Does he smoke weed bychance?

Thats so cool my mom had a 78 thunderbird its was beautiful I wish I still had it we had the the 5.8 litter diamond jubilee

I don't blaim him, I still want one of these Ford Thunderbird, awsome design!

In May 1979, I purchased a brand new Ford Thunderbird. I was only 19 years old when I bought the car paying $6,600. I drove it for three years then parked it in my parents garage (as I was transfered to another state). My parents have passed but I still have their house and my 79 T-Bird which only has 33K original miles. The car is light metallic jade with a dark green vinyl top and green interior and best of all,, it's near mint.

Sounds like me I still have a car from 1981

I’m Sooooooo Jealous

Bet the AC still works…mine was a beast!

Put heavy duty springs in the back. It will raise the ass end just enough to look pretty cool 😎

Do you still have it.....I hope so ...

@Keith Willis Yeah these were some of the largest and longest "chuckle" "midsize" cars ever.....Marketing, marketing...lol. Not much separated them from many "full" size cars of the time!

Well things like the Continental and Marquis would be considered full size. For the time it made sense, but yeah today it seems pretty crazy.

The 76's were even bigger! And those were still called mid size!

This was our family vehicle growing up. The doors are absolutely massive as well. No problem accessing the rear seats.

My Gramz was with the shyts too!!! 75 White Cougar with an 8 track player inside!😁

It was my dream car in high school, and I love the design!

Right! My Gramz had a White 75 Cougar I believe! lol Her's had a 8 Track Player inside😁

By offering editions like the Diamond Jubilee Edition and Heritage was Ford's attempt to hold on to the upper end of the personal luxury field which it largely abandoned with the 77 downsizing.

After 1976 the power on a Thunderbird went way down.but to me they looked sleeker with that badass hood design.

My boss had a 1977 Mark V with the Quadrasonic Stereo and tape player. It was a nice sounding Stereo for a 1977

I agree there - the 77s and 78s look better than the 79s, front and rear.

"only drive it on special occasions" i hate people like this, its a damn car drive it for christ's sake

I hope you get a Thunderbird soon! Life's too short!

There is one advantage to the 79. Because of the way they are laid out, it is a minor modification to fit sequential turn signals. The advantage to the 77 and 78 lights (yes they are different from each other) is that it is easy to install European compliant turn signals to the back of the car.

Dennis Bowers Really? Imagine a mustang powered SUV like mitsubishi did with the eclipse, definitely there is no market for a car like this dont you think? And its a shame!

Sadly, Ford and other autobile manufactures no longer makes personal luxury cars any more, all designed to be sports cars.

Sorry, that ship has sailed. SUVs, minivans, 4-door pickup trucks, and large crossovers have replaced full-sized cars, which were popular among people born in the 1920s and earlier.

@@jasonhsu4711 in 20 years there won't be gas powered motors.

Gas mileage is easy to improve. My brother had a 79 that, by the time he was done, was matching the fuel consumption of an 89 Honda Civic. If he had the extended range tank he would have been able to do 1,000 miles on a tank with some left over.

Yes, that was the main color choice, they also offered it in a coppery color called "Ember" metallic and then you could get the Diamond blue trim with white paint and the Ember trim in pastel tan. They offered the regualar Thunderbirds in like 18 colors and 6 interior trim colors so people could really tailor them they way they wanted and you would most likely never see one just like yours on the road.

Wow, I do not recognize this as Point Loma. The scenery seems too rural. There's almost NO traffic in the highway scene at the beginning or in any other scene. Even the in-town scenes look like they were shot in a small rural town rather than in a city or suburb. The parking lots are so empty.

@@jasonhsu4711 not the rural scenes, but the marina scenes towards the end of the vid. :)

Those Ford 8-Track players were pretty cool, especially the "Quadrasonic" model.

Don't forget that AM radio is standard, but can be deleted at the discretion of the owner.

