1960 Ford Thunderbird T Bird Hardtop in Blue 352 Engine & Ride on My Car Story with Lou Costabile 

I Bought The 1960 Ford Thunderbird In 1965, It Was My Most Favorite Car I Have Ever Ownwd.

The Mid 50's throughout the 60's were the glory years of the American auto industry in what was designed and created, particularly when compared to what was made in all other in countries in the world. When you owned cars like this T-Bird you felt special driving down the street.

I always love the thunderbird. The body lines are amazing and the interior is like a jewelry box.

Very nice 1960 Ford Thunderbird Lou Costabile! 60 year old same age me.😁

Simply Breathtaking! It’s just so Nice to see that the Owner keeps this car as ORIGINAL as can be, right down to the CORRECT bias ply Tires, to the CORRECT exhaust ends! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

WOW, NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!! ONE OF MY FAVORITES!

That sir is a work of art !

Both Dennis and his T-Bird have lots of "soul!" Love it when you feature cars with all these unique details and qualities. I was flabbergasted by all the color options! Thanks Lou!

What a great looking car ! Now that's a car for cruising around town. Beautiful

i LOVE these square birds. I was not that big of a fan of the early birds...but in 1958 -1960 models, that's when I really took notice of these cars. So nice...insides and out. Great detail on the video as always! I always learn something from the cars you feature...even though I've been liking these cars for years. Beautiful from every angle!, inside and out!

They sure did know how to make pretty cars back in the 60`s..

Excellent car! Just gorgeous! Great to see your Viper in the background. Thanks for taking us along Lou.

The wind just makes the 'bird prettier ~ what a car! thanks Lou

beautiful car I love that car is beautiful keep up the good work you doing what you doing stay healthy

Always a sucker for Dual Cowl Cockpits. My Impala has that and i think it adds to much more interest to the dash. Anyone buying one of these in the 60’s would have EVERY EYEBALL starring at them as you drive by in this. Your Neighbors would be envious for sure. You were SOMEONE!

Very nice and a unique color combination. They never had a 332 or 427 engine option in 1960. Always liked the square birds and this is an especially nice example.

What a beautiful bird I love Thunderbirds well, of course, I have a 1959 Thunderbird nice original car base model only power windows and & power brakes this one I plan to restore but what a beautiful car. And Lou thanks for bringing the true classic to life once again.

Thanks Lou! Square birds are my favorite!

❤️Tbird yes

They had a color Rose Beigh; gorgeous combination with brown and tan interiors.

Wow you did it again Lou! We had a 69 yellow TBird coup white interior 429 Thunderjet! I remember on vacation my old man racing a Charger on the interstate and we had a blow out at 120 mph. Good times! No one was hurt dad pulled over and changed the flat.

A really beautiful car from a wonderful time. Makes you proud to be an American!

My father had one in beige. I love these birds. I'm partial to the hard tops. Thanks for sharing

My absolute favorite year of T-Bird and all because of the Triple Taillights!❤️

What a sight to take in 🤩

Man...these vintage Thunderbirds give me goosebumps bigger than a basketball !!! I LOVE Thunderbirds, and my family had many of them throughout the years. I continue to hold a very special fondness and appreciation towards the Ford Thunderbird. One of the absolute best and most unique cars ever built. I learned to drive during my youth, in my father's rather new at the time, 1969 Thunderbird with the 429 CID Thunder-Jet. What a car to drive !!! Thank You Wholeheartedly and Immensely For Sharing These Superb Presentations. Peace and Harmony.

Cant stop watching your videos they are so addictive

An older gentleman in my neighborhood had a 1960 Thunderbird when I was a kid. He lovingly cared for that car and drove it for 10 years. That was not typical in those days. He bought a ‘70 Mercedes Diesel after that. That was somewhat less than exciting.

I had forgotten how stylish these cars were!

Interesting color combination and the options for paint choices! Love, the story of him going to court with his father.

