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S1 Ep306: Why Did Ford Keep Ruining the Thunderbird?

September 29, 2025 · 43 min

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This week on Past Gas — the Ford Thunderbird. What started as Ford’s slick Corvette fighter slowly morphed into a bloated land yacht, a boxy malaise disaster, and finally a sad retro comeback. The Bird kept reinventing itself… and somehow kept getting worse. So how did Ford’s coolest car turn into its biggest identity crisis?

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