It is naturally replete with options to make life more comfortable for driver and passengers (powering steering and brakes, and power windows, which used to be extras and not available on lesser models), but what is remarkable is the amount of work that’s been done to this car. The model in question has 63,000 miles on its 460-CID V8, backed up with the staunch C6 3-speed automatic, which has been rebuilt. Perhaps the best way to say it is that this 1970s T-Bird is more about commanding Route 66 than simply cruising it. when the big engine, about which more below, was between the shock towers. Sources say that this gen of Thunderbird was the largest ever, and they cite a weight of nearly 5,000 lbs. This generation came out in the 1972 model year and lasted until 1976. Morphing from a sporty two-seat roadster into a full-sized personal luxury car nudging into Lincoln territory, the T-Bird saw a massive identity shift by the marketing gurus at Ford into what was eventually this, the sixth generation.
Had you beamed someone forward from the 1950s into a Ford showroom of the early 1970s and told them to pick out the Thunderbird, they would have had a hard time doing so. If you do so, will you keep those Torq-Thrust-style wheels on there? The car is listed on craigslist for an asking price of $15,000, and you’ll have to retrieve it from the Detroit metro area should you come to terms with the seller. The vehicle in question is a 1973 Ford Thunderbird, Emerald Fire green with a complementing vinyl top and interior. the face plate/grille clamps the speaker to the panel and is actually quite sturdy, providing the lower panel hardboard is not all soft and mushy like most of them.A forest of green and a car so green it’s nearly camouflaged in the setting-that’s what Pat L has found for us. Spade connectors?Īnd, as you surmised the door speakers do mount to the door panels. Can't remember how the horn wires connected to the buttons. If the nut will not bottom on the steering wheel, I would look for damaged threads at the lower part of the threads, shaft, or, whoever installed the after-market wheel modified it and buggered it up! In any event, I do not see why you cannot put a washer under the nut, as long as the steering wheel does not bind on the column housing.
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I looked on my wiring diagram drawing and shop manual drawings, and neither of them show or mention a washer.
I have had the steering wheel off the first one, (horn buttons) and do not remember a washer between the wheel and nut. I have owned 2 "66's, the first with the standard steering wheel with a horn button on either spoke, and one now with cruise control, (uses a semi-circular horn ring.) If that's the case, sounds kind of flimsy. speaker grill bolted to the speaker with the door panel sandwiched in between and then the whole assembly mounted to the door through the bits and pieces that hold the door cards to the door. Is there some type of spring arrangement that goes between the wheel hub and the hub in the column for the horn contacts? Right now I've got the 4 wires (2 per side) that run from the horn levers to the hub and presumably bolt to the steering wheel hub but don't know what happens between the steering wheel hub and the hub in the column to make the necessary contacts.Īlso, do the door speakers on cars so equipped mount to the door or do they just bolt on to the door panels i.e. Can someone give me details on how the original steering wheel is mounted? Is there supposed to be a washer between the nut and the steering wheel hub? (mine won't tighten up without a washer so I don't know, if there's not supposed to be a washer, what takes up the slack so the wheel hub fits tightly). My '66 came with after market steering wheel with remote horn button mounted below the dash.
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