That's what the 1963 model you see here has to offer: the looks of a third-gen Thunderbird, the bling of it being a Sports Roadster, and the rarity of the letter M in its VIN. Especially when the example is a rare one. My poison is of course the first gen, but the other two aren't shabby either, and my blood gets pumping when I come across representatives of gen two and three as well. But the first three generations, which cover the period from 1955 to 1963, surely were. It burned through a total of 11 generations and true, not all of them are the pinnacle of Ford's work. The Thunderbird was around for a long time, as it wasn't pulled from production for good until 2005. Introduced in 1955, it completely transformed what people thought of car design before the war, and would probably have no problem winning any beauty contest even today, in the age of hypercars. Of all the cars mentioned above and the many others I left out, the Ford Thunderbird is my personal favorite. And it's all because of the spell they still cast on us thanks to their design, their engineering, and what they meant for the world. ![]() Many of these cars are no longer around, but we still come across them almost on a daily basis. It is then that names like the Chevrolet Bel Air, Chevrolet Impala, Plymouth Barracuda, Chevrolet Chevelle, Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro, and many, many others were first used. Fueled like everything else by the euphoria of the war's end, and later on by a complete switch in ways of thinking, carmaking enjoyed its best times during these two decades. ![]() ![]() It's the 1950s and 1960s I'm talking about, two decades that will forever be listed in the industry's history books.
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