This part doesn't make sense: "When he’d first opened Alamo Airways 17 years earlier, George Crockett had deputized his own fiesta-red Ford Thunderbird converti

This part doesn't make sense: "When he’d first opened Alamo Airways 17 years earlier, George Crockett had deputized his own fiesta-red Ford Thunderbird convertible..." 17 years before 1958 would be 1941. But the first Thunderbird was produced in 1954.