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It’s a good thing Jim Thibodeau doesn’t believe in bad omens. His initial experience with his fabulous 1956 Ford Thunderbird didn’t go too well. By the time Thibodeaux got the car home to Neenah, Wis., back in 1980, he figured there was nowhere to go but up.
“I was looking for an early Thunderbird — a ’55, '56 or ’57 — and I had an uncle living in South Carolina and he said, ‘I see a few every once in a while,’ recalled Thibodeau. “And he found one and he gave me a call and the lady said they’d sell it. It was sitting in a shed and I sent a check and bought it. I flew down and drove it back in March. I ran into a snowstorm in Chicago. The wiper blade flew off the car, the arm was scratching the windshield. I’m just cringing. It was leaking every fluid imaginable, it had sat so long: break fluid, transmission fluid, motor oil, antifreeze, everything. Every gas station I was filling everything up. But I finally made it home.”
More than 42 years later, the Colonial White baby ‘Bird is still the apple of Thibodeau’s eye. He’s had some other cars come and go over the years, but the classic ’56 has stayed in his garage. And it hasn’t seen a snowstorm since it arrived.
read more: https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/features/car-of-the-week-1956-ford-thunderbird-convertible
