![]() Its main tenets were elegant styling with room for two and an obvious lineage to the Ford gene pool, driving manners akin to those of a balanced touring car, limited production, and liberal plundering of the corporate parts bin. And yet Ford never hesitated to tamper with the original formula. ![]() ![]() The Thunderbird established itself by outselling its rival, the Chevrolet Corvette, by four to one in those first three heady years of 1955-57. Had they known about the welded-on roof, the fake landau bars, the faux-leather trunk straps, or the 5000-pound curb weight that lay in the car's future, things might have been different. In 1955, Ford planners winnowing down the list of proposed names for a certain forthcoming two-seater figured Cruisejet, Wheelaway, and Roadocrat didn't quite fit the image they were seeking to create.
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