He learned about it last year while reading an interview with a former Ford employee.
He said he knew his car was the fourth off the line but was unaware that Ford had destroyed the other three vehicles years before. The man declined, but Bare left his card with the offer to buy it when the dealer was ready to sell. It was used by Lee Iacocca when he was a district manager for Ford in Philadelphia, Barner said.īare said he saw his car at a show in Atlantic City in the late 1970s and offered to buy it then from the Ferrari dealer who owned it. The history of Bare’s T-bird has been traced and it is believed the car remained in the Philadelphia area. Chuck Barner of the Lehigh Valley Thunderbird Club said the first Thunderbirds were dealer models used to incite interest for 1955, the first full production year.
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