Wing and A Prayer
Jack Williams has already had a Ford Thunderbird swiped from him by a family member. Twice, in fact.
It’s a pretty good bet that after reviving his love affair with the 1966 Thunderbird that he bought new as a teenager, he’s not going to let it happen again.
The Neenah, Wis., resident began his long romance before he was even legal driving age and it endured through a harrowing three-year combat tour in Vietnam. “I bought a ’56 T-Bird from a preacher that had wrecked it when I was 15,” recalls Williams. “I spent a year fixing that up. It had a 312 V-8; it was a Thunderbird and I really liked it. Then my brother stole in one night and took it out and wrecked it. He wrapped it around a pole.
“I fell in love with the Thunderbirds back then.”
A couple years later, Williams walked into a Ford dealership in Sandy, Utah, where the family lived and decided he needed a new Thunderbird. He was still a teenager and headed for a hitch in the Army, and the salesman at the dealership was apparently a little skeptical of Williams’
