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Base seats in an 87 Sport

Another weird one, if you wanted power recliners in a Sport, you had to get the base seats. Personally, I'd much rather have the TC/Sport seats.
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Base seats in an 87 Sport

Reply #1
The pain in the ass of not being able to recline the seats with a dead battery alone offset any benefit you might get by not having to pull a lever instead of pressing a button.
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Base seats in an 87 Sport

Reply #2
Quote from: White85GS;445693
Another weird one, if you wanted power recliners in a Sport, you had to get the base seats. Personally, I'd much rather have the TC/Sport seats.

I thought all the '87 Sports used the base seats??? One I used for parts when I did the 5.0 swap on my TC had base seats and didn't recline... All the '88 Sports I've seen had the TC style seats...

Base seats in an 87 Sport

Reply #3
It's a bass-ackwards deal...'87 Sport: base seats, TC style door panels. '88 Sport, TC seats, basic door panels.

Shoulda made the Sports with the HO engine, and the Stang's AOD. Throw in the 3.55 rear from the TC...

shagers.
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Base seats in an 87 Sport

Reply #4
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It's a bass-ackwards deal...'87 Sport: base seats, TC style door panels. '88 Sport, TC seats, basic door panels.

Shoulda made the Sports with the HO engine, and the Stang's AOD. Throw in the 3.55 rear from the TC...

shagers.

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Base seats in an 87 Sport

Reply #5
Quote from: ThunderbirdSport302;445699
It's a bass-ackwards deal...'87 Sport: base seats, TC style door panels. '88 Sport, TC seats, basic door panels.

Shoulda made the Sports with the HO engine, and the Stang's AOD. Throw in the 3.55 rear from the TC...

shagers.

You wanna tell us how you really feel??? :hick:

Should have been five lug and had the larger brakes as well(LSC without the air bags)... Real meter movement type gauges like was in '87 Stang would have been nice, the bi-metal POS suck royally...

Had Ford not had a hard on to switch to the SN 95 chassis, might have happened, at least partially... During a road test Hot Rod suggested the '87 Sport needed a HO, Ford told them not likely going to happen... If they'd have tossed a 5-speed in, Turbo Coupes would have truly been rare, Sport would have out sold the TC probably 3 to 1... As it is Sports no doubt had less sales than TC...

BTW, my '87 Sport had the base door panels same as '88...

Base seats in an 87 Sport

Reply #6
I also wish the 91-97 Town Cars would have also gotten the 32V Intec 4.6.
Current: 1986 Thunderbird, 105k 3.8/C5, 2 tone  Midnight Wine/Medium Taupe, wing windows, wire wheel covers.


Former: 1985 Cougar GS 115k Oxford White/Regatta Blue, 5.0, full console, 14" 8 hole aluminum T-Bird rims, Edelbrock valve covers.

Base seats in an 87 Sport

Reply #7
My 87 Sport had base seats with no power recline, and it had the base door panels as well. The only car I ever owned with the "deluxe" panels was the 87 TC parts car. This was also the only car I'd ever owned with the TC-style seats, which I swapped into my 88 base Bird (on non-power bases, but with retained power lumbar). I was gonna swap the door panels in too, but after removing them from the TC doors and seeing how complicated and fragile they were I decided to stick with the base panels.
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