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Thread started 04/27/15 4:17am

Angelsoncrack

Prince's Ford Thunderbird

Yo. Has anyone got any pics of Prince's Thunderbird from in the Alphabet St video? Like the model? Prefereably high res? I need it for an image I'm creating so I can get all the details right. I'm re-designing the Alphabet st single cover. This is the crappy thumbnail version I did do you guys have an idea of what I'm doing:

I've tried searching but there seems to be a lot of different models of this car. I don't know the first thing about vehicles so I'm kinda stuck for finding this thing lol

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Reply #1 posted 04/27/15 6:26am

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Reply #2 posted 04/27/15 6:35am

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Reply #3 posted 04/27/15 6:39am

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This vehicle is a match to the one Prince used in terms of make, model, and year. Hopefully this pic is more clear then the video captures I offered.

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Reply #4 posted 04/27/15 7:24am

Angelsoncrack

Ahh thanks so much! I must have been going wrong because I was looking at the ones from around '88 and couldn't find any that matched lol Time to stock up on reference pics haha

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Reply #5 posted 04/27/15 12:29pm

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Averett said:

This vehicle is a match to the one Prince used in terms of make, model, and year. Hopefully this pic is more clear then the video captures I offered.


I think this depict the Fifth generation, but without double headlights :
https://www.wikiwand.com/....931971.29

...but evidence shows double headlights :



So it's precisely the 1969 model (69, what else? It's Prince we're talking about) :
http://www.curbsideclassi...underbird/

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Reply #6 posted 04/27/15 12:31pm

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So when he sings "1966" in Alphabet St., It's just for the consonants qualities of the "six", I guess.

The "six" of it, if you will.



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Reply #7 posted 04/27/15 5:19pm

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Angelsoncrack said:

Ahh thanks so much! I must have been going wrong because I was looking at the ones from around '88 and couldn't find any that matched lol Time to stock up on reference pics haha


I get that. lol
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Reply #8 posted 04/30/15 5:44am

Angelsoncrack

Okay guys here's my attempt at drawing the car. I'll colour it in later and work on the line depths but do you guys think its okay? I don't normally draw cars (or anything that isnt a human really lmao) on a daily basis so I wanted to challenge myself a bit.

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Reply #9 posted 04/30/15 6:47am

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Angelsoncrack said:

Okay guys here's my attempt at drawing the car. I'll colour it in later and work on the line depths but do you guys think its okay? I don't normally draw cars (or anything that isnt a human really lmao) on a daily basis so I wanted to challenge myself a bit.

Looks very good so far - you are so talented smile

Bonatoc's feedback does require that I provide you with a more accurate source photo being a 1969 model and all doh!

This would appear to impact the front of the car primarily. Hope this helps more so:

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