The Thunderbird, also affectionately called the 'T-Bird', was introduced in 1955 in response to Corvette's own debut two years earlier, but not necessarily to compete directly with it. Instead, Ford's ...

The "Moon Rocket" is a once-famous award-winning Ford Thunderbird with loads of GM parts and a truly one-off design.

Shortly after the introduction of the first-gen Chevrolet Corvette in 1953, Ford decided it needed a rival to its likes. Thus, they set out to work, and one year later they launched the original ...

According to Ford Motor Company, the initial guidelines for the Thunderbird included that it would be a two-passenger, canvas-topped open car weighing 2,525 pounds, with an Interceptor V-8 engine and ...

A car sitting for 50 years is usually doomed to rot away beyond recognition, but that's not always the case. If stored properly, it can come back into the light as a solid survivor. This 1955 Ford ...

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Rick Steiner, 65, a retired engineer living in Tucson, Ariz., on his 1955 Ford Thunderbird, as told to A.J. Baime. My grandmother was a World War II Gold Star wife. What that means is, she was the ...

In the early 1950s, the American auto industry saw a clash of the titans, with General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler duking it out to gain market share among a middle class eager to enjoy some ...

A few years ago purists would have been aghast at what theythoughtVirginian John Reedy had done to an immaculate '55 Thunderbird. After all, these increasingly rare machines are considerably more ...