![]() ![]() ![]() I painted it red with black interior, a rather lumpy paint job if I recall, but I thought it looked great. I wasn’t going try spray painting again, that was too risky, so I decided to paint it the best way I knew how: with a small model brush. She agreed to pay the $1.98 for the replacement model kit (I must have begged, cried, or something) and we came out with a ’63 Ford Thunderbird Sports Roadster kit. It definitely was not suitable to enter into a model car contest. Well, things didn’t work out very well with the spray paint and I ended up making a mess out of the Fairlane. I wanted to paint it candy apple red over a gold base coat, so we got the spray paint and I was left to my own devices. Using my allowance that I saved up, I purchased an AMT ‘63 Ford Fairlane kit as my entry. My mom, being the supportive stay-at-home mother that she was, took me (and dragged my two sisters) to the store. Part of the requirements of the contest is that you had to buy your model kit at the store and enter it at the time of purchase. The Sprouse-Reitz Five and Dime store in the local shopping center was having a model car contest and I really wanted to enter. I was 8 years old and had been building model cars on my own for a little over a year. The total number of Sports Roadsters produced over the two model years was 1,882 making these cars rare and collectible today.įlashback to 1963. Just 455 1963 Sports Roadsters were produced. did a color survey of their registered cars in 2010 with the following results:įorty-seven percent of the total production of Sports Roadsters was represented, a substantial amount considering the age of the car! This color was exclusive in 1962 to the Thunderbird and the Lincoln Continental (as Platinum) and not available on any other Ford Motor Company product. I couldn’t find a production breakout by color, but the least popular color according to sources on the web was Diamond Blue with only a handful produced. Nearly all of the first 465 Sports Roadsters produced were built in this color combination with the exception of four, which all had red interiors. The most popular color combination was Rangoon Red with Black vinyl interior. Color choices were:Ĭorinthian White, Rangoon Red, Raven Black, Chestnut, Diamond Blue, Silver Mink, and Sandshell Beige. The Sports Roadster was initially available in 7 different colors, an eighth one was added in early 1962. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.Ford produced 1,427 Thunderbird Sports Roadsters in the 1962 model year. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap Only Engine 275hp R Code, 300hp Z Code or 340hp M Code 390 cu in V8s Standard for 1962 was the swing away steering wheel, power steering, power brakes, back up lights and bucket seats Two new models were available, The Landau Hardtop, with a vinyl roof and simulated S-bars on the rear pillars and also the 'Sports Roadster' with fibreglass tonneau over the rear seats to give it that 2 seater look. The 1962 model got a very mild facelift, a new grille with mesh look rather than the horizontal bars. The traditional glove-box was gone and a center-console glove-box took its place. The dashboard curved at both ends, blending into the door panels. ![]() With the top down and trunk lid lowered, there was no sight of the soft-top. On the convertible models, the trunk lid was still rear-hinged, which raised and lowered through hydraulic cylinders. Available as a Hardtop or Convertible, the Hardtop had softer roof lines than its 'Square Bird' predecessor. The third generation Thunderbirds were built from 1961-63, nicknamed the 'Bullet Bird', styling inspiration from rocket ships, with a pointed nose, recessed headlamps, twin round taillights shaped like a jet engine. Description 1962 Ford Thunderbird Hardtop (44771247515).jpg ![]()
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