1910 Texas Bullshit Spreader

This custom hotrod was a gift from Bob Hope to John Wayne.

Texas Bullshit Spreader

Style, power, and comfort: Put them together in an automobile and it’s sure to be a winner. That’s the combination that worked so well for the 1955 Ford Thunderbird convertible. The Thunderbird (“T-Bird”), is an automobile manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in the United States over eleven model generations from 1955 through 2005. When introduced, it created the market niche eventually known as the personal luxury car.

Design & Styling

1955 Ford Thunderbird

The Ford Thunderbird began life in February 1953 in direct response to Chevrolet’s new sports car, the Corvette, which was publicly unveiled in prototype form just a month before. Under rapid development, the Thunderbird went from idea to prototype in about a year, being unveiled to the public at the Detroit Auto Show on February 20, 1954. Like the Corvette, the Thunderbird had a two-seat coupe/convertible layout. Production of the Thunderbird began later on in 1954 on September 9 with the car beginning sales as a 1955 model on October 22, 1954. The introductory T-Bird had style in spades, owing to its low, two-seat bodywork. The Thunderbird managed to avoid being cluttered with excessive chrome trim or outlandish two-tone paint schemes.

The engine was designed by Walter Becchia and Lucien Gerard,[2] with a nod to the classic “boxer” BMW motorcycle engine (it is reported that Becchia dismantled the engine of the BMW motorcycle of Flaminio Bertoni before designing the 2CV engine). It was an air-cooled, flat-twin, four-stroke, 375 cc engine with pushrod operated overhead valves and a hemispherical combustion chamber. The 2CV used the wasted spark ignition system for both simplicity and reliability and had only speed-controlled ignition timing, no vacuum advance taking account of engine load. These design features made the 2CV engine highly reliable; test engines were run at full speed for 1000 hours at a time, equivalent to driving 80,000 km (50,000 mi) at full throttle.

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Technical Specs

Technical Specifications

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  • Year:
    1965

  • Color:
    Mint Green

  • Engine
    ???-liter

  • Type:
    1955 Ford Thunderbird

  • 0-60 mph:
    40 mph

  • Top Speed:
    63 mph

  • Transmission
    4 Speed

  • Body/Chassis
    dual H-frame platform

Cool Facts

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