Ford's answer to the Riviera. Beautiful 😍

Lou!! This is one of the best Thunderbirds I have ever seen. Your presentation of this car was perfect. The condition of this car was so in mint! I also would have liked to have known the difference in the body styles from 1958 to 1960. By the way, I was born in 1960.

Absolutely gorgeous! 💙 it.

Thanks for taking the effort to find all these cars for us!

beautiful thunderbird, i like these square birds way better than the first generation

My Uncle had a Thunderbird of about this year. I got to ride in it. I thought it was special even back then. Thanks for showing this car, we will go back to it over and over through the years!

Soy fan de estos videos tuyos. Un Thunderbird de la década de los '50 en blanco o celeste es mi preferido. Este, de 1960, es grandioso. Muy bien cuidado ¡ felicitaciones ! 👍

The motor sounds sweet...a very practical classic.

Just GREAT! ... I painted my first car a '57 Ford that color when in H.S. The big bird was still considered a "Daddy's car" back then. Thanks Lou...

Awesome T Bird and a great owner.

Marvelous car and video Lou~ thanks!

Extremely beautiful

Wow ! A T'Bird from the year I was born . As always another great car story .

beautiful bird thank you free service and your time and the sound marvelous GS out

I'm glad you said it looks like it's from the factory......... my exact thought when you walked up to the car!! Another great "showcase" with Dennis!! Beautiful personal luxury to start the 1960's!😉

Wow! Just wow!!!!

Smiled the whole way through this one 💕 👍 TFS. The square birds are my favorites!

A beauty. I would use the word pristine to describe it, but that’s an understatement. Thanks a lot, Lou!

Wow, great SquareBird - very straight and beautify kept. Thanks Lou!

Lou,you always feature cars I love! Your the best, thanks!

Wow Lou this unit was just awesome! Breathtaking is the word on this car. Boy this car is just so stylish ans the color just sends me! It has that cool and refreshing feeling this car has with those colors in and out. Now this car looked like brand new! I was just 2 years old when this car came out. I love the wings on the back the tail lights and the front grille it is just so cool. That 352 engine we had that in our 1965 Ford Country Sedan Wagon. A great engine very powerful but also was so hard on fuel. But this car looks like it just floats on air. The owner was so cool too! I am so anxious to see his convertible! If it looks like this one the convertible has to be really out of sight! Thanks for sharing Lou this was a great video!!!!

Outstanding video as always.

I had the same car in high school, mine had the factory sun roof and a/c, another one I should've kept.

A thing my exceptional autos class teacher taught us in high school, Ford always used colors to make it easier to service and locate parts.

Another great car from Dennis's collection. To me that was the second generation Thunderbird that was tweaked for all succeeding generations throughout the sixties and into the early seventies. To me that is the generation that defined the Thunderbird. Not the first generation of two seaters. I believe the very first Thunderbird I ever road in was either a 60 or a 59. I was in the first or second grade when Dr. Lee, one of my neighborhood friend's mother, gave us a ride to school on her way to the hospital. We had six of us kids piled into that car. Two in the front and four in the back. I think the One and only Thunderbird I got to drive was a 60. It was a 9 or 10 year old used car a friend had bought and let me drive it in the shopping center parking lot. I personally think Ford would have been more successful if they had built a Thunderbird in 2002 based on this model rather than the two seater model they did build.

Had to add , great camera work on this one and liked the drive by view,

It's a nice sunny day, so let's make a little thunder! LOL! (The wind was making some of its own!) Looks like Dennis and his family have proven that "most wanted car" slogan correct! Huey Lewis was right. It IS hip to be square! Thanks, Lou and Dennis for taking us along on this special ride!

"Mr. Sinatra, your car is ready sir...."

Neat car!! I wish the owner would have explained what the police package included. The drivers' smile says it all ;)

Last of the GREAT T-BIRDS. Lost my love for them after this. Thanks Lou.

