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SIA Flashback – Two Kinds of Personal Luxury: Riviera and Thunderbird for 1963

Written by webmin

In the personal luxury category, there are no two heavier heavyweights than the four-seater Thunderbird and the Buick Riviera, so it would stand to reason that a comparison between the two is inevitable. Josiah Work took on that task for SIA #94, August 1986, choosing to pit the 1963 versions of each against each other. […]

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Tagged buick, Buick Riviera, comparos, ford, Ford Thunderbird, Hemmings Classic Car, personal luxury, SIA Flashback  
 

Four-Links – the cars of Tintin, beach cars, dream garages, 1962 slot car champ Henry Harnish

Written by webmin

* Dr. Hypercube (via BibliOdyssey) shot this one over to us: François de Dardel has gone through a number of Tintin volumes, picked out the cars and trucks shown in them, and tried his hand at identifying them all. For a comic style, Hergé sure seemed intent on reproducing vehicles fairly accurately. * Thought the […]

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Tagged automobilia, beach cars, comic book, Fiat Jolly, Ford Thunderbird, garages, Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, Henry Harnish, March Military Campaign, military vehicles, MKZT, racing, slot car racing, Stirling Moss, Tintin, Traumgaragen  
 

T-Bird Leads the Flock at Mecum Kansas City

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The top sale from Mecum’s Kansas City Auction last weekend was this 1957 F-code Thunderbird, one of between 208 and 211 T-Birds built in 1957 with a McCulloch VR57 Phase II supercharger. The car, which sold for $186,000, was restored by Hill’s Automotive of Racine, Ohio, and has won honors from the Classic Thunderbird Club […]

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Tagged auctions, F-code Thunderbird, ford, Ford Thunderbird, Hemmings Daily, Hemmings Muscle Machines, Mecum, Mecum Kansas City  
 

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