Used Ford Thunderbird for Sale near Elkhorn, NE

The last of the 'Box Bird' Thunderbirds rolled off the line in 1982. The guys in Dearborn were well into the planning for a total redesign, given the underwhelming market demand for the square, underpowered version of this American classic, so the '82 Thunderbird saw only a few minor changes from the previous model year. Ford had been a little confused about what direction to give the T-Bird brand identity, it seemed: it had taken the car from its early glory years as a classic sport performance model to a 1970s focus on size, comfort, and luxury to a 1980s re-envisioning as a fairly ordinary mid-sized sedan. The early '80s 'Box Bird' didn't have the sexy power of the classic 'Bullet Bird' or the massive land-yacht comfort of the 'Big Bird'. It just wasn't much of a Thunderbird at all. If you looked at the car on its own merits, though, not as an unworthy successor to a great tradition, it was a pleasant enough sedan. The 1982 Ford Thunderbird had good, solid unibody construction, a plush, comfortable interior, and an array of what were then the latest thing in electric bells and whistles (flip-up headlights, power windows, digital readouts, and other nifty little options). Fuel efficiency was another point in the 'Box Bird' models' favor: the 4-cylinder engine got a thrifty 32 mpg highway, with a solid 30 mpg highway from the V-6 and 25 mpg highway from the V-8. Still, who was going to buy a TBird for its fuel efficiency? The '82 Ford Thunderbird just wasn’t hot enough to live up to its name.