May I get a decode, please?
May I get a decode, please?
Don't have a whole lot of Thunderbird literature so decoding is not as easy as Capri and Mustang. Do you have a buck tag for this car? How many miles on the odometer? What options do this car have?
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New to the fox body. Where would the buck tag be located? I can post a picture this evening. The car has air, tilt, cruise, power door locks, power windows, light group, 5.0 litre, aod, and possibly a few other things I don't know about. Mileage is 95,000, with no rust anywhere on the car body.
Buck tag will be somewhere on the radiator 'core support' (frame that radiator attaches to). I am very much familiar with the location that the Dearborn and San Jose assembly plants placed the tags on the Capri and Mustang but that location may not be the same for the other assembly plants that produced the other 9 Foxes. Your car was produced at the Lorain assembly plant. Your could ask other Cougar and Thunderbird owners where they found the buck tag on their Lorain-built cars.
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VIN
1FA = Ford vehicle manufactured in USA by Ford Motor Company
B = active belts, no airbags
P = passenger car
42 = Thunderbird 2-dr sedan
F = 5.0L V8 engine
3 = VIN check digit
B = 1981 model year
H = Lorain Assembly
141782 = 41,782nd 1981 Ford scheduled for production at Lorain Assembly
Door Tag
Date - 03/81 = March 1981 scheduled build
GVWR - 4414 lb/2002 kg = gross vehicle weight rating
Front GAWR - 2387 lb/1082 kg = front gross axle weight rating
Rear GAWR - 2045 lb/927 kg = rear gross axle weight rating
F0110 = 110 lbs front accessory reserve load
R0026 = 26 lbs rear accessory reserve load
Exterior Paint Colors - 8D = Bittersweet Glow
DSO - 74 = Seattle district sales office
Body - 66D = Thunderbird 2-dr sedan
VR - AW = unknown vinyl roof grain type (A), White vinyl roof color (W)
Mldg - 55W = unknown molding type/color
Int Trim - TZ = cloth Recaro seating (T), Vaquero interior trim color (Z)
A/C - A = air conditioner
R - 4 = AM/FM stereo radio
S - [blank] = no sunroof
Ax = Y = 3.08:1 axle ratio, non-locking differential
Tr - T = Ford automatic overdrive (AOD) transmission
EE = front springs
RR = rear springs
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[QUOTE=FoxChassis;1857601]VIN
1FA = Ford vehicle manufactured in USA by Ford Motor Company
B = active belts, no airbags
P = passenger car
42 = Thunderbird 2-dr sedan
F = 5.0L V8 engine
3 = VIN check digit
B = 1981 model year
H = Lorain Assembly
141782 = 41,782nd 1981 Ford scheduled for production at Lorain Assembly
Door Tag
Date - 03/81 = March 1981 scheduled build
GVWR - 4414 lb/2002 kg = gross vehicle weight rating
Front GAWR - 2387 lb/1082 kg = front gross axle weight rating
Rear GAWR - 2045 lb/927 kg = rear gross axle weight rating
F0110 = 110 lbs front accessory reserve load
R0026 = 26 lbs rear accessory reserve load
Exterior Paint Colors - 8D = Bittersweet Glow
DSO - 74 = Seattle district sales office
Body - 66D = Thunderbird 2-dr sedan
VR - AW = unknown vinyl roof grain type (A), White vinyl roof color (W)
Mldg - 55W = unknown molding type/color
Int Trim - TZ = cloth Recaro seating (T), Vaquero interior trim color (Z)
A/C - A = air conditioner
R - 4 = AM/FM stereo radio
S - [blank] = no sunroof
Ax = Y = 3.08:1 axle ratio, non-locking differential
Tr - T = Ford automatic overdrive (
Sorry. Using my phone and triple posted picture. Here's the buck tag for the T-bird
The buck tag a decoders are the same between all fox bodys pretty much. Radiator to firewall the cars are identical in built, minus cetain k members and firewalls.
2 1986 cougars (both 4 eyed and 5.0)
1 1987 cougar
This is the best I can do on the buck tag. I don't have a lot of Cougar or Thunderbird tags so I don't know a lot about the codes on them. The codes with a (?) are a guess. Let me know how I did. Thanks.
Buck Tag
0426 = body & paint rotations #0426
141782 = 41,782nd 1981 Ford scheduled for production at Lorain Assembly
S42B = Thunderbird 2-dr sedan
8D = Bittersweet Glow exterior paint color
AC = air conditioner
ED = exterior decor group (?) (half vinyl roof, RH remote mirror, pin stripes, luxury wheel covers, and wide bodyside moldings)
CT
AW = unknown vinyl roof grain type (A), White vinyl roof color (W)
OD
R = rocker panel moldings (?)
TZ = cloth Recaro seating (T), Vaquero interior trim color (Z)
74 = Seattle district sales office
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Pretty close. Full vinyl roof, no rocker mouldings. Keystone aftermarket wheels, but that won't show on the tags or data plate
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