Thunderbirds, don't get enough love.... 👆

Now that’s a car. Thanks Lou for featuring a FORD. Fairly amazing survivor.

Great car Kelly, super clean. These birds are fantastic riding cars with unparalleled styling and features.

The height of fairly affordable personal luxury back in the day and it GOES LIKE HELL. Well done FORD. Thanks Lou.

That's a true classic! Brings back memories of my neighbor's 1969 Thunderbird, but theirs had the suicide 4 doors. It was white with a black vinyl Landau top. This 2 door is a sporty model with that copper paint job. Healthy sounding 429. These are cars you rarely see on the road today. Cars had so much more class back in 1969.

I love the T-birds and Mr. Castle's latest has all you need for comfort and class. Thanks, Lou!

Thank you for sharing this awesome car story. I had a 1970 Thunderbird which was given to me by my uncle. Of all the cars I owned this was by far my favorite. It was so futuristic for its time and had plenty of power on up hills. I wish I never sold it. Thanks for the memories.

My father had a burgundy 4 door T-bird (with suicide doors)... it was such a futuristic / concept car looking machine with its giant "jet intake" grille (with hideaway headlights)... and those rear "full bar" sequential taillights. What a gloriously "Jetsons" ride. Wish we still had it, sure stands out today as a shining example of Ford concept car luxury !

Great car ! Had a 1969 4 door Thunderbird . Bought it in 1997 . Had 38,000 miles on it . Burnt orange and white vinyl top . Had every option except door locks and all worked . Never a winter driven car and no rust or pitting on all the chrome and white metal trim . Had same wheel covers as yours . Classy car. Wish I would have kept it .

There was a time when the Thunderbird was something special. Gorgeous car and interesting background

Gotta love the way the headlights open one at a time ~ I'm starting to love this beast! Thanks Lou

This Thunderbird is certainly a rare treat and you gotta love the clean 429 - nice. Thanks guys 👍

Great car, great colour, and the owner did a spectacular job with the engine and a/c. Runs really quiet with no valve tick. There were actually three body styles in this generation. In addition to the 2 door landau and the 4 door pillared sedan, there was a 2 door hardtop with smallish rear windows. Interesting design that is rarely seen on the roads these days.

Great Thunderbird! This is almost the forgotten generation to me - you do not see them very often, that is for sure. This is a great example and beautifully presented. Thanks Lou!

Integrating the A/C into this car took some great skill. Really nice work. The only T-Bird I recall like this was a '67 Landau owned by one of my aunt's friends. He drove it a long time and it was always unique looking. He was an artist and an antique collector and he appreciated the lines of the car, I'm sure. Thanks for showing us this car inside and out. I remember seeing only a handful of these cars back in the 1970s. Thank you Kelly for keeping it original.

I used to not like the look of that era T-Bird (still not a 4 door fan), but I can appreciate what they were trying to do. I really like that color! Thanks for sharing, Lou!

¡Qué elegante se veía este Ford Thunderbird 1969 con ese color cobrizo y su techo de estilo Landau! Me llamó la atención que tenía muchos logos “Thunderbirds” repartidos por todas partes (como hasta en las pequeñas guías, e incluso, en los respiraderos de aire del tablero). Además, goza de características muy interesantes, como el volante abatible automático para facilitar la entrada y salida de su conductor, o el botón para abrir desde adentro el maletero. Por último, felicitarte por las tomas y el momento en que grabaste el video; ya que los rayos solares iluminaban llamativamente su interior (como el hermoso panel de instrumentos en madera) y el recorrido final. ¡Saludos cordiales, Lou!

Hi Lou, a great looking thunderbird,very nice.👍👍👍👍

This is back when automotive designers cared enough to create real, pieces of automotive artwork that never were forgotten

That is one heck of a nice Thunderbird! I had a '71 Thunderbird myself, and I loved it! Thanks, Lou! This is yet another great video that made my day!!

