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negusm
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| Sandy wrote: | | So, 'ya - I was tryig to kid Mike. |
I suspected so. 
I like to bring up these things as they are fun to discuss. I doubt they will ever lead to much except maybe a greater "awareness" about them.
-Mike
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Euro#13
Joined: 30 Aug 2004
Posts: 196
Location: Michigan
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, that makes me feel better, I was getting a little worried there for a minute and thought you were starting to loose it there. 
Looks like it could have used one of these: 
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Tom S.
Joined: 28 Aug 2004
Posts: 264
Location: Farmington, MN
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Euro#13 wrote: | Between the sales brochures, the data books, and even the window stickers, it seems like the discrepancies are never ending and 20+ years after the vehicle was produced it makes it a little difficult to prove one way or the other what was original or not.
Sandy's coupe being an exception of course......... 
Here is a perfect example of a possible problem, which is actually a true story that happened at the FLM dealership I used to work at.
They sold two ’93 F-150 Lighting’s for that first year of SVT, one to me (the Red one) and another to a local man in his late sixties. (the Black one).
About a week after he bought his Black Lighting, he was back at the dealership complaining that he had been ripped off. The window sticker on his truck clearly stated that it was to have chrome side mirrors and color keyed side moldings and his truck had plain black mirrors and NO side moldings. This of course was because the Lighting had all of the standard equipment of an XLT package, and the window sticker listed it that way.
For the typical performance buyer that the truck was marketed to this “error” was completely understandable. But this guy bought this truck to use it as a truck, because it had the most powerful engine you could get in a ˝ ton 2wd truck, and it came with a 4:10 traction-lock rear. It would be perfect for towing his trailer.
He was a long time customer and to keep him happy, they swapped out the black mirrors for chrome ones, and installed the side moldings on his truck at no charge. To this day, he still believes that it should have come that way because the window sticker said so.
Fast forward to 15 years later and the truck finds a new buyer who wants to restore it and he is a little confused because of this and since he bought it from the original owner’s family it must be correct. Hey, even the reproduction window sticker that he bought shows them on there so it must be correct, or maybe he has one of those exclusive 1 of 1 “production error” trucks. It all makes sense now, this truck must have been built on the production line this way because why would someone have ever gone though the trouble of changing those items to chrome in the first place.
Of course the last paragraph is completely hypothetical, but I think you can easily see how this could happen with someone trying to restore a vehicle and they have this kind of scenario to deal with.
Just some food for thought.
Brent |
My brothers early '94 Lightning that he bought new had the wrong shade of black. Sounds funny and improbable but his truck was a metallic black rather than just plain black and he had a hell of a time with the bodyshop when it came time to fix crash damage. 
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'95 SVT Cobra--sold
'89 Oregon State Police SSP Mustang--sold
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Sandy
Joined: 26 Aug 2004
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Location: Northern New Jersey GSP Exit 148
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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""and thought you were starting to loose it there""
I lost it a loooong time ago! 'Bout when Fred Flintstone Was
Vice President!
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1990 Final Car prior to the 12 Silver Anny Editions
1990 Silver Pearl Anny Edition
1986 Coupe Full Pkg #109 of 114.
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