Distressed Ford Thunderbirds Photographed With Brumberger Thunderbird Camera

This shot of a 1992 Thunderbird in a Colorado Springs yard was the sharpest photograph taken by my Brumberger Thunderbird.

I'm pretty sure that no US-market camera in 1962 could rival the Brumberger Thunderbird on price, other than perhaps a Japanese Hit-type camera from a gumball machine.

This is a very rare 1988 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe, though it's a bit difficult to make out the special bumper badging.

This 1991 Thunderbird got picked over fairly thoroughly by junkyard customers.

You can't make out the drunk-driver-interlock in this blurry Brumberger Thunderbird photo, but it's there in the wreckage of a crashed 1990 Ford Thunderbird's interior. Either the interlock didn't work or the driver happened to be sober for the crash.

Since the camera itself was a Brooklyn-made unlicensed copy of a Chicago Cluster camera (itself almost certainly an unlicensed copy of some other cheap camera), Brumberger didn't need to worry about the borrowed Ford Thunderbird logo.

Yes, that car is (barely) recognizable as an early-1990s Thunderbird.

This 1967 Ford Thunderbird sat outdoors for decades before coming here.

Landau bars are cool.

There's also a '66 Thunderbird in this yard, but the Brumberger Thunderbird broke before I could capture its glory on film.