I purchased this 1969 Ford Thunderbird in the summer of 1988 in Dallas, Texas. I am the third owner. At the time of purchase, the vehicle had about 34,000 miles on it. I have enough repair records from the original owners over the years to show that this is original mileage. At the time of writing (July, 2006) the car now has about 54,000 miles. When I bought the car, it had spent its entire life in the Dallas, Texas area. Three years after the purchase, in the summer of 1991 I moved back to my hometown of Ottawa, Canada where the T-Bird spent the next 8 years. It was never winter driven, but it was regularly used during the non-winter months from 1991 through until the end of 1994. In January of 1995, I moved to southern Germany and the car was left in storage at my home in Ottawa for the next 4 � years. I had not expected to be gone for that length of time so the car was not properly prepared for storage. A neighbor did start the vehicle every now and then, but for the most part, the car sat covered in a non-heated garage. Upon returning from Germany in the summer of the 1999, the car was transported via moving van to my home in Morgan Hill, CA where the photographs were taken. Since then, I�ve done some work on the car to get it back in shape again and I�ve moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

More information and some repair tips are available from the T-Bird section of: www.utas.org.

Data:

Engine: 429 cid

Bore: 4.36 in

Stroke: 3.59 in

Compression: 10.5:1

Horsepower 360

Options: Tilt steering wheel, automatic tilt-away steering wheel, Selectaire A/C with automatic Temperature Control

Repairs:

1. Carburetor rebuild.

2. Gas tank sending unit replaced.

3. Gas tank purged and cleaned.

4. Clock.

5. Sequential Turn signals.

6. Cleaning of rear signal lights.

7. Headlight vacuum motors replaced.

Modifications:

1. Sequential Turn signals � solid state replacement.

2. Clock � electronic.

3. Electronic Ignition.

4. Holley Carburetor.

5. Sound system.