1964 Thunderbird Rescued From Its Garage Tomb & Cleaned Up For Sale

A couple years ago I bought this 1964 T-Bird out of a garage from an old man's estate. I thought I had lost all of this footage until I rediscovered it on an old SD card. The car has since been sold, but enjoy the clean up!
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[@mikewatkins7618]

Ben, got a recommendation for when you first start messing with one of these acquisitions: Keep a spray can of some kind of thin lube handy, even WD-40. Use it on every hinge, convertible top pivot point, anything that moves. I have seen excellent condition hoods get buckled right across at the front of the hood hinges because the hinge pivots were rusted. Door hinges, trunk hinges, door and hood latch mechanisms. You may save some restorer later on having to hunt down some replacement parts.

[@specialks1953]

I am old and appreciated seeing the old school tank at the radiator. The car is cool and thanks for sharing what you had of it.

[@paulodisano502]

What a beautiful car. One of my all time favourite cars. 🇨🇦🇺🇸👍❤️

[@steves9905]

I'm a C3 owner, but i luuuuv this gen tbird. I helped a friend restore a 428 Town Sedan Landau, and the C3 vacuum lines got nothing on a tbird with A/C. Insanely complicated and just plain dense, but outstandingly awesome. Really strange that Ford went with such high production cost vehicles like the tbirds and lincolns of this era

[@gymshoe8862]

When that car was new it was a fabulous item from a long-lost era of the car culture. It could be brought back to its original glory and be perfect again. I wonder what became of it?

[@matthewweldy6848]

My uncle had a 66 T-bird that was silver/grey with a red interior and a landau roof. It was a beautiful car.

[@johnhoye4535]

love them t-birds

[@jeffmac3071]

If possible, it might be a great video to visit with the new owner to see the car.

[@dcallan812]

Its not in too bad condition from what we can see. 2x👍

[@jerrytate9394]

Love these cars that is rescued from their grave!!!! A+++

[@jaylozada3407]

👍

[@wkjeeping9053]

1987 if the Google search is right. I only spent 30 sec to search

[@subtle7hunder62]

Great content Ben. I’m a T-Bird fan for sure.

[@rustyrobinson8027]

That's my kind of car 👍

[@richardoswalt1009]

Cleaned up pretty good for no soap...😮

[@jayski9410]

I drove one of those "bullet birds" from New York to California and back during the 1960's. They got terrible gas mileage by today's standards but of course in those days gasoline was only about 30 cents per gallon. Did you notice it had a tilt out of the way steering wheel?

[@vettekid3326]

Those fourth gen T-Bird convertibles used much of the same top mechanism as the 57-59 Ford retractable had with a bunch of relays and limit switches and could be a bear to troubleshoot and get working.

[@kennypool]

Lets see the caddy paint 🎨

[@DavidBugea]

Dang! As usual I’m a day late or a dollar short. I’ve been looking for a T-bird convertible of that era to restore, and that one appears to have been nicely optioned. Oh, well…you did a nice job as always, Ben.

[@d.r.ledbetter2286]

When I was a young teen, my dad worked for a guy that had a 1963 Thunderbird convertible with the 390 TriPower that had sat in a barn for many years I tried to get it, but he just would not budge. I heard several years later that he had sold the car and I lost track of it.

[@jeremyrowe743]

Mike Mosher ran in 2004 , He was a Paris attorney running in the the 4th district on Republican card.

[@carguy4658]

Your wife would look super cruising in that one Ben!

[@McGruff2008]

A magic eraser will take that rust stain off of the hood.

[@ronaldwarren5220]

Always loved the wrap-around rear seats on that model. A local guy has one but it is painted an ugly brown color.

[@johnrussell3869]

Ford's bad on battery connection,must be clean and very very tight

[@specialks1953]

I appreciated more than the tank I mentioned but If I commented about All of it, I would sound overly enthusiastic and that would not be good. LOL

[@user-ht1xu4gv2u]

Drove in cousin 64. New as kid a tank for sure but she crashed it and tRADE FOR 66 MUSTANG

[@garycrawford2256]

Any idea on where the car is and how it's doing?

[@mogsstuff4858]

Is it sold yet?

[@TheCorvetteBen]

This one is, but I have another one, pretty much the same minus the. OST damage. Shoot me an email and I can send you pics [e-mail]

[@kenfrazier616]

hope you sold it right For someone else to enjoy it

[@rickallen6378]

How much did you get for it?

[@Ctrl-XYZ]

Its tomb. Not it's.

[@TheCorvetteBen]

Corrected