Big Lou glad to see you going your thing as always great content keep on doing you big guy

Always liked Thunderbirds. Very few people had them in our area. Don’t think I ever rode in one. But always admired them.

I'm a GM guy but I have to say that I love that model T-Bird. Beautiful car!

These were GREAT Fords ! I could have bought one in Medium Blue Metallic in 1976 for 700 bucks ! It was perfect with only 48000 miles ! My buddies mad fun of me saying it was a Grandpa Car ... Still kicking myself... Ouch ! Thanks for posting Lou !

Fantastic! Love the old birds. Thanks for posting. 👍

WOW, that's a Fantastic Bird , a True Keeper and the V8. True Classic .......

Another classic Lou. Great job

Had a 1966 in T-Bird in high school. The backseat was heaven.

Hi, Lou! I just had to check this one out because this is definitely a car you don't see every day. Even T-Bird fans don't seem to give a lot of attention to this 1967-1971 generation, which was the only generation that included a four-door, which would be especially refreshing to see. Kelly sure picked a great one here in that copper shade, and the big sail panel and wraparound rear seat really give it an air of exclusivity. It's great that Kelly is keeping this as original as possible. I think most of us want to see these cars as we remember them. Many thanks to both of you for taking us all on this rare Bird flight!

Lou, what a great video! This one was a bit longer and more detailed, and as usual it really got me interested in a car that I never gave a second thought to. I never realized how cool of a car the '67-'69 T-Birds were. Even the 4-doors with the suicide doors look very classy. I wouldn't mind owning one. Keep up the great videos Lou!!

Thunderbird - the only way to fly! Diggin the Landau bars, curved rear seat, and the super sized blind spot. Ready for take off, Captain Lou!!

I do miss the gentle, smooth ride of these older classic cars...

In high school my buddy and I used to drive around in his mom's dark green 67 suicide 4 dr. What a great car! His mom's had a 390, but it could still build a good head of steam. Thanks for the memories Lou!

A good friend of mine had one of these, almost identical, when new. I drove that car a lot and it was absolutely superb. Powerful yet quiet and smooth.

61 and 67 are my favorate birds i had a 67 and a 69 .sure miss them , thanks LOU !!!!!!!!!!!

Certainly a treat to see this Thunderbird. Love at first sight since they came out. You're right it brings me back to childhood. Fabulous design either 2 or 4 door! 🏆 Anyone still have the Hot Wheels of it?

I had a 71 and it’s amazing how similar they were. Boy did I enjoyed that car.

What a beauty! This vehicle is superb in looks, even today! To me, this cars back in the late 60's had an eye for envy. Huge 429 V8 made some speed...429 Ford engines were NASCAR "approved" in auto racing if I remember. This car was an executive favorite (as shown in ads and TV commercials) Lou...you do such a good job in all these classic car shows...giving the person showing the car the proper pride and joy of ownership and when they showcase the cars. Have any of the passenger cars you've done been a 1966 Rambler Classic four door with a 232 6 cylinder...Pontiac '66 Le Mans coupe with a 326 V8 and automatic...1970 VW Fastback? I had the joy of driving them and owning two: the Pontiac (my very first car I bought in September of 1970 [$650]), and the VW, which a four on the floor I was given by my folks in December of '75 ? The Rambler was one I drove at times after I got my operator license in 1968. My folks bought it in April of 1966 (in fact, it was April 23...a Saturday) My very first car date was in that yellow/black car...That was late June in Indianapolis.

One of my friends in high school in the late 1970s had a 1968 T-bird coupe factory 429 Thunderjet. With 4 people in the car, that car would outrun most of the tuned-up muscle and pony cars that put up a challenge. It was quiet and comfortable, solid and dependable, fast and fuel thirsty, and I always wished I had one.

Hi, If you like this video, please click on SUPER THANKS ❤ with the $ in the middle which is the SUPER THANKS button under the video. Thank you! Lou

THANKS LOU ,KELLY … I love the car, the color and the hidden headlights and sequential lights👍 100% AGREE with your assessment LOU 😎💚💚💚

67' thru 69' "Glamour Birds" were the great.

