At some point along the way an owner swapped out the passenger seat and dash for ones from a teal car – they blend in pretty well and I didn’t even notice this at the auction. The upholstery is soft and pliable and not sun-baked, which leads me to believe that the car was always garaged before going into storage. The blue interior is very clean, and I put in a new carpet after I bought it. When the family business and property was sold last year, I bought it at the auction. It was then purchased from them by a man in Lewistown, Montana in the early 1980’s, but he never got around to it and just kept it in the pole barn. It appears to have started out as an Oregon car (it comes with its Oregon license plate), and was then sold to a couple in Billings, Montana in the 1970’s. The car came with a cache of papers that document its history, which will go to the new owner. Having found another project in the meantime, I’ve decided to offer it for sale. I bought it at an auction last year, got it running and cleaned up, but then got distracted by other things and didn’t get back to it until now. The license plates still have their 1986 tags on them, and it still rides on early 70’s bias ply tires, just as it went into storage. This highly-original T-Bird was pulled out of a Montana pole barn in 2016, where it had been stored for 30 years.
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