WCIF a reasonable condition 1956 Ford T-Bird in a drop top?
offers considered for a coupe too.
willing to pay up to USD 20,000
any color OK but red preferred
I’d try the western United States.
dammit TG You know I can’t import that into Taiwan. i want one here! right now!
thanks you for your considerations
I don’t know but I saw a '90 Toyota Super Zace the other day. Mint
Again, the question: can one ride one here?
Found a nice one on Yahoo, but it is not 1956:
tw.bid.yahoo.com/item/FORD-1965 … -f51719627
that’s only for the manual.
I guess it’s hard to find vintage cars because they just rust away here in Taiwan, or that people have appreciation for vintage cars.
Try to use the key word 古董車, 骨董車, 收藏車 or 老爺車… might get you something
easy-te.com.tw/k07_class.php … 3%E8%BB%8A
I think it would be near impossible to find a 1956 Ford Thunderbird in Taiwan. There was just no such market back in the 50s. The government controlled most aspects of the economy from sugar to salt to gas to alcohol and cigarettes. So there was no private sector to speak of. The Taiwanese elites had just been decimated. There were many American military personnels, but I doubt they would bother importing cars into Taiwan.
So most of the vintage cars you find here in Taiwan would be from the 60s or later.
Thought it was for a nice model he could put on his desk.
If i do get a nice model, i wont be mounting her on my desk. Way too public, this is a family office after all.
Seriously, i don’t expect a Thunderbird to have ever been imported into Taiwan, any year. and as someone else said above, it would have rusted away by now for sure if they had.
Taiwanese don’t tend to have an appreciation of cars from that era, anyway. Sigh.
[quote=“hansioux”] There were many American military personnels, but I doubt they would bother importing cars into Taiwan.
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This does not correspond to to any known intelligence info on any US military personnel in any non-combat theatres at any time.
Compare Japan, where US personnel were the main source of used cars until domestic production became significant. Compare Okinawa now.
So I would guess either (a) they weren’t allowed to bring them in and/or sell them(seems unlikely that US military would be subject to the current restrictions, but possible), or (b) the Taiwanese killed the cars, so none survived to the present day.
My money’s on (b).