The Square Birds were unique, they offered a back seat and finally came in both a coupe and a convertible versus the 55-57 baby birds. One could even get a monstrous big block a 430 which produced 350 h.p. With dual quads and a hotter cam and better heads it produced almost 400 h.p.!!! The base engine for the Square Bird was a 300 h,p, 352. I loveall of the Birds from 55 through 66. Iconic beauties.

What a great color!

Dennis is a lucky guy Lou!

Nice 60 Ford T-Bird Lou, that color is so COOL, my favorite color too. He needs to drive that car more often Lou & shoe it off to the public. Keep up the great interviews on those classic cars my friend.🙏🏻❤️✌️💚👍

Hi Lou, Another great video. This 1960 is in beautiful condition. The 58 and 59 were distinguishable with two rear lights on each side as apposed to the 1960 which had three. Although the baby birds 55, 56 and 57, were more popular with the purists, sales for the 1958 model year had tripled. The reasoning for the increase was the immediate appeal for a family of four to ride comfortably in style while maintaining the sporty appearance offered by the T bird. I must add one more comment. It must be refreshing for you when you read the positive comments from your viewers. They seem to collectively have a great deal of knowledge in regards to the vehicles you display in your videos. This also becomes most beneficial for yourself. Having this knowledge prior to the filming of one of your videos is certainly a plus. Take care Lou and stay healthy. Brian

Interesting year in ford's history, nice car Lou !

I don't know Lou between those 2 blue cars in that driveway I'm thinking I like that Blue Bird the best :-). Great car and another great video. Thanks, Lou!

Another great car and video, thanks

I like the hood scoop on this T-bird, and almost forgot about the 352 engine - and the fact it's a big block. 300 hp nothing to sneeze at. Stay safe owner!

Wow! I don’t recall seeing a ‘SquareBird” on your channel so I HAD to watch this. One of the most ridiculous, ambitious, risky, cartoonish, outrageously styled cars to ever emerge from Ford, and it hit the mark so well it immediately created the ‘Personal Luxury’ class of automobile, which by the mid-late 1970’s nearly 50% of new car sales were laying claim to. I love it. Lou your camera work has gotten so good, it can sometimes give conflict to an owners claims. As I recall, these LARGE ‘SquareBirds’ were full unit body construction, leaving many of them riddled with squeaks, flexing issues, rattles, as well as major rust out problems. Nowadays, more often than not the ‘restored’ examples, upon quick examination, under their shiny paint jobs, seem to hide a bubble gum, bondo, cave it, pave it and hide it approach to insanely expensive ‘proper’ repairs. Your fine camera work showed me an absolutely PERFECT example!! “Better Than New”’ is an insulting term, another way of saying “More Money Than Brains”. This car is IMO, best described as.., “Ford was showcasing their 1960 offerings at a NYC auto show, open to the public, all makes and models. Ford grabbed a Thunderbird off the assembly line, trimmed in the most attractive colors of the day (Thank you, Dennis! for NOT redoing it in red and white.) Ford then sends it to its paint and trim shops as a ‘show car special’, where it is thoroughly gone over, repaint to show car perfection, all interior and exterior trim checked for imperfections then lined up perfectly, checked for fit and finish. Finally detailed, it is sent off to the auto show to impress possible Ford customers. For a mere $4900, Ford will build one for you!” And if you’re lucky, be just as tight and look just as nice as ‘this’ one, lol. That’s a LONG way of saying thx to Dennis for preserving and displaying this car, as a true representation of what they looked like before they all rusted into the ground and became “restored”’ and re-imagined as “the ‘50’s - ‘60s” in which every car on the road has Kelsey-Hayes spokes, WIDE whitewalls, all painted red/white, black/white or pink with twin trunk antennas, glovebox tissue dispensers and those HIDEOUS continental kits hanging 8 feet off the rear bumper, factory installed of course, 1 of 1. Plus, back in ‘the good old days’ apparently over 50% of all cars had exhaust manifold leaks and poor carburetor tuning, plus dual exhausts and glasspacks to hide those sins. Forgive my sarcasm, it’s really all in good fun (mostly) lol. Beautiful car Dennis. I especially noted the perfect ‘sheen’ on the interior, the FLAWLESS anodized ribbed dash trim, and thank you! for finding one of the rarest of rare; a SquareBird WITHOUT the 1 of 1 awful looking continental kits. I’m not a T-bird guy, but if memory serves me the factory continental kit was 1 year, 1956, to alleviate the lack of trunk space in the ‘55 design. Ford themselves disliked the look of ‘the kit’ so much they actually redesigned and lengthened the trunk of the ‘57 so the spare could go back to live in it’s proper place: HIDDEN in the trunk. Most classic cars with ‘factory continental kits’ are actually wearing dealer installed aftermarket accessory kits. They should be immediately tossed in the trash with the ‘factory’ curb feelers. That’s what I did with my Stingray’s continental kit. No offense and thanks to ALL who are preserving our heritage, with or without their own take on it:) Individuality is always subject to criticism, but it should be celebrated as a representation of what makes The USA such a wonderful place. I’m currently ordering a set of American Racing wheels for my all original (mostly) lol, ‘72 350, 4 speed Stingray, BUT, no wide whites and no continental kit. Yet. Blasphemy, nonetheless. And it’s not red, it’s GREEN (yuck). And if Lou is actually still reading this mental episode of mine, he’s such a genuine guy and a car nut, soaking up every bit of info he can and recording it, passing it on.., doing the work of “the car ‘God’s’”. Thanks so much Lou, wishing you and yours good health always. And if you’re ever up in scenic Sussex, northern New Jersey, I’d be proud to be featured on your channel. Show you all the good and the bad (plenty of both) on my mostly original not hot rodded or upgraded to death Stingray, flip you the keys, I record your driving impressions. If you can handle that wicked (and gorgeous) RT/10, the ‘Vette will be a walk in the park. Thanks to Dennis as well. He and his beautiful T-Bird inspired me to write this, so blame him;)

