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Old 12-20-2004, 09:30 PM
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428 Thunderbirds?

Did ford ever build a 1958 through mid-sixties Thunderbird with a 428 FE engine? The so called "square-birds. "
 
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as i recall the 428 did not come out untill 1965 with the advent of the 7 litre galaxie. the "squarebirds" were built from 1958 to 1960. in 1961 ford changed the styling.
 
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Old 12-21-2004, 08:38 AM
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that makes sense because the FE engine family was first used in '58 with the 332, I should have guesses it would take a few years to reach 428 cubes.
 
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Old 12-21-2004, 08:49 AM
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Not a 428, but there was a 430 CID engine available in the T-Birds of that era.
 




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