Mr Goodpliers returns to the abandoned farmstead with Joe and Gordon to load a 1960 Ford Thunderbird. Follow along and see it come out of the mud, and onto the trailer for the ride home!
Good job, guys. She was a pretty car once. I had a 1960, one of the few Thunderbirds with a standard shift, most were automatic. When you drive a T-Bird at 140 MPH, that is going so fast you can see the gas guage heading to empty. I was a construction laborer here in Northern Virginia, never let a little mud bother me. Sometimes there was a lot of mud. I would clean my glasses and my watch with a toothbrush when I got home. As the Beach Boys sang, T-Birds are "Fun, Fun, Fun."
Oh the memories, I can remember these car when I was a kid, rode in them often. Yeah I've recovered cars like this 40 years ago, I usually drove them away though. Great video guys just love it but glad it's not me now.😅😅👍👍👍👍👍❤🇺🇸
I like Gordon. He in for the ride. Skunks are cool. Make great pets. No Cockroches in your house. But illegal to own them now. Not a ford man but the Thunderbird was ahead of us time. Cool looking car.
All I can say is beauty or your wallet is in the eyes of the beholder, (or buyer in this case). Glad you showed some respect for the dead, even if it was a skunk LOL! Thanks for the video!
Awesome even respect for the skunk 👍very humanitarian of you guys but that was a nice car in its day actually still is looking forward to see where it goes from here.😊 loved the video and content 👌I'll subscribe keep it up
Interesting how you can Jack on a 60 year old car sitting on the ground and not bend metal, but you don’t dare Jack a 20 year old car on the recommended Jack points for fear it all collapses! That rear brake drum was fighting all the way! And man what a lot of work to move it from its original place to the trailer. Who would have thought? Thanks for posting!
I have a different perspective maybe or not but this offers hope as there were millions of homes back then as well and as they come out of the woodwork, comes some very interesting picking for just about anyone as its not just cars. I think back when the marron overstuffed chair sat outside... those people put out a reasonable amount of money to buy this piece of furniture and it set them back a bit and more rice hit the table until they recovered the buy.... no one sat in poppa's chair but the kids played in it till he got home then piled on the arms of it to be near dad. Welding or livestock tools, a anvil or three scattered about at almost every home that was considered a farm. What I'm getting at was there were thousands of little farms until mrs Roosevelt took them from them as they foreclosed on bad loans. Most of the farms became part of a conglomerate and never were touched, just taken cause they could and then put into huge squares of land that went into the private holdings of a corrupt government ... luckily it was discovered and some even had chances back on their farm just to find that making a go of it too hard to overcome the losses of it; The spendy cars were on farms that were so poor that how they got a nice car like that is beyond me. Point in being, at least hundreds more exist waiting to be found. Oddly roads abandoned becomes the reason that old road was there to go to a big farm of the day
The Civil War destroyed the Yeoman farmers, but they were great shots for the South. They thought they had to fight to keep there farms from the greedy Yankee's. They lost and the Carpet badger came and took them. History repeats, government wins like dealer win in Las Vegas.
WENTS I WAS 4 years OLD. I plays in the sideways WITH my free 1959 toys T.Bird FROM Quake Oaks the Captain meals.I LOVES Alls T.Bird Model. Buts my favors was the 1958 likes Drake of the Berry Mason Lawer Show.Now I m 66 YEARS OLD.had a 1989 T.Bird Brought FOR $7.000 in 1995.Great Cars.
Glad you saved it for parts. A sister to my 1960 Thunderbird, platinum silver, black leather interior, 64K miles. I bought it in 1992 and it is ready for restoration. There was no hard top option for 1958-1960, only moonroof in 1960. I could understand someone thinking it since the hardtop was available for 1955-1957. My 2004 Thunderbird has removable hardtop so Ford revised it for the last gen. Hoping Ford brings Thunderbird back, probably as an electric vehicle.
That Tbird looks restorable if you have the parts to fix the body damage. I'm restoring a 60 Tbird convertible and it came with a parts car. It has good rear quarters and a trunk lid. I needed the front sheet metal. I had to drill out hundreds of spot welds because fenders are welded on. I also used the rear end for a hot rod. I had to cut off the brake drums. I don't know where you're located but I think it's too far from me to be of any help. I'm located in Maine. I posted some videos on my channel when I pulled the rear end so you can check it out. I would sell the rest of the car for the price of the trunk lid if you're interested.
Unrestorable. Would cost a fortune. There are decent running and driving ones that can be purchased for around 10.000. In places like Southern California, or Arizona rust free. This would cost at least bare minimum, 20.000 to just get back to driving conditions, more like 25.000.
MYS FAVORS CARS EVER BUILT.BUTS MY FAVOR WAS 1958 T.BIRD.THIS ONE IS A 1959 MODEL POSSIBLE WITH THE 312CU Y BLOCK. BEFORE THE 352 OR 390CU CAME OUT.THE 1960 CAME OUT WITH 1 BIG ROUND TAILLIGHTS.HADS A 1989 T.BIRD WITHS CLOSE TO 300,000 THOUSAND MILES AND RUNS LIKES 100,000 MILES ONLY.SUPER CARS THEYS ARES.
You must a never ben to the pacific northwest!! We got cars completely made of moss up here. That's just soft patina right there. also 1960's all blue license plate with yellow lettering is Washington DC I belive
The part I hate the most is dealing froze up drums. Rarely come loose for me and unless they are expensive drums to replace torch them. I've wasted too much time fighting these things over the years. Get it on the trailer, torch them when I get home while its on the trailer.
All the convertible Thunderbirds from 1958 on used a version of the retractable mechanism from the Skyliner, but Thunderbirds only ever had fabric roofs that disappeared into the trunk, not metal ones.
My '60 T bird has a perfect body, but the paint is peeling very badly. Runs good with original gear, i.e. 352, 3 speed on the floor with overdrive. Want to buy it? I have too many cars. BTW, I'm in Oregon.
I didn’t appreciate the way the owners manual was tossed around with an attitude of trash toward it. Those manuals can be restored and add value to the car. I also didn’t like the comments that the car was going to be parted rather than destroyed. Thunderbirds of this era go up in value. It is fool hardy to part them out given the huge return they can bring fully restored.
Are you parting it out? I have a 59 with that same mirror as your passengers side mirror. Mines mounted on the drivers fender. Been looking for one. Also looking for door glass, skirts, and the cast hood scoop. Mine fits kinda wonky. Happy hunting 👍
You guys are playn with death, at 26:37 u never ever get under a car or in a wheel well WITHOUT supporting your vehicle, should it fall down suddenly your dead, Ive seen people use these type of jacks all the time and needless to say, countless times it happens, it falls to the ground, thank God the wheel was still on and others blocked it from falln, one of u guys shoulda put that tire he took off it, right under that body right where he was working, trying unfreeze that drum. Omg thank God it didn't fall, other than that, great video.👌
