The change in size shed nearly ten inches of length and nine hundred pounds of weight. Instead, engineers moved the car to the company’s intermediate Ford LTD II and Mercury Cougar platforms. When Ford launched its seventh-generation Thunderbird, the new car no longer shared the Lincoln Continental’s full-size architecture. By clicking on the green dots in the graph below, you can navigate to each comparable car sold as a way to help you evaluate the price of the truck featured here:Īs a second data point, the Collector Car Market Review Online Tool reveals the seller’s ask falls between this guide’s #2 Very Good” estimate of $10,400 and its #1 “Excellent” appraisal of $15,600.

Once offered for $14,999,, the analytics and search engine for the collector car market, confirms the ask is at the higher end of the one-year rolling average of this guide’s summary for seventh-generation Ford Thunderbirds produced between 19. With only 6,500 original miles, the sole owner of this 1979 Ford Thunderbird Heritage Edition, originally listed in September 2022 on Craigslist in Chaska, Minnesota (Minneapolis), maybe the lowest mileage, ’79 TBird left. With another downsizing on the horizon for 1980, Ford marketers launched the Heritage Edition package on the 1979 Ford Thunderbird to send the seventh generation out with style. The styling of its unique wrap-over roofline would carry over in smaller versions of Ford automobiles such as the 1978–1983 Ford Fairmont Futura and the Mercury Zephyr Z-7 coupes, originally designed as Fairmont-based downsized Thunderbird proposals.

Aided by a $2,700 price drop from 1976, over 318,000 were sold in 1977 and 352,000 in 1978 (the best single sales year in Thunderbird history), followed by 295,000 in 1979. October 23, 2022, Update – We confirmed the seller of this “Classifind” deleted their listing, so we’re now able to call this one “SOLD!” While this one got away, please reach out either by email or call us directly if you’d like to be informed when we come across something similar.ĭespite being produced for only three model years, from 1977 through 1979, Ford’s squared-off, seventh-generation Thunderbird proved to be the brand’s most successful.

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