
CTCI Welcomes You to the 2021 Convention in Cybird-Space!
All Kinds of Virtual Fun Fun Fun in 2021!!
Please enter your Thunderbird into the 2021 Concours, Specialty, Touring Event, Photo Opp & Trophy Categories!
This is all about Pride (not Prize) and celebrating our favorite cars with our favorite friends (and new friends!).
We hope your Chapter will take on our Event Touring Category challenges and send in your best individual and group photos. We are also looking for Music Video Submissions (original or found) that feature our favorite little birds!
If you have suggestions for new categories, send them in!
If your Chapter wants to have a page all their own to showcase your club, just ask!
CTCI is here to get you through a challenging year with social distancing and fun fun fun with our Fabulous Thunderbirds!!
When you register to participate, if you do not receive an email right away from WordPress to set your log in password, please let me know and I will manually set a password for you. Send request emails to: [email protected]
Chapter Events
January – Snow Birds

Don’t eat the yellow snow!
winter storm just dumped 10" of snow on my car. It needs to be painted anyway, so not a big deal. The garage is filled with another project I didn't finish before winter.........
Chapter Events
February – Love Birds
Chapter Events
March – Irish Birds
Galactic Virtual Convention Recent Entries
Two November Birds
Thunderbird Reflection
This was COVID Boredom
Santa Cruz, CA Surfing Museum
Brian Carron
Pitt Birds at the PVGP 2015
Each July the Pitt Birds has its annual picnic at the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix. In 2015 the Pitt Birds invited Thunderbird owners from around the country to join in the festivities. We had a grand display of 78 Thunderbirds on the third fairway adjacent to the...
Thunderbird at the Biltmore Mansion, Asheville, NC
Hot Rod Thunder
Thunderbirds drag racing
Charlie’s Green Bird, Charlie Hensley, #12421
Green Bird's first parade, with Charlie, was the 2002 Oak Ridge Christmas Parade. A temporary hitch was installed and the 8-10 yr-old Boys Club Baseball A's rode in style in the trailer. A Mustang radio, with CD and cassette players, makes for some fine rock and role...
Traveling on RT 66
The world’s sweetest little car!!
Originally owned by my father, this car in 1974 replaced a 56 that we owned and in 2014 i became the steward of this fine automobile. It's amazing how spending money on a daily driver is painful but with this little bird it is pure joy!!
My Battlebird on the Wildwood NJ beach in a recreation of its record run on Daytona Beach in 1957
Don’t eat the yellow snow!
winter storm just dumped 10" of snow on my car. It needs to be painted anyway, so not a big deal. The garage is filled with another project I didn't finish before winter.........
Don’s 57 with club trailer at Harkness State Park Waterford. Ct
This is Don Lemieux's 57 Bird coupled up to the clubs support trailer, hand built by John St Hilaire at an annual fall picnic at Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford, Ct
My Twins
1955 Bird in the Bush
This 1955 was purchased in 2015. It had been left unattended in a garage for the previous 10 years. Sold because of health reasons, I restored the mechanical works and had the paint buffed out and replaced the upholstery.
Our former Retro-bird, on a Spring day in a local park
Our 2003 Retro-Bird, on a Spring day in Tawasentha Park, in Guilderland, NY ... my wife and owned this beautiful very low mileage beauty, and recently sold it to her sister and her husband. It's still "in the family"
Cruising the “Queen of American Lakes”, Lake George, NY
I acquired this beautiful 1957 Ford Thunderbird from Bob Bailey, of Guilderland, NY in Sept. of 2020. We are enjoying this beauty!! My wife and dated in high school in the late 1960's and this was always our favorite car. We finally got ours!
Won Top Award For My Hometown’s 150 Anniversary Parade
My hometown of Morris, NY, celebrated it's 150 Anniversary as a Village ... with a COVID limited parade of floats, organizational floats, firetrucks, antique tractors, and antique and antique / collector cars. I had recently acquired this beautiful 57 Thunderbird,...
Jeff Grindrod
Gray Lady
Club 40th anniversary celebration photo
Dave Aiken’s Old Blue
Old and New – Red White and Blue!
The '57 has been in the family since 1968, the '56 since 1990, and the'03 since March 2020.