Everything looks original. It's in great shape.

My favorite year of T-bird. The car exudes cool.

Thanks, Lou. You help me to live my car dreams!

Back when cars were interesting and had class. Beautiful Thunderbird.

I had one of these in Dark Charcoal in 1969. Absolutely loved this car. This was a real luxury car. Wish I could send you pictures !

Hey brother Kelly! This is your brother David! Also, thanks Lou, for another great video!

Beautiful Ford Thunderbird. What a survivor! Beautiful details. Thanks for posting!! have a blessed day!!

My Mom had one but it was White and it came with air and it had everything, A car made before it's time. Very nice, Stylish, Fast and comfortable.

This car has such swagger and pelnty of power too.

The clock works! What a car.

That really is a nice Tbird. I owned a 69 Mark III built on the same platform, Those are such a great riding car, its like sitting on your couch as you drive down the road and steer with your pinky. I always thought the interior of both cars was unique, the warning lights above the rear view mirror are so kewl. Great video Lou, I live in AZ hope to see that T bird driving around one day !

Yes - Very cool classic Ford ride • Cheers from the Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂

Grew up with a neighbour who always had T-Birds. He told my father once that “once you drive a Thunderbird you’ll never want to drive anything else.” Funny thing is, his last car was a Torino.

Always found these quite attractive, in the right color. Saw one in a dark red with G60×15 tires at each corner that was a real eye catcher. Of course, that was decades ago.

That is my favorite car i love the '69 thats a great car. In trying to get one for myself. 429 Thunderjet awesome kick butt 🤩💗💪🐦

I had a 69 thunderbird in high school in 1973. I bought it from a cheapo car lot on old Route 66 Oklahoma City for $1100. Also a landau with factory sunroof. It also had factory cruise control 8-track player, console, P/W and power driver's seat. It actually was a one owner car with 80,000 miles but must have been hard miles. The 429 had a rod knock every time you started the car and the transmission slipped a little. However, despite all of that, I drove it to Northern California and back from Southern Oklahoma with the cruise control set to 77mph on the interstates. The last cheap trip before gas prices shot up. I have always liked the 69 but I only ever wanted a true hardtop, which had no vinyl and also had the rear quarter windows.

The copper and black color scheme looks so good on this car. Back in the 90s, I almost bought a copper 1969 T-Bird for $1500, but I did not. I have regrets.

Another beautiful T-Bird Lou! I really enjoyed this video. I love that copper color. I had a 71 back in 1982 and my high school buddy had a 69 and his dad had a 67 or 68. They had a lot of great features for the time. Mine had the 429 and I did bury the speedometer a couple of times in my reckless youth. Those things just float down the road. I'm jealous of Kelly!

Burt Reynolds didn't know me, but I miss him, he was awesome 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Sweet ride like he said you see the older ones 66 and back rarely see a 69.

Nice car Kelly. Those '69 Thunderbirds are hard to find, especially in as great a shape as yours is.

The nurse at my high school had one, a 4 door/Burgundy/Black vinyl roof really nice garage kept car....

What a beautiful 69 and that copper paint w/the landau top gorgeous and that 429 I'm sure is all about torque in that cruiser!

Dig it! Thanks for posting this nice bird. Peace.

Sweet ride. ❤

Another great car you featured Lou. My Dads older brother had 2 of these except they were 4 Drs with suicide doors.

Nice! Always liked this generation, even though I've owned one from the generation before, a '65 white/red when I first moved to CA. Found it for $400, had non matching wheels, smoked like a mosquito truck, but the body (needed paint) all straight and interior perfect! After paint, complete restore of engine, trans, wheels, brakes, etc. and $2800.00 later, it was beautiful. This '69 in the 2 dr. Landau option is a find. The suicide door 4 dr. I wouldn't say no to either.

