Corvette vs T-Bird

[Roy B.]

By the time the 55 came out people knew the 55 leaked every where and got the nick name bath tub . When it started to rain you had to get out open the trunk and snap the windows in getting even wetter. It came with no hard top to hold the heat in on a cold day. Putting the soft top up took two people getting their fingers pinched then you had a sore neck getting in and out.. It had no power options, If you were a large person the steering wheel distance sucked , you cant even lock the stupid thing,you need to reach in the vent window to open the stupid door, To wash and clean the vett you fill it with water and to get the bugs off the headlights you need to remove the headlight doors , on a Dewey day cops stop you because they cant read the license plate. Should I continual? OK ! The cost was 1K more !
If Ford continual making the T-Bird TWO seater , Corvette may have dropped out, but like Ford they give up on a good idea.
Listing all the stupid things about the 55 makes me wonder why I own one ,I must be stupid too. He He .

[Jack H.]

Re: Corvette vs T-Bird

Roy, Is this a "rant?" :-)

[Don S.]

Re: Corvette vs T-Bird

all those complaints are over 50 year too late.

One good thing in favour of the vette is that with wire wheels it looks awesome.--
nice picture.

[Randy G.]

Re: Corvette vs T-Bird

Nice El Camino.

[Roy B.]

Re: Corvette vs T-Bird Video and they go faster *NM*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOUmeM2H1cA

[Richard M.]

Re: Corvette vs T-Bird

Roy, is it snowing again????

I think you need a new project to keep you busy till spring. How about a nice 58-62 basket case?

Rich

[Roy B.]

Re: Corvette vs T-Bird

You have one cheap? I would love to do one. No snow yet

[Richard M.]

Re: Corvette vs T-Bird

Yes I do.....a 62.

I just paid a measeley $34,757.53 for some used original dash gauges.....although free shipping. Pay me for the gauges and I''ll throw in the car for free.....

[Roy B.]

Re: Corvette vs T-Bird

That's hard to say NO to but again I use the word often NO!

[Bert L.]

Re: Corvette vs T-Bird

Sounds as though you need some Harley-Davidson therapy Roy!

[Chuck S.]

Re: Corvette vs T-Bird

Ah, Roy...You've forgotten your "roots".

It was much easier to adjust to the "downside" if you were approaching the Corvette from earlier years, rather than to contrast the image of that first fiberglass car with your 2006.

Seeing the first Corvette "from the past", many of those features seemed like the upside, "the future", "where we're headed". Some of those people having to get wet putting in side curtains considered that "sporty" to having to get out in the rain to hand crank the old flivver. How about electric windshield wipers? (Your 55 DOES have electric wipers, doesn't it?) Too cool!...Windshield wipers that didn't stop wiping when you went uphill. These days, we have near infinitely variable wiping, and we want wipers that turn themselves on.

Corvette and Thunderbird had different directions from the beginning...the die was cast for Corvette's success and Thunderbird's demise from Day One. The primary difference was due to the people behind the marques...the Corvette partriachs (Read ZAD, with upper management's consent) pursued a performance sports car regardless of sales, and TBird managers went solely for whatever they thought would sell...they started out by copying the Corvette because they thought the concept might sell. But, they kept tinkering with the mission statement; make them more plush, make them a four seater, blah, blah.

The irony is that TBirds sales were ALWAYS higher than Corvette, but they always wanted more and more. Finally it was just another aging, overweight, slow, velvet-Elvis Gas Hawg with a Mercury branded stablemate. Since FoMoCo was never content to just build a high quality, low-volume niche performance car, the sales numbers became embarrassing compared to their other high volume lines, and they ministered the coup-de-grace...only to bring it back years later as a bug-eyed, go-kart cousin; ironically, once more as a desperate measure to gain sales.