The first-generation T-Bird didn’t just follow the sports car trend; it redefined it. Ford created something uniquely American when it launched the Thunderbird in 1955: a two-seat personal luxury ...

“I’d been looking for one for quite a while,” Glenn Still, of Laguna Hills, says of the 1956 Ford Thunderbird he bought five years ago as a work in progress. “I knew a fella who had started a ...

Jim and Diane Hatcher weren't looking for another '56 Thunderbird. They already had one and were quite pleased with it, but when another strayed into their path, they just had to take a look at it. It ...

PALO ALTO — Ronald Leung thought he would never see his beloved 1956 Ford Thunderbird again after it was stolen from his auto-repair shop in 1976. But the 59-year-old car aficionado was reunited with ...

In 1955, Ford had difficulty naming this car. Among the 5,000 suggested names were Hep Cat, Beaver, Detroiter, Runabout, Arcturus, Savile, El Tigre and Coronado. One serious suggestion was Whizzer.

Marilyn Monroe’s Thunderbird is coming up for auction in November, alongside many other celebrity vehicles as part of Julien’s Auctions Icons & Idols: Hollywood. The first generation of the ...

NARRAGANSETT — Donald Spears has a very old friend in his black 1956 Ford Thunderbird with red interior. After all, he bought it in 1957. “The original owner wasn’t comfortable; he was too tall,” said ...

Kris Jenner sold her Fiesta Red 1956 Ford Thunderbird at auction for $49,500. The convertible hardtop was received as a Christmas gift by the businesswoman who gained notoriety as the matriarch of the ...

Here's a story about a daughter giving daddy his Thunderbird back. Half a century ago, high-school sweethearts Clyde and Betty Jackson, of Edgefield, S.C., took it on their honeymoon to Daytona Beach, ...