How would you like to see this coming up behind you in the rear view mirror? We had 1958, off-white one of these & it had black & white interior, and it was HUGE. As I recall, it ran on ethyl gas. What a beautiful piece of American history. This generation of T-birds are definitely one of my favorites, and I’m not even a Ford fan. LOL!! Thanks Lou & Dennis for a great presentation!

She's got the lot,beautiful seats

Between this T'Bird and the 60 Chrysler 300F, these were two of US best looking cars right there. Looking at these brochures, which are probably very expensive in their own right due to their condition and rarity, both vehicles are luxury bankers hotrods. It's amazing that such socially conservative times produced some of US most expressive looking automotive sculptures. Thanks Lou :-)

Wow!

I bought a '59 with my friend in 1975 for $100. We were only 16, so we couldn't even legally drive it. We thought we'd restore it, but sadly the project never got that far: money. inexperience and my mother wanting it out of the garage all converged and a year later I sold it to the friend who I subsequently lost touch with. About 5 years later, I saw the car on the street in New York City, in pretty much the same condition as when I sold it. I wish I had found a way to keep it. Back in the '70's, cars like this were practically given away. I always liked the 58-60 square birds over the 55-57 smaller ones.

Very nicely preserved automobile Lou.I like the second generation Thunderbirds.Not so much the ones that followed till about 1977.They got too heavy and large!

Beautiful 'Bird. It would look even better with the fender skirts installed.

Sweet T-Bird 😀

Before they became something unrecognizable as a Thunderbird, there were models like this one that was worthy of the Thunderbird name. 👍🏻😉

Fantastic car, and the square birds are affordable too, a beautiful example of a red coupe with red & white interior is for sale near me on the Massachusetts / New Hampshire line for 13K. No Takers. I love this blue colour on Dennis's T-Bird ! I gravitate towards it ! - Sandy

Lou I think the color of this car makes it look fast just sitting still. So nice..... I think a lot of your fans along with myself would like for you to do a episode of your Viper. I think that would be pretty cool. Have a great day Lou.

