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    Default Door data plate for Thunderbird

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    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.

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    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

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    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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Size:  151.5 KB[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 (

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    Sorry. Using my phone and triple posted picture. Here's the buck tag for the T-bird

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    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.
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    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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