I’ve owned a couple ’78 D.J.s, and a ’79 also along with a ‘black/red interior ’78 with factory bucket seats, center console with automatic shifter on the floor and T-Tops. When employees called in sick for the day or days, I filled in for them so I know these cars better than most having built almost every part of them on the assembly line. I was a relief man and filled in on almost every post along the line.

I worked at the Chicago assembly plant building these cars in 1977-78. Have any of you owned a seventh-generation Thunderbird? service breaks and service transmission and put New dual exhaust this beautiful car runs beautiful you will not be disappointed”. also had the Air conditioning change to R134 that blow ice cold. The seller has done some work to get it running after apparently being in storage: “New parts to get her on back the road such as rebuilt 2 barrel carburetor. This car has the smallest engine that was available at the time, Ford’s 302 cubic-inch V8 which would have had an anemic 133 hp. The dash top looks like a car that has been stored indoors and even the speaker holes on top of the rear parcel shelf aren’t warped or ripped. The door gaskets looks nice and soft and not eroded or ripped like on a lot of older cars. The interior looks amazing on this car, I don’t really see a flaw in the interior anywhere. The next generation cars were really small. “The driver side door has a dent as well the driver side fender i do have trim.beside that the car is mint.” The seventh-generation Thunderbird had a fairly short run, from 1977 to 1979 right in the middle of Ford’s downsizing program. Here’s where the screeching brakes sound comes into the picture. The seller mentions that “there is no rot or rust any where the floors and trunk is Solid.” It looks fantastic so far. This car appears to be an amazing condition overall, especially the interior.

It can be found listed on eBay with a bid price of $3,100 but the reserve isn’t met.

This example has almost been stored more than it’s been driven and it’s located in Elkton, Maryland. My brother had a car similar to this 1979 Ford Thunderbird and what sticks in my mind the most is what a smooth, quiet ride it had.

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