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A no option car

Reply #15 –
It's right there in Gray cloth, a no-tilt column , first one I've ever seen.

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Reply #16 –
My '85 didn't have tilt, and come to think if it, I think my 88 Cougar didn't have it either.

My '85 also didn't have intermittent wipers. That's gotta be a rare one.
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1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

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Reply #17 –
This car and the Med Red V6 I posted a few months ago both had non-intermittent wipers. Those are the only 2 I've ever seen, so yeah it's rare!

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Reply #18 –
Wow is that ever plain jane thought mine was hardly optioned
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1988 Mercury Cougar LS 5.0L AOD 2.73 :cougarsmily:
1993 F150 XLT 5.8L E4OD 3.55

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Reply #19 –
My 83 doesn't have intermittent wipers.
One 88

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Reply #20 –
Quote from: CougarSE;164512
My 83 doesn't have intermittent wipers.


Yeah but it doesn't have any power either... ;)  LOL. 

My '85 didn't have them too.

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Reply #21 –
Quote from: Aerobird Motorsports;164153
Yeah it's definitely strange. The radio, heater, and license plate bracket were all $0 so that accounts for them. I don't know whether or not it has A/C, or whether A/C cost $. The no-tilt is something I didn't even know existed, which is pretty cool. The passenger mirror missing is fairly uncommon as well.


I'm not which heater you’re referring to. Are you talking about an engine heater? If so, that was a charge option.
Air conditioning was standard equipment.
A single driver side manually controlled mirror was standard. Dual electric mirrors were an option. (you could not get dual manual mirrors)
This is all pertaining to a base Thunderbird. If it were a LX model, the tilt wheel, and dual electric mirrors would be standard equipment.
Same with the delay wipers, optional on a base car, standard on the LX model

Brent
:cougarsmily:
1985 Mercury Cougar XR-7 - 5-speed 
One of 1,246 built

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Reply #22 –
Quote from: BCA;164559
(you could not get dual manual mirrors)


Nope, I present to you, dual manual mirrors:

http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com/showthread.php?t=12577&highlight=optioned

And I was speaking of the in-car heater. I've seen at least 3 84-84's with no a/c from the factory, but I have no idea if a/c was standard on 85-88's.

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Reply #23 –
A/C was optional on 85-88's in Canada. Pretty sure it was standard in the USA. Guess Ford figured that if we Canucks wanted to get cold we'd climb back into our igloos.

Also, the engine block heater and rear defrost were standard equipment in some areas, Eastern Canada being one of them.
2015 Mustang GT Premium - 5.0, 6-speed, Guard Green - too much awesome for one car

1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

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Reply #24 –
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Nope, I present to you, dual manual mirrors

Nope, as Brent said, you could NOT get factory dual manual mirrors.

Ford provided kits to add things that were deleted from factory cars. If you had the radio delete (with block-off plate for the radio hole and the antenna hole), Ford made available an antenna kit using OEM parts. Same went for the passenger side mirror. That car originally had only a driver's side mirror and a block-off plate on the passenger side, and then the aftermarket Ford mirror kit was installed on the passenger side sometime after purchase. Whenever you see two manual mirror adjusters in a car, that is the ONLY possibility.

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Reply #25 –
Aaaaaaah I see said the blind man to his deaf dog :hick: Well there's a factory added double-manual mirror then :hick:

I'd imagine that the no-A/C 83-84's I've seen were either A: from Canada, or B: sols like that up here in the arctic tundra anyways. It was an 83 TC, an 84 TC, and an 84 elan 5.0, and I remember the Dark Blue elan having rear defrost.

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Reply #26 –
My 86 didn't have tilt, or a passenger side mirror. aslo didnt have any power anything, no rear window defroster... And alot of things I can't thing of.

The only two options I figured on my car was the 5.0(I was told that a/c was standard on the 5.0 in the usa...) and some sort of towing package, only because I had the 10" rear brakes. Other then that, no options that I can think of.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
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Reply #27 –
That T-Bird's interior is a match to my '86 Cat which is a pretty close match to Haystacks car.
Mine has no rear defroster, no passenger mirror, no cruise, no tilt, manual mirrors, manual seats, manual locks, no map lights just a flat square dome light.

It just has an optional 5.0, 7.5 Traction lock and the TRX package.

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Reply #29 –
Quote from: Aerobird Motorsports;164885
Mmmm, no-option 5.0 Cougars... :D
I didn't say my car was no option ;)
Just that the interiors matched.

I will clearly admit that I don't think I've ever seen an '87-88 car that stripped. Usually I only see it on '83-86s.