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Title: Reading the VIN??
Post by: misteramx on April 07, 2007, 06:13:19 PM
Did I decipher this VIN right, an '81 T Bird with 302??

1FABP42FXBH159339

I didn't think they offered the 302 in the T Bird in 1981, but I have been wrong before...
Title: Reading the VIN??
Post by: SSX on April 07, 2007, 07:46:36 PM
Yes
1FA=Ford
B=Seat Belts (Passive)
P=Passenger Car
42=T-bird
F=302 (5.0)
X=Internal
B=1981
H=Lorain, OH
1=Ford Sequence
59339=Assembly Sequence
Title: Reading the VIN??
Post by: misteramx on April 07, 2007, 08:25:13 PM
Thanks SSX, I must have mis read my book, maybe it was '82 they didn't offer the 302?
Title: Reading the VIN??
Post by: SSX on April 07, 2007, 09:10:14 PM
From my limited knowledge of the box birds the engine choices were:
1980: 255 V8 STD, 302 V8 OPT
1981: 255V8 STD, 302 V8 OPT, 200 I6 OPT
1982: 200 I6 STD, 232 V6 OPT, 255 V8 OPT