J9YJ158023 - Thunderbird Registry Number 33737
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33737
J9YJ158023
1959
76A - U - 5Y - 13G - 4 - 1
Thomas Pfaff says: I saw this Thunderbird on eBay 3 years ago and pretty much site unseen except for a few pictures. Always wanting a convertible I bid on it and got it.
<p> It came with a lot of extra of parts for other cars. The guy that had it was a collector and had Thunderbirds of different years and retractable hard top Fords he was a member of the Vintage Thunderbird Club The Squarebird Society . He passed away and his wife gave one car to each child and sold the rest. The one I got belonged to her son that was in the service so it was put in a storage unit . He wanted to sell it after a long time in there and his mother said it ran when it was put in there, but not true I guess because the carb was gone and may have had other problems. I took the heads off and found the engine was seized up ,so when I found out nothing was going to work without taking the engine and transmission and rebuilding them . Engine, heads, intake all had BF9……. numbers cast on them so I take it is the right engine for the car if not the original one that came with it new don’t know. I had to go threw all must everything on this car each bolt, nut, parts a lot of blood, sweat and did I say blood. The color when I got it was blue outside with black interior under that paint was yellow and under that was Cordovan and then Cordovan again, with primer between coats on paint. <p>The interior I cleaned and sprayed it with Sems vinyl dye to match the color of the trim code, but made seats all white. I know the seats, door panels, and paint are not original, but maybe down the line I will change them sometime. Also I put different hub caps on it that I liked so it is not modified or customized that much. Hard work and don’t want to do it again, but it does look nice. I still have the vinyl top to install on it and few other little things to do.
Thomas Pfaff
11/9/2009
430 V-8
Intact
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