Mahwah Bucks: they're not a sports team in New Jersey!
I was going through some of the VIN / Buck Tag / options research on this forum (most of which has been done by FoxChassis, who is working pretty hard to gather info on the various four-eyes, so this is both a shout-out and a bit of research to help him with that effort).
I noticed that there's not a lot of info on Mahwah, NJ-built 4-eyes.
This is probably because they were only in operation until 1980, and didn't build Mustangs or Capris. Foureyedpride is one of the few forums that is likely to have interest in the Mahwah cars at all.
So, if your car was built in Mahwah, NJ (second digit of VIN is E, so it would be 8E..., 9E..., or 0E...), I would love to see buck tags, door stickers, and any other documentation you've got. I will be compiling what I can and trying to correlate the various stampings of the buck tag, to the various build options. Eventually, I'd like to get it added to FoxChassis's buck tag decoder, if we can get enough tags in there.
The 1978-1980 "Other Early Foxes" are getting thinner and thinner on the ground, and I worry that if we don't gather this information soon we may not ever be able to. I would really appreciate any info I can get to contribute to this; and if I can offer anything in return (I've been trying to think of things) I'd certainly try.
For what it's worth; not just for our cars: the Mahwah buck tags are fairly unique compared to the other plants. The information on them is placed differently and the formatting is unlike most of the other plants; and since they closed in 1980 and most of their production was the bread-and-butter cars (full-sized Monarch, Granada, wagons, older LTDs, and so on) there aren't a lot of preserved buck tags compared to what we've seen in our community. This project might help out some of the even-less-well-represented old Ford owners out there.
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