Family Thunderbird
Mike Mill has the best possible reason for having held onto his 1965 Thunderbird for nearly four decades.
“It belonged to my dad,” he explained. “It was the last car he owned and so it was a memory. Back after he passed away, I missed him and I thought, ‘I’d like to have something of his.’ It was all deteriorated from sitting and I thought, ‘I’ll get it all fixed up.’ And I was looking for a car to fix up. I was still living at home and my mother said, ‘Why don’t you take your dad’s old car and fix it up?’”
Personal luxury evolves
Even without the family connection, the car would’ve been a good choice as the Thunderbird by 1965 had comfortably settled into its place the Ford lineup. That hadn’t
