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I came across a picture of a highly custom Squarebird on Tumblr the other day (oddly, on a vintage trailer blog). So custom, it was hard to recognize as a Squarebird.
I did some digging and discovered that it began life as a '59 and was built by a guy named Bo Sandberg in Sweden in 1965. It's named Wild Bird, more info on it here, including build pictures. The roll hoop was made from the roof and the panel over the rear seats was made from a second deck lid.
Here are a couple more images:
It was evidently shipped to the US. I wonder if it's still around today.
He had also built another more mild custom '59 convertible before called the Surfin Bird. It was built between 1961 & 1964. It features a custom toneau over the rear seats, 1960 style tailights, smoothed doors and a custom grille.
The most radical touch, however, were the Imperial like headlights.
This one evidently survives, and was seen as recently as 2003 at a car show in Sweden, although it now wears a '60 grille insert and the door spears have returned.
I don't remember seeing those here anywhere, and a site search for "Sandberg" came up empty.
The caption of this image says "The Deejays GTA version of Bo's Thunderbird at the 1968 SPR."
I did some digging and discovered that it began life as a '59 and was built by a guy named Bo Sandberg in Sweden in 1965. It's named Wild Bird, more info on it here, including build pictures. The roll hoop was made from the roof and the panel over the rear seats was made from a second deck lid.
Here are a couple more images:
It was evidently shipped to the US. I wonder if it's still around today.
He had also built another more mild custom '59 convertible before called the Surfin Bird. It was built between 1961 & 1964. It features a custom toneau over the rear seats, 1960 style tailights, smoothed doors and a custom grille.
The most radical touch, however, were the Imperial like headlights.
This one evidently survives, and was seen as recently as 2003 at a car show in Sweden, although it now wears a '60 grille insert and the door spears have returned.
I don't remember seeing those here anywhere, and a site search for "Sandberg" came up empty.
The caption of this image says "The Deejays GTA version of Bo's Thunderbird at the 1968 SPR."
The text about "Deejays" is to my understanding because a English Pop group with the name of DeeJays rented it for some promotional work.
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