American Graffiti

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT ^ | August 5, 2002 | Lisa Stein

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You are welcome!
Lots of work, all screen captures cropped and sized.
Still want to paint out all ‘framing’ solid black.

I had to be sneaky to put the cursor next to each picture to get the ‘lights on’ screen capture, lol. [mouse overs!]

Your white T-bird is really pretty.

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A few mods and it could be a Baby Mark II Continental - Change to squared-off headlight bezels instead of T-Bird hooded bezels, fill in the porthole in the top, do some simple reshaping/smoothing bodywork on the front and rear fenders, mold a continental spare tire shape into the trunk like the Mk II -

I recall seeing a mid 50s T-Bird at custom car and hot rod show in Davie Florida that was perfectly customized into a Baby 2-seater Caddy roadster -

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I wish my MarkII WAS a T-bird. The MarkII never really excited me, lol. Pretty but huge.

You can [naturally] use any and all of those gifs as you like, they are in C-gifs right now. 419w X 301h

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T-Birds and ‘Vettes were pretty tight on space - A Healey or Triumph actually had easier access for storage behind the seats -

I can imagine trying to squeeze a big load of groceries in a T-Bird trunk -

The big mistake that Ford made was upsizing the T-Bird to a 5-passenger in ‘58

Tring to design and sell a bigger T-Bird while the Mk II was still in production and dropping competing with Corvettes was not smart

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I like small sporty cars though. In a book I have on MarkII’s, they said only 300 or 400 were made in ‘57. I’m not as familiar as you on the history of the T-Birds but to me they typify the 1950’s.

When the kids were young and my car was in the shop, I once had to use a plain ol’ Toyota to drive them hundreds of miles to camp. I actually liked the maneuverability of the small car.

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Thank you.....

AMERICAN PIE

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LOL!

Excellent potlatch

I’m having trouble accessing FR properly

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A little grafitti.