The two-tone Raven Black and Colonial White pleated-vinyl interior is a design classic featuring engine-turned aluminum dash and door inserts, a padded dash, Dial-O-Matic power seats, Town and Country AM radio and tinted glass. This expertly restored 1957 F-Code Thunderbird’s pleasing Colonial White paint is dramatically complemented with wide whitewall tires on glittering chromed-wire wheels with spinner center caps, full fender skirts and a color-matching porthole hardtop. Specially equipped with a Holley 4-barrel carburetor fed by a high-pressure fuel pump, a performance cam, modified combustion chambers, lower 8.5:1 compression and a dual-point distributor, the F-code generated an honest 300 HP and 320 lb-ft of torque, and when the option disappeared with the advent of the AMA racing ban in February 1957, a legend was born. Lacking adequate expertise in this sophisticated new fuel-delivery system, Ford countered with more conventional means, offering two versions of its new 312 CI Y-block V-8: the dual Holley 4-barrel E-Code rated at 270 HP and the F-code, featuring a Paxton-McCulloch VR-57 supercharger. Hershey immediately put his staff to work conceiving an entirely new car to compete with the new Chevrolet, and the resulting 1955 Thunderbird crushed the nascent Corvette in the market place with sales of 14,190 against Corvette’s pitiful 700 units.īut Ford soon found itself having to play catch-up, especially when the Rochester fuel-injected 1957 Corvette hit the streets. Ford Motor Company executives were shocked when photos of Chevrolet’s new two-seat sports car arrived at Dearborn headquarters in 1952.
One of 196 Ford Thunderbirds produced for 1957 and equipped with the F-code supercharged 312/300 HP V-8 engine, this Colonial White Thunderbird convertible was the recipient of a comprehensive restoration completed by marque specialists Hill's Classic Car in Racine, Ohio.
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