Beautiful!! so original,i doubt you would find better

Amazing windshield

Cool

Oh how fierce strong and brave and if you take it like that you can safely cut through the roads

i had a nice 67 2dr hard top ,would love a 61!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blue🔘tiful Bird 😁

Love square birds

GREAT CAR and nice owner, wish him well, I owned for a short time a 352 powered one and it ran smooth as a kitten, always wondered how you would ever replace a windshield on one of these.

Best designed T Bird

winter jan -1966 drove my 59 black on black t-bird with the 352 from rochester n.y. to down down l.a. in 3 days 9 hrs on old route 66 started in jolet ill. .non stop with on other guy who was going to marine corp track school in ocean side ...we swapped driving every tank fill . just kept it on 85 mph and floated along ...1 speeding ticket in some dirt bag town by a indian cop out west ... no trouble hit l.a. and burned out a headlight and left frt flat ..drove it to june 66 up and down to l.a. and on base .. when i went to nam i gave it to my friend who drove it back towing a trailer to n.y.city where the trans gave out ...he pulled my plates and left it on the road .. crazy times . 59-60 had leaf rear springs the 58 had coil rear springs which were a fail item with any weight ..it sagged bad

If anybody is missing the rear window of this car… I have two of them in mint condition. I would love to get rid of them cheap. Just to help out for your car and to show how valuable Lou is… Not only for entertaining but if he hooked me up with you to get your window… Windows…And I live in the Chicago area…

Watched another vid by Ford touting the new '60 models and how the knee-knocker was gone on the full size cars and what a great improvement on entering and exiting it was. But, the Bird has the knee-knocker. :)

Production of the 1960 Thunderbird Coupe was 80,938 and 1960 Thunderbird Convertible was 11,860. That was the highest sales until the cheaper mass market 1977 edition. The Squarebird created the personal luxury car. The Lincoln sourced 430 V-8 had 350 horsepower and is highly sought after today. Only 2,536 Thunderbirds with the manually operated sun roof were sold...so unpopular that this option did not reappear until 1969. Base price of the Coupe was $3755 but was so plain that buyers almost always added options. The big money today is in the rarer convertibles...especially the 1958 Convertible which is the Holy Grail of Squarebirds. The 1959 and 1960 Thunderbird Coupes are still common today and frequently appear for sale on Craigslist, but rarely as perfectly restored as this example. These 4-passenger Thunderbirds were very chic cars in the 1960s and were popular among upper class women who liked their manageable size. The Palomino interior of this example is probably rarer than a blue or white which was probably more common with blue paint. My favorite is the later 1961 Thunderbird.

Beautiful car. Technically the "Police Package" would have included the 360-horse 352HP engine which included a solid-lifter cam, special intake and exhaust manifolds, and raised compression from C0AE-D heads at 60cc instead of the standard C0AE-C heads at 73cc. This engine was standard in the Police Galaxie, but optional in the T-Bird. For general cruising purposes, the 300-horse in this car was probably a better choice.

I have a black 1960 T-Bird in my back yard covered with a fabric car cover and plastic tarp that I was going to restore, but I found I don't have the time or money to do it. The body and chrome are perfect, but the paint is peeling badly. It has the 352 V8 and factory 3 speed manual with overdrive. Someone installed a floor shit and small steering wheel many years ago. It runs good, but I haven't started it in a few years. Battery is toast, of course. One of these days I plan to uncover it and put it up for sale. I'll never restore it.

Beautiful T-bird. Looks like Louie was a little rough with the magazine's.

That one mint gen 2 tbird bet it rode smooth as silk

Don't see many of those Thunderbirds that year model. My Uncle had a blue 1960 Thunderbird hardtop. He bought it from a guy who got mad because the power windows quit working in it. So my Uncle Sam bought and fixed the power windows and kept it for several years. He traded it for a 1966 Thunderbird hardtop.

I worked at Ford dealership and drove many T-birds. Really liked them, however they were useless in snow or on ice.