Personal Luxury: 1968 Ford Thunderbird Landau
While many American cars focused on the same customers throughout the years, Thunderbird was one that changed with the times. The Mustang had come on the scene by the mid-sixties, so Thunderbird could focus on customers wanting personal luxury, and aimed for the same customers as the Buick Riviera and Oldsmobile Toronado. With its 1967 restyle, the convertible was canceled and a 4 door Landau sedan model arrived in its place. Here is a 1968 Ford Thunderbird Two Door Landau for sale here on Craigslist in Littleton, Colorado. Thanks to Barnfinds reader Ikey H. for bringing it to our attention.
The major difference in a two-door hardtop and a two-door Landau was that the Landau included a vinyl roof with special landau bars. The seller is the second owner of this car and describes it as very good condition with no rust. The car was always pampered and has always been garaged. The seller says the car has T-Bird wire wheels, not wire wheel covers.
The interior has optional Brougham saddle leather covering the flight bucket seats and the driver’s side is power operated. This one also appears to have the unique tilt-away steering wheel. From the only interior picture, it looks to be in good condition.
No engine pictures are provided, but the car has the 429 Thunderjet engine with C-6 Transmission and runs great. The car has 105,000 miles. Those full-width taillights include the sequential turn signals that Thunderbird had from 1965 to 1971. The only thing the car needs is air conditioning/heater repair, and the needed parts are included. For $8,000, this could be your next ride.
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Comments
Great car, I wish I had a place to put it.
Hey look, a unicorn! Really. Assuming it’s really rust free that’s a nice car at a fairish price.
You need to get these in the sedan version—the only contemporary car with suicide doors besides the Continental.
A friend had one in high school. Always wanted one. Even though my 1967 eldorado with 472 ate his lunch several times. Aaah the good old days in high school.
You replaced your original 429 with a 472?
Beautiful car, and those wire wheels look awesome on it. This would definitely be one to drive and enjoy while continuing to preserve. Although it’s one of the few cases where I prefer the sedan due to its suicide doors, I would definitely be proud to own this coupe and that sweet 429CJ… even in white.
CanuckCarGuy, I have to admit that from the outside the suicide door version looks better, but for comfort the two door is better.
The back seat wraps around the passengers on the two door, but on the four door it is a flat seat.
I’m not a white car guy either, never liked that color, thought it made cars look like refrigerators going down the road. But the rest of the car is stunning and I would buy it if I had a place for it.
Dictionary definition of unique – “…being the only one of its kind.”. Not completely true of the swing-away column in the ‘Birds. 1964 and 1965 Galaxies had the option, too, not sure about ’63 Fords. Since the big ’65 and ’66 Fords used identical dashes (except for some trim items), I have a ’65 dash with the track for the s-a column stashed away for my ’66 7 Litre hardtop.
This is when they started getting big in size, but I always thought they were very cool looking. Didn’t really care for the 1970 and 71 birds beak front end.
I love this year car and also love thr 4 door model
Example of Ford Bloat.
Same thing happened to Mustang and Couger.
Ford’s idea of Super Sizing cars that started out as Sports cars ended up as Tanks
These have neck-snapping acceleration with the standard 390 engine–I had a ’67 briefly. Can’t imagine what a 429 would do. This is still the era of 10 to 1 compression engines.
Really believe the 67-68 were a class act above some of the early 61-63 and 64-66 models….with the 66 landau being kinda neat of that series. Price not to bad – think it could be had a little lower.
I had 3 of these ,2 1969 and a 1968. The Thunderjet 429 are excellent engines and moved these big deuce coupes right along. My time with these was the mid 80’s I could run with and even pull away from most anything Detroit was building at that time, especially after 120 mph. Some nights I could kick down at 110 mph and top out at 140. Those were the days ,98 cents for a gallon of gas and all the used Good Year Eagle gts’ I could cook.