Here is a series of caches that celebrates one of the coolest models of cars ever built, the Ford Thunderbird. I've never owned one, but one day I'd love to buy and old classic example. I'd cruise from cache to cache with the top down! Man, that would be the life.
Landau and Sports Roadster [opens in new window]
models introduced
Thunderbird 390 High Performance Sports
V-8 engine option
Kelsey-Hayes Wire Wheel option (standard on
Sports Roadster)
Swing-Away Steering Wheel added to standard
equipment list early in production
Instrument and door trim panels revised in April 1962
to achieve a better fit where they meet. The new design is
NOT interchangeable with the previous parts
Four New Thunderbirds
On January 17, 1962 television quiz show contestant Charles Van Doren and others were convicted in New York of game show fixing; President John F. Kennedy learns of Soviet missile deployments in Cuba on October 16, 1962, and demands their removal. The United States and Russia were on the brink of thermonuclear war before Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles on October 28, 1962, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis.