How many 1955 thunderbirds were made

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You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. How many Green Tbirds have been produced? ET55 Click here to upgrade. Joined Jul 18, Thunderbird Year Hi All, We have a green Tbird, does anyone know how many of them the green ones where produced in total? TX a lot Eric. Joined Jun 28, Thunderbird Year I'm not sure if anyone knows exactly. I cannot get the information for my bird because it was one of the destroyed records.

The only sheet I have is a sampling from a few different build dates in and gives percentages from those days. I don't feel it is an accurate, true representation of ALL cars from The new T-Bird used a good number of regular Ford parts to hold costs down. They included headlights, taillights and instruments.

The parts sharing also let Ford successfully use the 2,pound Thunderbird to rub off some of its sporty, glamorous image on the restyled regular Fords. The new Thunderbird was better for 99 percent of the U. It could be had with options including power steering, brakes, windows and a power front bench seat designed to look like two bucket seats.

Only two adults actually fit, so the T-Bird always has been described as a two-seater. The new Thunderbird came with a standard removable hard top or optional, snug power soft top--or both. It even was offered with a push-button radio. By , you could get a T-Bird with automatic windshield washers, a Dial-O-Matic power seat with fore-aft, up-down memory and a radio with volume that rose as engine speed increased.

The cubic-inch engine generated horsepower with a three-speed manual transmission and with the Ford-O-Matic three-speed automatic transmission. Now this was an engine Americans could appreciate. Most didn't know or care that the T-Bird V-8 wasn't as good as the sensational new Chevy V-8, but it was potent enough to give the T-Bird good performance.

And it handled better than the average car. A privately entered model beat rival foreign cars in the production sports car class at the Daytona Speed Weeks in , hitting But speed wasn't what the new T-Bird was all about. Rather, it was essentially a stylish, luxurious, upper-middle-class cruiser--a car perfect to give your girlfriend, wife or mistress for in-town showing off. By today's standards, the s Thunderbird two-seater had an offbeat driving position, with occupants sitting low and a big steering wheel set close to a driver's chest.

There also was a bad blind spot with the hardtop in place, which is why:"porthole" circular rear side windows were put in that top in and The model had a "continental" spare tire put outside in a rear metal case because it occupied too much trunk space. The spare not only greatly improved trunk room, it also shifted weight slightly to the rear and slightly improved the car's good balance.

The Corvette made do with an old, slightly modified Chevy six-cylinder until , when Chevy's new V-8 arrived. Public orders totaled more than 3, within the first day selling period, while planned volume for the model year was only 10, units. Ford sold a first year total of 16, Thunderbirds. The model had a removable hardtop with a inch wheelbase chassis that was Curb weight was pounds.

The engine was a Mercury cubic inch V-8, exclusive to the Thunderbird line, which had horsepower with the automatic and horsepower with the manual transmission. The first Thunderbird came off the Dearborn assembly line September 9, and had at least 4, orders waiting on the first day of production.

Over 16, units of the Thunderbird were ultimately sold. All cars had vinyl upholstery matching the exterior paint color. The Thunderbird was very similar to the model with some notable exceptions.

Portholes were now being offered as an option with the hardtop, a move designed to increase driver visibility, but that went on to become one of the more distinctive features of the Thunderbird. Other design changes included the relocation of the spare tire from the trunk to the exterior of the car right above the newly extended bumper.

Standard equipment included energy-absorbing passenger-side instrument panel padding, a concave safety steering wheel, safety door latches and a shatter-resistant mirror. Seatbelts were optional. The Thunderbird included a restyled front grille, rear deck and new bumpers.

It was the first to have a fully padded dash surface. There was also the Dial-O-Matic power seat which provided a memory setting.