That lovely mechanical chime, handed down from Lincoln, copied from Cadillac. Maybe it was the same part? Either way, that was luxury.

Same! Sadly I don't think they'll put my initials on it anymore...

No, these Thunderbirds were on the LTD II platform, which was the former Torino platform.

Was thinking the same.

The chimes were introduced in '78 for the Diamond Jubilee Bird and Mark V and became a regular feature in '79 for some other models

Can confirm, Hotel California does sound good in these cars lol. But they could use an upgrade imo. 40 year old speakers and radio don't have the same oomph that modern tech can provide.

I saw that too! :)

It all had to do with emissions. The 400 was probably the only one that met the requirement without heavy mods and retaining some level of performance.

My first new car was a 78 Thunderbird Maroon in colour with the 302....Sharp looking car however the folding headlights were garbage in the snow and cold (I live in Ontario Canada) and the 302 V8 with all the emissions on it make my wifes current 2016 Honda Civic 2 lt 4 seem like a race engine...The 302 back then was very unresponsive..

California's government is BIPOLAR.

@@ontarioobserver1287 yeah but you still get the noise from the V8. Thats more fun than power for me 😊

California makes a killing off gasoline taxes. They hide behind emission requirements but are mostly looking at their revenue.

The 302 2 bbl had no guts in '78 - The 400 2 bbl was the only one with any type of power (165 hp 320 ft lbs torque approx.). Even the 460 in the Lincolns were bad that year (202 hp 350 ft lbs torque)

@@1983jblack yeah, gotta love the smog engines these had. Got a 351m in mine. Rated at 150hp and 270lb.ft torque I believe. I'm getting 11mpg atm LMAO

@@1983jblack I had the 78, with the 351M It put out a blazing 144 BHP Looking at the specs, the 302 had 134 BHP,. and the 400 wasn't much better with 166 BHP, all the new emission controls (in the 70's) killed those engines

would like to add that 77-79 engines were at a dismal 7.89:1 ratio and backed up with a lazy 2.5:1 in the rear end

@@lapdog65 Don't feel bad I had a 1977 Mercury Cougar XR-7 with the 400. Bought it brand new on 07/08/1977. As beautiful as it was, it was nothing to write home about performance wise. My 1972 Mercury Montego MX with a 351 could eat that Cougars lunch. The funny thing about these cars is each car we bought was much slower then the last. Our 62 Chrysler Newport was a dragster compared to the Montego and Cougar. The Montego had the smoothest quietest ride of any car I've ever driven. Always thought the speedometer was off, because at 65 MPH it felt more like 40. Had it tested and it was accurate.

And then sold a gillion of them when they made that Fox frame t-bird aerodynamic in 1983.

The aerodynamic look was a foretelling of Ford's greatest triumph of the era - the Taurus/Sable

Funny Ford destroyed the thunderbird sales in 1980 redesign and then did the same thing to taurus in 1996.

Ease up man. You're taking it way to personally 😂

@@JayFreely I"m not taking it to "personally" I"m just telling you how it used to be. I"m 58 yrs old and apparently you"re a lot younger or else you would understand where I"m coming from; "I hope you dont take this PERSONALLY"

Yep :) The Eagles Hotel California album was shown.

CTUALLY THEY HAD SEVERAL. tHE BASE AM/FM WAS MONOAUREL WITH ONLY ONE DASH SPEAKER. tHEN THERE WAS AM/FM STEREO, AM/FM SIGNAL SEEKING STEREO, AND 2 AM/FM UNITS EACH WITH AN 8 TRACK TAPE UNIT. oNE WAS REGUALAR 4 SPEAKER STEREO AND ONE WAS QUADRASONIC STEREO. Sorry for all those caps due to caps lock, but I am not going back to re-type.

My father's 1977 Chevrolet Impala had an AM-only radio.

@@jasonhsu4711 Well it was during the disco era so he wasn't missing nothing.