Ford Thunderbird

The Ford Thunderbird, nicknamed the T-Bird, was Ford's personal luxury car, built for the model years 1955 to 2005 with a break from 1998 to 2001. It began as an upscale two seat convertible and led the new personal luxury segment from 1958, when a rear seat was added. It then grew larger with each redesign before being downsized in 1977 and 1980, and came back at the end as a retro styled two seater. More than 4.4 million were built. This site gives every generation and every model year its own page, in 11 generations: the first generation (1955 to 1957 model years); the second generation, Square Bird (1958 to 1960 model years); the third generation, Bullet Bird (1961 to 1963 model years); the fourth generation, Flair Bird (1964 to 1966 model years); the fifth generation (1967 to 1971 model years); the sixth generation (1972 to 1976 model years); the seventh generation (1977 to 1979 model years); the eighth generation (1980 to 1982 model years); the ninth generation (1983 to 1988 model years); the tenth generation (1989 to 1997 model years); the eleventh generation (2002 to 2005 model years).