1965- How many are still on the road?

[Mr. Kelly]

How many 65 Special Landaus-T-Bird’s are still on the road in 2021 ?

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[biddle]

Use the 4 digit model year in the subject on future posts. This aids with site searches. Updated.

 

[Gary Tayman]

I think the best answer to this is simply, I don't know.

It seems it was not that long ago these 1964-66 Flair Birds were still in service, having outlasted plenty of other cars of that era. But sometime during the 1990's they disappeared suddenly, then just as suddenly they became collectible classics. I think we have a strange combination of things with these cars. First, they had a high level of desirability from the moment they were new, and when they went out of service many of them got put in garages or barns because they're "classics." But they are also expensive cars to restore, so in the barns they remain, with high hopes of someday gathering up the money it would need to restore them. So how many of these cars are survivors? A LOT. How many are on the road? A smaller percentage of that lot. As time goes by we see these barn finds exposed; someone brings home a new project that the original family finally decided to let go of. So as time goes by the number of drivable cars will probably increase. But how many are out there? Who knows. Then, how many are Landaus, convertibles, or such? Np way of telling. This seems to be true of the Flairbirds, more so than cars made either earlier or later. Strange group of cars.

 

[philchili]

How many 65 Special Landaus-T-Bird’s are still on the road in 2021 ?

I have a prairie bronze convertible and a friend in McKinney TX has a special landau that he and his father have owned for over 40 years.

 

[BobS]

I have a prairie bronze convertible and a friend in McKinney TX has a special landau that he and his father have owned for over 40 years.

Got an all original Special Landau, rust and all up here in the Michigan rust belt

 

[Daniel Riseborough]

That's the thing with the dmv they don't share information across all states, I can tell you that in the UK I did the same research for my 64 tbird there's only 24 in the country, 18 only on the road. Which is always nice to tell people.