had a weird feature for the front turn signals.
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