The ClassicCars.com Journal has featured several videos from the Yours in previous FoMoCo iron… channel on YouTube. Adrian Clements is a Ford skilled extraordinaire and this video on the colours out there for the 1969 Ford Thunderbird needs to be of curiosity to all of us thinking about automobiles of the period.
The 1969 Ford Thunderbird was the final in a collection of three earlier than a restyle that will final via 1971. The most notable change from earlier years was the change from full-width taillights to pods on each ends of the tail panel. Lest we neglect, the Thunderbird was a personal-luxury automobile, so it typically featured choices that always got here off as being extra customized than your typical household automotive. While not a Lincoln, the Thunderbird could possibly be seen as Lincoln’s little brother regardless that the T-bird was a Blue Oval product.
So, it needs to be no shock that, out of 20 colours out there for the Thunderbird, 9 have been unique amongst Fords:
- Lilac Frost
- Diamond Green
- Midnight Aqua
- Midnight Orchid
- Diamond Blue
- Morning Gold
- Tahoe Turquoise
- Copper Flame
- Oxford Gray
If your blood runs Ford Blue, then you might acknowledge a number of colours that don’t actually really feel particular, and also you wouldn’t essentially be incorrect – for instance, Diamond Blue was out there on 1968 Fords, however it was unique to the 1969 Thunderbird.
If you have a look at a color chip page from 1969, you’ll be aware that these unique colours have been shared with Lincoln. That is smart as a result of each the Thunderbird and Lincolns have been constructed at Wixom, however the Thunderbird was additionally constructed at Los Angeles so we can’t depend on that truth alone.
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