This pic is hillarious!

The "Junior" Ford Thunderbirds

Hi Anders,

I thought it was pretty funny also, so I used it! Here are some video clips, as I find them, showing Shriners using these motorized promotional "Junior" cars in a parade. They dont seem to be Tbirds though.

















Some these might be Tbirds!

Now that's a Flairbird rag-top I COULD afford!!

all i want is one of the bare molds like in the pic above it would look super next to my 65 mustang pedal car body

I'm On The Hunt!!....

Sniff, Sniff, Sniff! I go digging through websites, searching, searching, tongue hanging out in near exhaustion! Suddenly, I get a whiff of a "Junior" Ford Thunderbird promotional car. It (or I should say, they!) are in California! I get a lead through Tom Maruska's story about the Italien! It gives me a name and location... Sniff, Sniff, Sniff.. POINT!! I have it! I pick up the phone and call Mustang Country, looking for Don Chambers, who Tom bought the Italien from. In Chapter 13, he tells about the many "Junior" promotional cars that Don had collected over the years. Some 30+ of them!

So I call them, only to find out that Don had passed away in 2006, but that his wife, Ailene, still has some of the cars left. She has been selling them as she can find buyers for them. I am given her phone number, which I call, and enjoy a good conversation with her. She has about a dozen or so "Juniors" left, in various conditions. She has some with just the body shells, 1958-1966. Body shells go from $500 to $2,000. She has some that are pretty complete, that go from around $1,000 up. I think she has a '58, '59, '60, '61, '65 and a '66. Plus she has one or more Mustangs, and other brands of cars left still. She is about to do some advertising in Hemmings about them... So if you are interested, you should be beating on her door before that article is published..

She told me that she will send me some pictures of them to show you what she has left. I will post what she sends me when I get them. She also gave me permission to post her telephone numbers here in case you want to call her. She said that you can probably best get her on her cell phone. It is:
562-716-9599. Her regular phone is: 562-633-7672

Remember that there are still parts for these cars available. Here is that resource link again..

Any chance of consolidating this infomation into the "Junior" section found on the Home Page. Under Sqbird Model, there is a sub-folder for Sqbird Junior that must have been set up by Alexander.

If updates can be made to the Home Page folders, I could contribute many pictures of HO scale slot cars. Aurora offered a 1960 Thunderbird in their first group of cars that were run from an AC transformer, these were called 'Vibrators'. The next generation of cars were DC and included a 63 sports roadster, this series were called the 'Thunderjets'.

Guessing that'll bring back some memories for our members.

I´m stunned.

Again.

And I want one...... How the heck do I get one ´58 to Sweden without going bankrupt for the shipping......

Some Bloodhound I am!

I did not even know that link was there on the Home Page regarding the "Junior" cars! Alexander did though! lol.. It is under the Toys & Models page. Click on it. Also the link to the guy who has the molds and parts for them is there! As far as consolidating this thread under that Button, that would be up to skyd.

http://www.squarebirds.org/thunderbird_junior.htm

I just got some pix from Ailine, with more to come of the '65, I hope. Here is what she said.

"Here are the pictures and the correct prices. I do not have any pic's of the 1965 TBird but I will try to get them to you later.

The 1961 Body is $1000. The 1959's are $2500. each. One is a smaller version but is made by Power car company as well. The 1965 is $2,000. Thanks, Ailene"

As I said in a previous post, if you are just looking for the mold, you can get them a lot cheaper, IF he has that model, for the guy who sells parts for them. The URL is on that post.

Here are the pix she sent.

heck , i only gave 800.00 for rosie with extra parts ...... thats alittle rich for this poor boy

Here are more pictures of the 58-60 body from the original molds. That show the detail they put into these little cars




I see someone in this thread was talking about their Mustnag pedal car so here is a couple mustang JR body shots in this thread.

I just got in a bunch of shots of a 1960 1/4 scale that I will post on my forums then share a link here. The body mold I have is for the larger 1/3rd scale.

There are guys shipping cars to Sweden all of the time. Find someone that is loading a container here in the states and I will ship the body to the greyhound bus depot by were they are loading the container for under $100.US. Just have them put it in the container that way.

I have sent a couple to Australia that way as well as the UK and Norway. Now if your really want to spend the cash I had a guy from Iceland have one flown over. But shipping these is not as bad as you think.

Here are the pictures of the 1/4 scale 1960 (like the red one in the postcard) http://jrcentral.com/forum/general/i...ames;read=1386

The legroom in the 1/4 scale is nowhere near that of the 1/3 scale where your feet and the pedals are clear out behind the grille. These are pretty much for kids!

Here is a Youtube video that you guys should enjoy? It also shows why so many of these cars did not survive till today.


Whole bunch of Junior car videos here!


And even more here!