Very nice, my uncle had one of those. Still waiting to see a '67/68 4 door Thunderbird.

I had a 1970. A different snout, but basically the same interior with that wrap around back seat.

When these were new the local Ford dealer rarely kept these in stock due to the high price. I remember two, one of which was a two door Landau like this. I used to hang out at the dealership and everyone working there knew me. One day the dealership owner asked me if I wanted to see a magic dust cloth. I was 12 so I believed him. He had me wiping the dust off the cars in the showroom one of which was the Thunderbird.

I personally think the ones with the bucket seats and center console are extremely perfect. Not too many people options to have that and even fewer in the four-door variation.

A friend I grew up him and his dad collected nice Fords, they had nice muscle cars and trucks but one car he had under mounds of sheets inside a shed was a 1969 Thunderbird 429 convertible that had less then 100 miles.

Gorgeous T-Bird. In the fall of 1976 my Dad was trying to decide between a new 1977 white w/red interior T-Bird or a white w/red interior LTD coupe. Against my wishes he went with the LTD!

Beautiful car I like how you used to know the year make and model of cars back then. The styling on cars were like rolling art. Now all of the cars look the same.

Lou ... Years ago when I was just a kid , "Hot Wheels " the toy cars were brand spanking new & the had many cars they produced in miniature for. I had this suicide doors Thunderbird . In the print outside the box listed it's Real Life model specifications & list of equipment. I was so overjoyed to have it. I got both this one & a 68 SS Camaro I bought @ the same time. Just a coupla years later my Favorite Aunt purchased this same car here in this video & her husband Purchased the SS 70 Camaro. Was I blown away or what.! Yep those were the days my friend. Those two Uncle an Aunt were childless & embraced me & my siblings as there own. My Mom had divorced my Dad. Yup he had his interests in another lady. Everything turned up fine for all involved. But my love of Cars had changed from High HP cars to more Luxurious ones. My reasoning was sure it's fun to go fast but everyone spends more time going the speed limit & following posted speeds. So I thought it'd be Far better to be surrounded by luxury or be stuck with a basic no frills interiors. I chose Luxury. To this day that's what I have for my daily driver. My Lexus. Uh don't get mad @ me now I still run around most Sundays in my Dad's ol 71 Lincoln Continental. Yep that's my jewel I keep pristine & covered up in my Garage. Regular oil changes .. monthly checks of the diff & recently changed the tyranny fluid. Twice. Let's not forget the Torque Converter has got quite a bit of Trans fluid in it too. Replaced the radiator w/an all aluminum. Constructed one. Triple Core. My Dad lived near Death Valley & the Heat there is uggly hot . He didn't drive much had very poor eyesight after 63yrs living. Did lots of welding through the years took a toll on his eyesight. I got the car as a gift from him on his 70th B-Day. Really got all my Siblings riled up but I'm the ONLY mechanic for there cars & I'm a licensed mechanic by trade. Retired now but they really were pizzed off I got the Car. Anyhow I still take out my Green beauty & take her to church & it still gets ooh's an ahh's wherever I go.

Nice car my favorite year 67 thru 71'

Wow! Love the Birds! Love the '70 hubcaps, some of the finest ever designed. That 429 has me salivating. The light doors on those were vacuum controlled. Did you know those cars new cost more than Boss Mustang's? Great video as always. Thamk you!!!

I had a chance to buy a 69 4 door, the suicide doors in the same color in the 80s for 1500 bucks. It had the so called Landau top. The t bird was in great shape. Wish I had

Love this ‘Bird! Great color!!

Great car and great story! I would love to see you do a video on a 5th gen (1967-1971) Thunderbird four-door if you ever come across one. Thanks, Lou!

"NICE!" I was 10 when that T-Bird came out, and I really liked them. Very cool cars, but then I saw a 69 Cougar and that's the one that I loved. They kinda have the shape of the T-Bird but slimmer. Oh boy, the green of that year was so cool, and with the white interior, WOW! Yup, the T-Bird was cool, but the Cougar was "SAA-WEEEET!"

