

Dues paying members receive the monthly newsletter which keeps members informed of club activities. Activities have included picnics, tech sessions, road trips and cruise-ins.ĭues for the club are $35 per year. During the spring and summer months, numerous events are scheduled with the express purposed to encourage members to show and drive their cars. We are dedicated to the preservation of the Ford Thunderbird and uniting the owners of these automobiles. Our meetings are generally the second Sunday of the month during the off season (November through March). Welcome to the Long Island Thunderbirds Car Club. It was really a lonely hobby because back then Ford owners didnt speak to. All you need is an appreciation for these early Birds and a willingness to participate in Club activities. There were no events for cars built after 1940 or so and nobody was collecting them. Our charter is to encourage the preservation of the Classic Thunderbirds built in the model years of 1955, 1956, & 1957 however you do not have to own one of these Classic Thunderbirds to be a club member. Our club is located in the Cleveland, Ohio area and we have members throughout Northern Ohio. Choose from a generous selection of Port Authority and Gildan wearables. We are in CTCI Region #2 and are Chapter #2, the second club to have registered with CTCI. We had Thunderbirds, other show cars and people who parked their cars and walked in. Custom apparel featuring the 2023 Convention logo. We are the Classic Thunderbird Club of Northern Ohio. Grab those Raybans from the cupboard and come for a drive and let the V8 of this beautiful bird roar as it should.Classic Thunderbird Club of Northern Ohio Our charter is to encourage the preservation of the Classic Thunderbirds built in the model years of 1955. We are in CTCI Region 2 and are Chapter 2, the second club to have registered with CTCI. You can see that, the meters in the car drag you right back into the sixties. We are the Classic Thunderbird Club of Northern Ohio. In those days it was fashionable to leave a ‘jet-like’ feeling in the interior in all kinds of ways. We are proud to unite all admirers and owners of Classic Thunderbirds who are interested in restoring and maintaining their.
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Host hotel, DoubleTree Detroit/Dearborn, (313) 336-3340 discount rate 139 includes full breakfast buffet. Many fun venues in the area including rides on the 1928 Ford Tri-Motor plane. All T-Bird Show, Ford World Headquarters, Saturday, August 26, 2023. When you drive around in this car you feel like a sixties god. Ford World Headquarters, Dearborn, MI, August 22-27, 2023. Looks like Elvis, but sounds and closes like a Swiss safe. That’s why he restored the car nut and bolt, and he hasn’t driven the car much since. The car comes from a collector who wanted to take care of all his babies as best he could, so that no one is coming short. The bodywork of this Thunderbird and the colour come in like a thunderbird when the sky is clear, and the interior is like new. In the year that the Thunderbird came out, sales increased by more than 50%! Ford came up with the idea to spell ‘Thunderbird’ in full over the bonnet, and that was successful. Overly exuberant lines of the fifties, were replaced by tighter long lines of the sixties. In October 1955 the first Ford Thunderbird rolled off the assembly line and was presented to the club. It was in 1965, when the Thunderbirds with blue suits first appeared on TV, that Ford was already there with the fourth generation Thunderbird (this time also with blue suit) the Flair Bird. Clubs permission to name the car The Thunderbird.

On the day this Ford was born, a lot happened on the other side of the ocean: Martin Luther King told about his dreams, musical legends came up and American car companies had ‘the horsepower race’.
