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1960 thunderbird mecum2/9/2024 ![]() Please be sure to call or email before visiting as we do not keep regular hours at our warehouse. Call Tom or Dave at (407) 428-0116 for vehicle details. Selling at the Mecum car auction Saturday Jan. Paint code M Corinthian White with trim code 56 black and. ![]() Title states "odometer exempt" because of age. 352 ci V8 engine, automatic transmission, power steering and power brakes. This vintage square bird is a pleasure to drive and never fails to attract a crowd! Note: Odometer reads 85,355. 1960 Ford Thunderbird Hardtop Coupe, 0Y71Y170331, 2020 Worldwide Auctioneers : The Auburn Auction. The engine compartment is very clean, the trunk compartment is excellent and you'll see a 5th Kelsey Hayes wire wheel as a spare. The interior is trimmed in red leather (genuine leather) and the interior show excellent. The chrome, glass and trim are very good to excellent. The body is arrow straight and features beautiful bright red paint. This Thunderbird is in excellent operational condition, It's an outstanding driver. Also equipped with automatic transmission, air conditioning (works), power steering, power brakes, power windows, power driver seat, leather upholstery, center mount trunk antenna, continental kit, dual mirrors, factory AM radio in dash plus concealed stereo w/cd changer in glove box and Kelsey-Hayes wire wheels with wide whitewall radial tires. Powered by a 352 cubic inch V8 engine with a four barrel carburetor, dual exhaust and an impressive 300 horsepower (factory rating). This Thunderbird features the rare sunroof option along with the "windbreaker rail" which all sunroof cars came with. ![]() Only 2,536 were built and because of tow demand and high cost the option was dropped and would not appear again until 1967. Hope he has fun with it.In 1960 Ford offered a sunroof option for the Thunderbird. (I thought at first he was the owner.) He claimed that the car was in good shape and that he was going to buy it, however, we saw a young man, perhaps in his early 20s, who was the winning bidder. We had a long talk with a bidder was fiddling with the car the entire time. Much of the exterior glass is cracked and/or delaminated. Red wheels with newer looking whitewall tires. Black paint, plaid seat covers over very worn tan upholstery. Listed sale price is the HAMMER price and does NOT include the 10% buyer’s premium. Vehicles are listed in ascending sale price order. However, as I’ve heard myself repeatedly state, if you are looking for a collector car, have between $10k and $20k to spend, and most importantly are open-minded about make and model, there are indeed some bargains to be had. Not all were bargains (looking at you, 2002). All the cars below sold between $5,000 and $22,000. My auction report below covers the sale of 11 cars which I found interesting, 10 of which sold on Wednesday, and one on Thursday. When I attended Day 1 of Mecum’s 2022 Harrisburg auction (their first time back in PA since before the pandemic), it was because I knew from past experience that any potential bargains happen early in the proceedings. It has gotten to the point where some collectors have opined that “any running, driving collector car for under $15,000 is a ‘bargain’”. Vehicles that were previously deemed uninteresting were bringing silly money, especially at online auctions. In some cases, certain cars saw their values double and triple compared to one or two years prior. Starting sometime in 2020, soon after the Covid pandemic shutdown, prices of special interest cars skyrocketed. The definition of a bargain has been discussed a lot lately in the superheated collector car market. ![]() What constitutes a “bargain”? Is it always limited to an “on sale” price? Does a bargain happen when a seller is unsure of an item’s value and lets it go for a lowball offer? Is it possible that when an entire category (think housing) is deemed expensive that anything which sells below market, no matter its condition, is perceived as a bargain?
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