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1963 T-Bird! Mine was a Landau Coupe in bubblegum pink. My first car. A neighbor told me if I could start it I could have it. I put in a new battery and started it, and he signed the title over.
Between 5 and 9 miles to the gallon, depending. And this was during the “first” energy crisis. Had to love that 390 though and the steering wheel that slid out of the way.
Then there was the cracked block, and it became a driveway ornament. Until my parents threatened to cut the roof off and turn it into a planter.
Ironically, the first and last American brand car I ever owned.
Happy 4th!
Now THAT’S a picture!
God Bless America, and everybody have a safe weekend.
That beautiful T’bird belongs to the Anthonys of Boston and Wellfleet Mass. Photo taken in Wellfleet July 4 2008 at the annual parade of classics. Those are their grandchildren.
Happy Independence Day, everyone. Try not to take our great country for granted.
And thanks, ZoomZoom!
My cigarbird was a 61 hardtop. Red, just like in the picture (after the previous owner changed it from white. Before I sold it, it was back to a white car with red interior). Much like findude, I got it cheap with the idea that I would restore it. It needed virtually everything done to it and I ran out of patience, money and time. But if it had been a convertible, I would probably have it yet. Findude is right – 390s are awesome.
And it was a perfect car for the 4th of July – Red interior, White car, and it made me say a lot of words that were Blue.
Happy 4th of July to you too, TTAC. Thanks for the articles and the continued freedom to post here.
Yes,
Great picture and Happy America’s Birthday to all.
Celebrate well, by next year at this time we may well be at a funeral, if we can afford to have one. .
This Canadian loves you America, and I’m not just saying that because it’s ok to again. :)
Tomorrow morning I’ll be showing the flag in my Studebaker as a participant in an Independence Day parade. Actually, because 2009 marks fifty years since the introduction of the Lark, I will be observing two anniversaries.
May God bless America. Truly, through pain and struggle but with Annuit Coeptis there became a Novus Ordo Seclorum. It’s a day to ignore the naysayers.
Thanks, 86er. We’re glad to have such great neighbors.
Yes, Happy 4th of July to you guys. I’ve travelled extensively in the US and spent some time there on a working visa. Americans have always been very good to me.
BTW, the Mars Rovers are still the most incredible feat ever achieved by man…if you guys can do that you can do anything. Get to it.
The wisdom of our fathers…
George Washington:
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Thomas Jefferson:
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
If God is just, I tremble for my country.
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Warts and all, ours is still the greatest nation on Earth! May God continue to bless her…and may God hold close those that selfishly step forward to serve and protect her. Thank you to all active duty, retired, Guard and Reserve that have (or will, in the case of my son who just entered the Air Force Academy…look out Capt. Mike!) worn the uniform in defense of our nation.
Now I think I’ll go test drive a Camaro!!
Magnificent! It’s one of the reasons why we can have mediums like TTAC; celebrate our first amendment right!
Everyone be safe!
God Bless America. Happy 4th of July.
Have fun, eat a lot of food, and be safe w/ those fireworks! Happy 4th!!
Thank gawd for the Fourth of July where we can see the pride of our American car industry in those glorious parades.
Have a great 4th of July folks. We to are blessed to have you as neighbors and friends.
MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA
Happy independence day. Mine was really May 4 (RI). So lets celebrate in spirit, that’s what matters most imo. Independence spiritually for everyone. God blessed everyone of us. Enjoy our respective adventures and love.
Photo taken in Wellfleet July 4 2008 at the annual parade of classics.
Great photo David! I’m headed up to Wellfleet on the 4th. Hopefully I’ll get there early enough to see the parade. I’ll try to get some pictures.
Happy Fourth everyone. Enjoy and be careful.
Great photo David. That is what it is all about.
Happy birthday America!
Great picture! Happy birthday y’all!
So sad this may be the last 4th of July the big 3 get to spend together.
At any rate, Happy 4th every one.
President Obama of Government Motors honors us peons with a day of celebration. My caddy purrs in rejoice!
Happy 4th.
Happy 4th of July to TTAC writers, staff, and B&B!
God Bless America and, indeed, the rest of the world as well!
Happy 4th to all!
May what our founding fathers risked their lives for bring you happiness and prosperity!
Buy the way…Americans never claimed to make the BEST cars,just the Coolest!!
Find me a designer in ANY country who could have done a better tail light lens than whats on that 61 Bird!!!
Ha..HA…!
go U.S.A.
Happy 4th of July to you lot! I’m currently in the United States so I hope you put a good show on for me! :O)
In reference to good American cars, I always had a soft spot for the Ford GT40 (let’s see if anyone can spot the joke there!).
P.S. Back home the 4th of July is known as “The liberation of the UK”. The day we finally got rid of you lot! ;O)
God bless that great nation, the USA, and its wonderful people.
What’s all this 4th July business about anyway? :)
I think it’s a warm-up for liberty’s big day on the fourteenth.
Bon anniversaire, les ricains!
Katie,
Could your soft-spot derive from the fact that just as the is a descendent of the UK, the GT40 is descended from Eric Broadley’s Lola, and the action bringing that wagon to excellence were, like, throughout much of the 20th Century, were due to a collaboration marrying British inspiration (Churchill, Broadley/Wyer, FAV) with American muscle (US military/industrial might, Lunn, Ford-427) to make history?
The UK-US “Special Relationship” has many meanings and has served mankind well…
Hope everyone had a happy 4th … (and thanks to Ford Motor and BofA for sponsoring the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Fireworks at The Henry Ford/Greenfield Village’s 4th of July concert … 7,000 people sitting on the lawn, in perfect weather conditions (72°, low humidity, still air) celebrating Detroit, Americana, Democracy, in peace and harmony … it was, so pleasant as to pass into the etherial category!
Bon 14 Juillet a vous, Pista! Et n’oubliez pas de regarder mon revu sur le Deux Chevaux!
And thanks everyone for your complements to my photo! It’s a real honor to have my photo used as a special Independence Day photo.