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 ...

The first Ford Thunderbird, a 1955 model, comes off the production line at Ford Motor Co.'s Dearborn, Mich., assembly plant on Sept. 9, 1954. It was the creation of two men: Louis D. Crusoe, general ...

Phil Hoon, 65, an attorney from Chestertown, Md., on his 1955 Ford Thunderbird, as told to A.J. Baime. In 1954, Ford Motor Company debuted the Thunderbird as a 1955 model. My grandfather was a Ford ...

The Thunderbird adventure was started by Ford in February 1954 when this model got to see the daylight at the Detroit Auto Show. The production eventually started in September the same year, with the ...

The first-generation Ford Thunderbird was born in February 1954 when the car smiled for the first time in front of the public at the Detroit Auto Show. A few months later, in September the same year, ...

Ford Motor Co. will end production of the Thunderbird in July, and put the nameplate back on hiatus after a five-year run. Since the Thunderbird was relaunched in 2001, Ford sold 54,360 units through ...