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The Thunderbird Early Concepts

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Retired Ford Designer James Powers occasionally takes on projects such as the design concepts shown here, which were done in 1996 for Jack Telnack, Ford Design VP, in the early stages of development of the new Thunderbird. These designs are

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The Thunderbird Designer

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If you’ve ever marveled at the fifties futurism of the “nuclear-powered” Ford Nucleon or admired a 1961 Thunderbird, you’ve seen the work of James R. Powers. If you were fascinated by Revell’s see-through model kit of a V-8 engine, you

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