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Known casting variations:
1961 and 1962 year models
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Picture Of The Week - 01/27/2007 Thunderbirds!
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#3
Posted 27 January 2007 - 10:41 PM
Great picture, Wyatt.
Thanks for sharing.
This casting looks outstanding with wire wheels and thin whitewall tires.
My favourite of this casting is the white one. I bought a couple of it when it came out.
This one:
Thanks Wyatt for letting me use the image.
I think that is a casting that a lot of collectors may have overlooked.
Cheers. Cobra
Thanks for sharing.
This casting looks outstanding with wire wheels and thin whitewall tires.
My favourite of this casting is the white one. I bought a couple of it when it came out.
This one:
Thanks Wyatt for letting me use the image.
I think that is a casting that a lot of collectors may have overlooked.
Cheers. Cobra
#6
Posted 28 January 2007 - 09:16 AM
QUOTE(Thundercougarfalconbird @ Jan 28 2007, 01:36 AM) 
Sweeeeeeet! One of my favorite cars of all time. My dad had a '62 at one time. Now if JL would do the '64-'66 I'd truly be in diecast heaven.
I know for a fact you're not the only JL collector that wants that '64-'66 done! cal has a 1:1 and is dying for a 1:64 version.
#7
Posted 29 January 2007 - 12:47 PM
QUOTE(Wyatt @ Jan 28 2007, 07:16 AM)
I know for a fact you're not the only JL collector that wants that '64-'66 done! cal has a 1:1 and is dying for a 1:64 version.
The 64-66 Bird was actually mocked up in 2:1 form, but cost matters dictated that Thunderbirds was a four-casting release instead of six. (This was decided a couple of months before I got there.) The sixth casting, which also didn't make it, was actually the whole reason for the series: the 2001-issue roadster. We pitched it to Ford, But as far as I know Ford knocked it down early enough in the planning stages that a mockup was never completed. I wonder whether including the 64-66 in the series instead of the 68-9 would have made it sell any better. Some in upper management blamed the series' slow sales on not having photocards in the package. I argued that if we couldn't find photocards to put in the package, that should be a thumbnail indicator of whether we should do the series. But no one listened. (As a followup, once the T-Bird was out and was selling poorly, Ford approached us and said "hey! How about doing the new Thunderbird?" We couldn't say f-u fast enough.) TL likely still retains the 64-6 T-bird mockup, and if he sold the Porsche 944 on the Bay I suspect that it's a matter of time before that one goes on the block also.
In any case, my favorite variant of the casting in the photos on these pages was the Indy Pace Car one. Since we weren't going to do a Pace Car series again anytime soon, I thought that each springtime Classic Gold release should have a single Pace Car in there just to keep our link with Indy and past Pace Car series. Had I stuck around, a 2000 Monte Carlo would have come next after the Bird. But things didn't work out that way.
jk
#11
Posted 23 November 2007 - 05:49 PM
Wow. That brings back memories...
I didn't know the year of the Johnny T-Bird I had but I definately remember the 'fiberglass' cover over the back seats.
I had a red one back in the late-eighties to early nineties. About the same time Johnny Lightning came out with a whole sleau of Corvettes and I had about 3-5 of those.
Thanks for the Memories Wyatt... and the Image too.
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I didn't know the year of the Johnny T-Bird I had but I definately remember the 'fiberglass' cover over the back seats.
I had a red one back in the late-eighties to early nineties. About the same time Johnny Lightning came out with a whole sleau of Corvettes and I had about 3-5 of those.
Thanks for the Memories Wyatt... and the Image too.
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