![]() ‘It’s an unusual car,’ says Kevin, matter-of-factly, once introductions have been made. I’ve always wondered if the experience of driving it matched up to that.’ We meet at a café in rural Essex and before long the unmistakable Bill Boyer-penned shape of a third-gen Thunderbird Convertible Sports Roadster cruises into view, with owner Kevin Moss at the controls. ![]() ‘When I was a kid all the space exploration was just starting off and the Thunderbird looked like a spaceship. ‘It’s a car I always thought I’d love to have a drive in,’ he says. Six decades later, we’re about to put Steve behind the super-sized steering wheel of that very car to find out if the real thing matches up to the hopes of a Corgi-wielding toddler. Meanwhile an American serviceman stationed in Germany was placing an order for a Thunderbird of his own, a real one this time. ‘When you’re pulling away you can feel how much power the car has got’ It was 1962, and none of it mattered to one young petrolhead nearly as much as his brand new Corgi model of an impossibly glamorous Ford Thunderbird. Kennedy and Khrushchev were facing off over nuclear missiles in Cuba, John Glenn was orbiting the Earth in Friendship 7, and a new beat group called The Beatles were taking the music charts by storm. Reader Steve Richardson gets to grips with a full-size Ford Thunderbird toy car ‘V8 burble, column shift – it’s a perfect piece of period Americana’ ![]() A scale-model Ford Thunderbird that Steve Richardson had as boy gave him a life-long yearning to try the real thing.
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