Thunderbird designs

[Treken]

Just wondering if anyone checked this site out before.

It is a Ford Mustang site called THE MUSTANG SOURCE but has a thread with guys designing new Thunderbirds.

http://forums.bradbarnett.net/showthread.php?t=474548

I love this idea from one of the posts.



Also like this picture of a Ford 49 concept car, which is a four seater.

[David III]

Re: Thunderbird designs

That concept car photo is fantastic. I really like that. Thanks for posting it.

[Treken]

Re: Thunderbird designs

That concept car photo is fantastic. I really like that. Thanks for posting it.

I like this concept bird as well. May be old news for some but just seen it for the first time on another site and thought I would post them.

I think it is called the 2003 Glass Roof concept.

[5bird7]

Re: Thunderbird designs

It was made by a company called Valmet Automotive in Finland

[kobrah]

Re: Thunderbird designs

WOW!

No port window, but hardtop to droptop? Where do i sign up?

Thanks for the post.

[FritsB]

Re: Thunderbird designs

Every now and then a press kit of the Valmet concept shows up on e-Bay. Mostly in Germany.

[5bird7]

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one off custom. Valmet no longer shows the design on their website but they do make them for other makes.

[Skip]

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I asked Nancy Gioia at the launch event in 2001 if a folding metal top was ever considfered for the retro Bird. She said it was, but the limitations were:

1) Cost
2) Weight (?).
3) Not able to get the design flow they were looking for if they had to figure out how to hide the top.
4) A porthole in the top was an absolute requisite. They could not do it with a folding top, as the Valmet concept indicates.

I like the wheels on the Valmet concept. Aren't these similiar to what is on your Inca Gold, Dot?

Skip

[FritsB]

Re: Thunderbird designs

one off custom.

Wonder where that is now?

[rmarshal]

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Mazda MX-5 PHRT can do it, why not the 'Bird?

http://www.mazdausa.com/MusaWeb/disp...ehicleCode=MX5

[Treken]

Re: Thunderbird designs

Mazda MX-5 PHRT can do it, why not the 'Bird

I almost bought a Miata beore I got my bird. Glad I did.

[5bird7]

Re: Thunderbird designs

Wonder where that is now?

possibly Ford has it? and reskinned it for their Lincoln Mark X concept from several years ago (not the one they show now)