My dad surprised my mom with a brand new loaded '68 2-door (no landau top thank God) in January '68. She was nuts about it. The 429 engine was a beast, so fast...they drove the wheels off it, they loved it so much. The car held up well (the C6 tranny NEVER had a problem, nor the engine). By mid '68, my dad HAD to have one of his own, and bought a used '67 (brittany blue with a darker blue landau top) 4-Door 'Bird with the last year of the 428 engine. Also a great, very sturdy car. It was fun growing up in a 2 T-Bird household. My job was to keep them both perfectly waxed and detailed, which I did...went my proms in them!
When I'm ready to retire I wanna but a '67 2 door with a Landau top hey I like those coach emblems on bv the sides , and a 390 in it as well. If n it, a '69 landau with no center console. It will have a 429vthunderjet engine in there. Ooo yeah 😄
@@marcomoreno8188 If you can find a '67 with a 428 in great shape, buy that one. The 428 was very quiet, very refined. Not, as brute fast as the 429, but very nice neverthe less. I loved that car. The 4-door landau interior in '67 was super luxe, and it held up better than the '68
Went to your promS in them...... yeah I'd reckon with 2 hot Thunderbirds in your family's garage you could probably go to prom all 4 years you were in high school. And homecomings. And a lot of other dates. Each time with a different girl.
I'll take 1967 in a minute over today. 35 cents gas, big cars and no safety or pollution equipment. Free road maps at the gas station, open roads And, before the 55 mph speed limit.
Ford had some cheesy commercials in the late 1960s, but this sure was not one of them. "Cast your fate to the wind." was a perfect choice for a T-bird ad, even if the car itself as a bit bloated by this time.
Right before the sedan intro, thought we were going to see a Thelma & Louise situation, Lol... Very cool interesting classic, I prefer the coupe.. Well done indeed
as an 8 time lincoln owner i could say ,,, 1968 and 1975 the thunderbird was the identical car,,, in quality and workmanship ,, ford new how to make cars then,, not like the lincoln today
You've done a great job posting this and other late 1960's Ford commercials. It's nice to see them in color without the red tint. The video and audio quality are both very good. Thank you for posting (and in some cases, re-posting) them. Ford had a pretty good sales year in '68, considering that the year started out with a strike. Just one thing you might want to correct. . .The first year of the 4 door Thunderbirds was actually 1967, not 1968.
Yes, it's an expensive process to get the red out, but I'm really trying to re-upload any previously posted films with the red removed. The other benefit is that it's HD now so the clairity is much better besides the color. You can see more details.
Yes, you are correct, nothing can be done....but we live in a world of technology and there are electronic processes using computers to colorize electronically. The films will always be red, what you're seeing is a electronic version made from the film but enhanced digitally in HD format. Nothing that I can do, I have to pay a company to do it....the equipment they use is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars....there's a whole business out there restoring film.....many people are doing this with home movies.
I chosed the red landau. I owned one from 1978 to1998. Then i could not afford the fuel consumption, so i sold it. It makes me a litte sad today, 25 years later, but i know that the car is still alive.
Thanks for posting this and all of your ads. If I had my way, they would still be making a 4 door thunderbird. That's my choice. I'll take the girl as well, although I'd probably opt for her daughter. She'd me more my age.
Not sure if anyone else noticed that the shot of the rear tailights is not the final OEM set up, but a prototype set. It's missing the center section. Odd that they would allow this to air like that!? Terry
I Missed the T-Bird Convertable, I was 5 When Ford Decided to Drop T-Bird Drop Top after the 66 Model Year, didn't Understand as a Child, but Today as a 61 Year Old Man, I still don't understand why Ford Ended the T-Bird Drop Top after 66.
The 67 to 69 T-Birds were some of of the best Ford's of the time. They weren't the Lincoln T-birds of the 70's nor were they the coupe only birds of the early to mid 60's. Good size car.not too big not too small.
I was 12 years old. The T -bird was beginning to change but it still retained the spirit of the original, iconic Thunderbird. After this Ford and GM pretty much abandoned any sense and semblance of automotive style and class and with few exceptions, ( '70 '71Tbird) built garbage for a good part of the next 20 years.
My brother's '70 Thunderbird 2-door was quick about going through the gas I put in, when I borrowed it in high school. 7-8 mpg as I recall, it did feel a bit like you were lifting off when you put your foot into it.
I love the vids and appreciate what you do but there is an error in your narrative about the 4-door. It was introduced in '67, not '68, and lasted for 5 years, not 3, 1971 being the last year.
Thanks. I do appreciate you're comments and will fix the error. I get them wrong sometimes and do appreciate the correction, my pet peave is internet errors and myths....so I don't want to create one! lol
It sounds a lot like a reworking of Shelby Flint's version of "Cast your fate to the wind.", though the Sounds Orchestral version is my favorite. Many people still prefer the Vince Guaraldi original, from 1963.
Yeah, that's the 2020 twist. It'd be funny to do a series of sketch comedy involving old commercials looking and sounding as they did, but updated to match today's mores
@@MisterMikeTexas I finally saw a 4-door Mustang; it reminded me of a play by Shakespeare, because I wanted to gouge my eyes out. I will never understand how a company that produced such a beautiful car as this T-Bird could consciously choose to produce such a train wreck as the four door Mustang. It's a sad day.....
@@douglasstark1657 Well GM has bastardized many of its iconic badges over the past 50 years, and more recently installed a quota hire female CEO! Ford is playing catch-up, it looks like.
