Manufacturing Industry
T-Birds stick with steel.(Ford Motor Co. uses steel in new Thunderbird)(Brief Article)
Purchasing, October, 2000
The body-in-white (chassis) for Ford Motor's new two-door Thunderbird car due out next year will be steel, and will not make as much use of aluminum as originally considered. Reason: Per-pound cost of steel is better than the light metal for limited-edition specialty cars, according to Ford sources.
The Dearborn, Mich., company is planning to produce at least 40,000 of the new specialty cars annually at its Wixom, Mich., assembly plant. Designed off the same platform that is used in the Lincoln LS sport sedan, the new Thunderbird will carry some of the styling features of T-Birds in the mid-1950s and early 1960s. The Budd Co. of Troy, Mich., will produce the steel door panels and assemblies, but Ford will fabricate most of the other body components and...
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