![]() ![]() Frankly, the Overhead safety Panel was a lot more sizzle than steak, with a quartet of warning lights. The vinyl roof and fake landau bars of the Town Landau worked even less for me.īut I was a sucker for the T Bird’s interior, and had been ever since I first saw a Bullet Bird shortly after arriving in the US in the fall of 1960. Maybe because I was a foreigner, and had natural immunity? ![]() It still doesn’t, but then I hadn’t yet come down with Brougham fever. The huge C Pillar and that curve in the trailing upper edge of the door glass just didn’t work for me. I found the new roof style jarring and inharmonious in the fall of 1965 when I first saw it. It sold in very modest numbers then, but there’s more than ever nowadays.įor 1966, Ford offered the new “Town” hardtop as an alternative to the traditional hardtop, which didn’t exactly have much of a rear side window to start with. The previous effort was the Sports Roadster, essentially a fiberglass tonneau cover over the rear seats with built in headrests, available on the previous generation Bullet Bird. So Ford kept placating them in ways to make the Flair Bird look more like a two passenger car, like this 1966 Town Landau. Who needs rear side windows anyway? Despite the fact that switching to a four passenger format in 1958 was the key breakthrough for T Bird sales, Ford knew that many lovers of the ’55-’57 T Birds were never quite resigned to that fact. Shade on the top section of the instrument panel and defroster grille assembly,Īs well as the coved section of the instrument panel.Brougham fever was virulent in 1966 at Ford, and the results speak for themselves. The Silver Mink, Red, Aqua, and Ivy Gold interiors all feature a darker The White Pearl with Black and White appointments interior features a WhiteĬonsole and console access panel assembly, and glove compartment door. This is due to the assortment of different colors teamed with White Pearl These two color combinations also do not have carpeting on the bottom of Of the instrument panel and defroster grille assembly are always Black Instrument cluster assembly, instrument panel upper moulding assembly,Ĭlock housing, console and console access panel assembly, glove compartmentĭoor, and carpeting. Speaker/defroster grille assembly, coved section of the instrument panel, Note: Trim codes listed above in bold denote trims for optional Reclining Passenger Seat with Adjustable Headrest.Īppointments include the top section of the instrument panel and radio For more information on the molded headliner, see our 1966 Thunderbird Contoured Headliner page for color availability, and 1966-67 Thunderbird Contoured Headliner Repair page for repair procedures (both links open in new window or tab). The Town Hardtop and Town Landau had a two piece molded vinyl headliner with crater pattern with color-keyed moldings and a center roof console. Note 2: The Hardtop model featured a traditional vinyl perforated headliner with polished roof rail moldings, color-keyed to the interior. Strangely, the pattern on the front seats does not exactly match the rear ![]() ![]() The biscuit design was continued onto the seat cushion, without the buttons. Was a square biscuit design, with a button mounted where the seams intersect. Note: The 1966 interior featured a pleated design at the top section of the seatīacks, which extended about two thirds of the way down, terminating atĪ horizontal strap that extended from bolster to bolster. ![]()
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