![]() ![]() Inspired by Italy and birthed at DST, the Italien looked like a custom car because it was-part of the Custom Car Caravan, a Ford factory tour that visited the Autoramas and major dealers between 19. On the other was the rise of what would become Total Performance, a company-wide dedication to motorsport and horsepower, supported in no small part by Dearborn Steel Tubing (DST), which would build the company’s lightweight Thunderbolt drag-racers and many of its high-performance engine components. Ford, and admired the fashion and brio of Gianni Agnelli. One was the emerging and undeniable influence of all things Italian, as Henry Ford II attempted to acquire Ferrari, wooed the glamorous Italian woman who would soon become Mrs. The one-off Thunderbird Italien show car was born from the beginnings of two groundswells growing within the Ford Motor Company in the early 1960s. ![]()
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