This Thunderbird’s original $4,718 sticker price would be about $32,400 in today’s dollars, and about 10,000 of these base hardtops were made for 1968. Not a speck of corrosion anywhere underneath. No wonder the T-bird was sliding around so much.Īnd ah, look how rust-free it is. Of course there’s a fire, and so there are more shots of California‘s finest fighting it.Ĭheck out that bald front tire. He did have to duck to avoid the roof’s collapse directly over the driver’s seat. The helpfully placed barrels soften the rollover’s blow to the Thunderbird’s stunt driver. Worn-out sedans from the mid-’60s – in this case a Chrysler Newport – are magnets for “CHiPs” crashes, and this one is no exception in attracting the T-bird.įind a Chrysler Newport near you with BestRide’s local search. It leads our hero motorcycle cops to a gravel lot near a chemical storage facility.įrom its cornered-animal movements, you get the vibe that this will be the T-bird’s last scene.Īnd you’d be right. That’s some torque the Thunderbird has to spin the rear tire like that. The Thunderbird’s driver floors the go-pedal to continue the chase. In one of those “CHiPs” abrupt plot twists, the T-bird suddenly inserted itself by racing down an exit ramp and into the path of a decent Ford Galaxie.įind a Ford Galaxie near you with BestRide’s local search. The fire was extinguished, and the Thunderbird was set loose to create more mayhem in a different episode. There isn’t much of an impact, but the Thunderbird blocked off the bus’s front exit.Īnd then, for some reason, it caught fire. In its first appearance, the ‘Bird’s driver cuts a hard left into the path of a school bus.įind your own 1968 Ford Thunderbird with BestRide’s local search. At 360 gross horsepower, it would be just the ticket for mixing it up on L.A.’s freeways. One imagines it was chosen as an instigator car partly for its powerful V8 engine, perhaps the 429-cubic-inch Thunder Jet. Replace that front hubcap, and you’d have a fun and very presentable classic car.īut back in the mid-’70s, it was just a gas-guzzling used car, and so once this Thunderbird entered the automotive cast of “CHiPs”, its sheetmetal was not to remain straight for very long.
It’s a California car, so there’s no rust, and the body is straight. This Thunderbird would be a solid survivor today. That’s exactly what this 1968 Thunderbird was. Some cars on “CHiPs” were the instigators – they’d veer and lunge and generally make themselves a menace.
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