That back seat is too cool. It looks like a bordello back there. If the interior was red it would be too much. lol This is the 1st of the T-bird pimp DNA. I love the " Copper Flame Metallic". Infact I just painted an RC car of mine pretty much that exact color. Great video Lou...always on point.

That Landau top appears to be a privacy shade for that naughty back seat

Hey Lou very nice car and colour thanks,Chuck.

Beautiful! 😍😍😍😍😍 Thanks Lou!

Hi Lou, great stuff like always

Wow, there was a car just like this one user Rare Classic Cars & Automotive History uploaded awhile back! Same color and everything!

Beautiful car . I had a ‘79 T Bird Heritage . Don’t see many of these .

My 1st car was a 1969 thunderbird, yes the back seat was great for ......with relations with the girlfriend of the time. The trunk was good for bringing a keg to the party!

I miss the Thunderbird

You can adjust your trunk lid by moving the springs into the top position.

Yes excellent have always been a T-Bird fan 69 I loved the big boy luxury era 72 - 76 and the Aero birds 83- 88 and the last one the 95 - 97 and I thought that last attempt 2002 - 2005 was cool but not for me because I am a very tall at 6’5” if some of your older fans recall the old Perry Mason series his Private investigator Paul Drake drove T-Birds throughout the the run of the series and always focused on him using the swing away steering wheel feature

1969 Ford Thunderbird. The Ford Thunderbird would first be introduced in September of 1954 for the 1955 model year as a personal mid-size luxury car, possessing luxury options that are now common on standard vehicles today, such as Air Conditioning (A/C), Power Steering, Seatbelts, and Spare Wheels at the back. It came with the 4.8 Litre or 5.1 Litre Lincoln "Y-Block" V8 and came with a 3-Speed "Ford-O-Matic" Automatic Transmission or regular 3-Speed Manual Transmissions. The base price for the car was higher than the Chevrolet Corvette, at around $4500 to $5000 ($51,000 to $57,000). The MPG (Miles Per Gallon) this car made was around 18 Miles Per Gallon. The car sold around 53,000 units. The second-generation Thunderbird would be released for 1958 and lasting until 1960 (This was common for the early T'Birds, with each model lasting around 2 years to 3 years) as a newly redesigned full-size luxury car (The first generation 1955-1957 T'Bird was 185 inches, while this T'Bird was increased by 23 inches to 208 inches). The car was redesigned with quad headlights at the front, an extremely big/redesigned grille, and redesigned rear taillights surrounded by ovular pieces of metal. The 1961-1963 Thunderbirds and 1964-1966 Ford Thunderbirds were designed similarly with the same design features and luxury features, such as A/C, Seatbelts (Luxury), an aggressive front end, circular taillights, and a high price tag. This generation of the Thunderbird (1966-1971) would introduce a dramatically new front, side, and rear end design. For the front end, it featured a grille that covered the entire front end of the car with vertical/horizontal lines and a bird that would cover up the middle section of the grille along with hide-away headlights. It would also introduce foglights and side turning signals on the front sides of the car. For the rear end, it would be completely redesigned switch to rectangular taillights and have a "T H U N D E R B I R D" script in the middle of the rear fascia. They would introduce the Ford 385 V8 and Ford FE V8, with the 385 V8 being used on other of Ford's luxury cars and their sisters, such as the 1968-1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III.

I owned a 69 Landau in light blue with dark blue fabric interior. It had an electrically driven sun roof controlled by a rocker switch mounted in the overhead panel. I was told that it was the only 69 with a sun roof, made as a show car for touring fairs and car shows of that era. I was the second owner after it was retired from show biz. The car was equipped with cruise control.

💕✌️ high flying bird 🦅🦅🦅

Чудове авто! Дякую!

These cars remind of white lightning with burt renyolds he walked up to the brown sedan, he said dog gone would you look at that motor, my favorite part.

Cool ride