Word: thunderbirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cadillac). Once major mechanical improvements were the exclusive property of more expensive autos, e.g., Oldsmobile's automatic shift; now lower-priced models have all of them. Among the lower-priced cars, it is the highest-priced models that are doing best. Ford sales are down, but its Thunderbird and Fairlane are selling best-to many people who a few years ago would have bought a middle-priced car. Sales of Chevrolet are neck-and-neck with 1957, with the biggest sellers its most expensive models, including the Impala...
...THUNDERBIRD SOFT TOP that will fold back into trunk like Ford's automatically retractable hardtop, will be put out by Ford this spring. Unlike hardtop convertible, new four-seater Thunderbird wi'l be only semiautomatic, require driver to lower trunk himself...
...Francisco's Ken Venturi tucked away the $15,000 Thunderbird Invitational golf tournament in easy fashion at Palm Beach yesterday, shooting his fourth sub-par round and turning back fourth sub-par round...
...chased her about a mile, finally slowed down as his speedometer indicated 100 m.p.h. Just then he saw the Chevrolet start to weave back and forth across the three southbound lanes of the parkway. On one wild weave to the right it smashed into the rear of a Thunderbird convertible hugging the curbside, shattered it. The Thunderbird's driver, 47-year-old Richard Sperling, a Connecticut laundry manager and father of two, died instantly. The Chevrolet swerved onto a shoulder, rolled over four times. Christine was only dazed when she was dragged out. She stayed overnight in a Bronx...
...black Thunderbird rolled off a Ford plant assembly line, a worker affectionately scrawled in soap on the hood: "Bye, bye, baby." It signaled the end of the two-seater T-bird; this week Ford put out the car's 1958 successor, the ballyhooed four-seater. Ford's affection for the T-bird sprang from its surprising success. Ford expected to lose some $10 million on the car but make it up in added prestige for standard Fords. Instead, it sold twice as well as expected (53,166 produced in all), and made a profit to boot. The sleek...