6Y85Q126766 - Thunderbird Registry Number 1646
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1646
6Y85Q126766
1966
76A - B - 28 - 09M - 63 - 1- 4
Brian Meister says:This 1966 Thunderbird Convertible was in Pope, Mississippi in November of 2002. I saw it on eBay in November and drove down to look at it when it did not meet reserve. The seller and I struck a purchase/storage bargain and I brought it back up north the following June. The car currently resides in my father's pole barn in Delaware, Ohio.
The story related to me by the seller is that he bought the car from the original owner in Memphis around 1969 or 1970. He was a car guy and a restorer who also owned a '57 T-Bird at the time. He used it as one of his pleasure cars until one summer day when he lost oil pressure and blew the motor. He had it towed home and parked it near his shop in a barn next to a '56 Bentley until he could find time to work on it. That was 1975. The following year he had the concrete driveway to his shop extended to better serve his expanding restoration business. The new concrete pad blocked access to the large barn doors effectively sealing both cars in a time capsule. Both cars stayed in the barn until his divorce in 2000 when his wife claimed the Bentley as her own. The barn doors were cut off and shortened to permit access to the cars. Here are a couple of pictures of the car as it sits in 2004. I have done nothing more than clean it up a bit. It has a thorough but cheesy bronze repaint over the original beige metallic. The interior was filthy but basically complete and showing normal wear for a car with 60,000 original miles. The reason I bought the car, though, is because of its straight, solid body. No rust. No damage. Ever. There is some surface rust around the package tray from where the barn's roof leaked onto the car, but the rest of the body is incredible. I have a running 428 with C6 trans to put in place of the blown motor. The car will then need tires, brakes and exhaust to become a decent driver. Once some other projects are complete, this is the car I plan on restoring to concours perfection. ============== As of November, 2002 this Thunderbird was in Pope, Mississippi.
Brian Meister
11/3/2002
428 V-8
Intact
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