What often occurs is that an inexperienced technician will scratch, dent or drop your wheel, causing harm to it. Most tire shops do not have proper, modern installation equipment or experience to do the job right. ▪ Ease of installation: Sadly, there are too few tire shops capable of mounting and properly balancing wire wheels and classic, whitewall tires.
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▪ Best value: when you add up the cost of purchasing wheels, tires, inner-tubes (if needed), professional mounting and balancing, valve stems, special German no-lead stick-on weights and the value of your time, you cannot beat purchasing your new wheels with tires as a package from us. Why buy a Thunderbird wire wheel and tire package? Precision mounting and balancing by the wire wheel experts. Radial tires may NOT fit in Continental Kits. The American Classic tires are speed-rated, all-season and have an estimated tread life of 45,000 miles.
by a tire manufacturer in busines s since 1915. Please call us for tire prices on any of these optional tires.Īmerican Classic whitewall tires are made in the U.S.A. We are proud to offer Firestone, BF Goodrich, Coker and Goodyear bias-ply tires. Please contact us for pricing.) You may also order at extra cost, BF Goodrich, Coker, and Goodyear steel belted radials. (*Bias-Look American Classic tires are available at extra cost. Our packages come with American Classic or other brands of steel b elted radial tires. Red, black, blue, or plain chrome.įour wide whitewall tires. Includes, four 3-bladed spinner style, center caps with your choice of color center logos. Included are the following items and services in our Thunderbird wire wheel and tire packages: Being optimistic, I’m thinking this might work out to be a presentable car once cleaned up and gotten going again.Price: $1,200.00 each or $4,800.00 for the set of four. A Concours quality T-Bird from 1961-63 could fetch close to $30,000, with a fixer-upper like this one being closer to $5,000. It’s hard to make a call about the interior because the car was photographed inside the barn and there isn’t much light there. But we don’t have much in the way of photos to tell us just how much of it may be involved. The body might clean up nicely as it looks pretty straight, to begin with and the only rust the seller mentions is in the floor pans. There is no mention of air conditioning being there. It’s a well-equipped Bird, with automatic transmission, cruise control, power steering, and probably not the snappy tilt steering wheel. The car is said to have 137,000 miles on it, so a rebuild is probably in the cards anyway. We don’t know if it’s the 2-barrel carb version at 265 hp or the 4-barrel at 320. We’re told the 390 cubic inch engine is stuck, which was the only engine choice for the Thunderbird in ’61. This 1961 T-Bird looks to have been dormant for quite some time if the amount of dust, dirt, and grime on it are any indication. The source for background info was Automotive Mile Posts. While sales were surprisingly off slightly from the prior year, Ford sold 73,000 Thunderbirds for 1961, with 85% of them being coupes like the seller’s car. The ’61 T-Bird quickly gained celebrity status by serving in the inauguration parade for President Kennedy (Ford executive Robert McNamara was Kennedy’s new Secretary of State) and appearing as the pace car for the 1961 Indianapolis 500 (both used T-Bird convertibles). Another goodie was its “floating” rearview mirror which was mounted to the windshield glass instead of at the top of the windshield. With the transmission in Park, the steering wheel would slide some 18 inches to the right.
One of the most creative options on these cars was the highly touted ‘Swing Away’ steering wheel which provided easier access to the driver’s seat. One of the advertising slogans for the third generation T-Birds was “Unmistakably New, Unmistakably Thunderbird” and that’s not likely an overstatement.
The car is in Morristown, Minnesota and available here on Facebook Marketplace for $2,700. This 1961 coupe looks to have been inhabiting a barn for quite some time, but there are some rusty floors and a stuck motor to be dealt with. It featured sleeker, less boxy styling than its 1958-60 predecessors and could arguably be considered the best-looking of the T-Birds, except for maybe the original 2-seaters. After a successful three-year run as a personal luxury car with a back seat, the Ford Thunderbird was redesigned again for 1961.
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