I heard this from the people who built the car - uh, tooting my own horn, they sent me the radio for conversion. 1964 Ford thunderbird convertible, This car runs and drives great and overall in really good shape, It is a very solid car with no rust on the body.
They only made one car this way, unlike most movies which utilize a handful of cars. Why? Because of the body - they were able to make it into a four-wheel-drive, so they could put it on a lift and film it with all four wheels turning. This is the Budd railroad car company, which might help explain why these things are built like a railroad car - almost 5,000 pounds and so solid that they could beat up everything else in a demolition derby.īut that also explains why the front wheel wells are so huge you could throw a party back there, but the engine compartment has no room - barely enough for a 390 big block.Īnother tidbit - they used a 1963 Thunderbird to film the movie Flubber.
But I understand Ford didn't want to try unibody on their own, and had the Budd Company make the bodies for the 1961 Thunderbirds. I don't know if the front-drive would have been a good or bad thing.
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