Word: thunderbirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FORD'S CONTINENTAL is slowing after the first rush to buy. After starting out at 20 cars a day, production is down to six cars daily. But Ford's Thunderbird whizzes merrily on, with first-quarter sales up 7%, and forecasts for 20,000 cars in 1956 v. 17,000 last year...
When the U.S. DC-6 bearing Secretary of State John Foster Dulles appeared over Don Muang Airport one afternoon last week, Thailand's Prime Minister Pibulsonggram was still fretfully edging his way through Bangkok traffic in his Ford Thunderbird. Informed by the airport tower, the pilot of the Dulles plane circled for seven minutes until the Prime Minister thundered onto the field. Bangkok was a courtesy call for Dulles: there were no critical problems to be ironed out. After he departed the next day (Pibulsonggram and the Thunderbird were late for the goodbye) only three of the eight Thai...
...Harvard undergraduate has won a green Ford Thunderbird sportscar and a 21-inch R.C.A. Deluxe color television set by taking one of the ten top prizes in the Viceroy filter-tip naming contest. The prizewinner, Dan H. Hinz, '56 of Lowell House, said that he would probably keep neither...
...sportscar will be presented to Hinz next Monday, although Hinz has not yet learned where the presentation will take place. He said that he would probably sell the Thunderbird to help cover his business school expenses next fall. Hinz hopes...
Chevrolet this week brought out a new model of its Corvette in an attempt to overtake Ford's Thunderbird, which outdistanced all competitors with 16,000 units in 1955. The 1956 Corvette still sports a plastic body, but boosted horsepower 15% to 225 h.p. Optional: a power-operated top and a floor-mounted manual shift (instead of Powerglide...