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My Pitted Princess! 60HT Thunderbird
Hello All,
I thought I should post a few of my pictures straight from Photobucket. This is my 1960 Ford Thunderbird HT I bought in the beginning of 2006. It is Raven Black with Red interior. This particular car sat in a disconnected garage with little environmental protection for close to 20 years. The car was roughly 99% original when I got it. I bought it in the condition shown in the first four pictures. I have many more pics. The car had 50,060 miles on it and had not been started in more than 15 years. The 352 had the chrome package and most of it was pitted extremely bad. This pitting continued throughout the interior and on every chrome piece on the car. This is where she got her name "The Pitted Princess". I knew that it would be a bit of work to make it all look presentable. With no brakes it had to be towed to my place where the restoring began. I have a small garage and limited resources so I did what I could. Since the beginning I have restored all of the chrome to a presentable shine with new chrome pieces awaiting to be installed after paint. I have replaced the entire braking system, dash pad, painted the steering wheel, restored the windows to operating condition, new water pump, tires, taillight assembly restoration, and countless amounts of hardware. I know I am missing countless other items and projects because I am still at it to this day. The pictures at the bottom are of some of the completed work. the car is now running and I have put a few miles on her. I have still not attempted the highway just yet. Right now she is a presentable daily type driver that turns heads everywhere. I am in the process of saving money to paint the car back to the original raven black. She needs it even though you can still see yourself in the original paint. There are some rough spots. If you have questions just post and let me know. Thanks for looking.
Aric
In the begining
As of the past few months
I thought I should post a few of my pictures straight from Photobucket. This is my 1960 Ford Thunderbird HT I bought in the beginning of 2006. It is Raven Black with Red interior. This particular car sat in a disconnected garage with little environmental protection for close to 20 years. The car was roughly 99% original when I got it. I bought it in the condition shown in the first four pictures. I have many more pics. The car had 50,060 miles on it and had not been started in more than 15 years. The 352 had the chrome package and most of it was pitted extremely bad. This pitting continued throughout the interior and on every chrome piece on the car. This is where she got her name "The Pitted Princess". I knew that it would be a bit of work to make it all look presentable. With no brakes it had to be towed to my place where the restoring began. I have a small garage and limited resources so I did what I could. Since the beginning I have restored all of the chrome to a presentable shine with new chrome pieces awaiting to be installed after paint. I have replaced the entire braking system, dash pad, painted the steering wheel, restored the windows to operating condition, new water pump, tires, taillight assembly restoration, and countless amounts of hardware. I know I am missing countless other items and projects because I am still at it to this day. The pictures at the bottom are of some of the completed work. the car is now running and I have put a few miles on her. I have still not attempted the highway just yet. Right now she is a presentable daily type driver that turns heads everywhere. I am in the process of saving money to paint the car back to the original raven black. She needs it even though you can still see yourself in the original paint. There are some rough spots. If you have questions just post and let me know. Thanks for looking.
Aric
In the begining
As of the past few months
Slowly I'm getting things done. I've panted/dyed most of the interior, redone my brakes, got some aluminum wheels and this summer rebuilt my front end. I'm really looking forward to being able to drive it with confidence now this spring.
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