The Box History to End all Box Histories

[Tiggie]

Do you want some good scans from my owners manual. It has a great drawing of the 79-87 Crown Vic dashes. I was reading my book to I noticed a cool feature. It says something about a garage door opener button on the visor?

Sure. I'll take about any pictures (Box related) or scans right now.

[Nathan in MI]

Something else I just noticed, Tiggie...at some point the color of the kilometer numbers and the needle on the 140 speedos changed; I'd assume the same holds true on 85 speedos. Not sure if you want to go into silly little details like that, but I figured I should point it out.

Mine ('89):


This is in Ryan's (Duceanahalf) '85 (don't know what year his came from; you'd have to ask him):




Like I say, I don't know if you figure that's important enough to add or not, but I figured I'd point it out in case no one else had noticed. If I had to guess, I'd say that it's probably a '79-'87 and '88-'91 thing.

[marquisman]

i think that would be an 87 to 88 thing!

[Blaze86Vic]

You mean 88-89. If so, my 84 cluster had light teal colored kilometers, and my new one is all white, wish I remembered what year it was from....

[Tiggie]

I'll add more detail, but here is the story for US cars (Others would have MPH and KM/H reversed):
- 1979 = White MPH, light orange needle and oranged KM/H
- 1980-1987 = White MPH, white needle, and blue KM/H
- 1988-1989 = White MPH and KM/H with flouresent orange needle

Someone fill me in on the 1990-1991 story? I'm thinking Black background with white letters and yellow pointer for CV. Silver background, black letters, and a ? pointer for GM.

I need info on the Linc ones too. Early Continental's and TC's got silver backgrounds and Mark's got Black? When did it the TC get the black background?

[Blaze86Vic]

So did you write anything about some police models having a different shift pattern? It's very rare, and nothing is written about it in any service manual, Ford or otherwise.

[marquisman]

You mean 88-89. If so, my 84 cluster had light teal colored kilometers, and my new one is all white, wish I remembered what year it was from....

yes i do, sorry, its been a long cold day, lol

[Nathan in MI]

So did you write anything about some police models having a different shift pattern? It's very rare, and nothing is written about it in any service manual, Ford or otherwise.

You mean about how I have a 2nd gear-only at the bottom instead of a 1st gear-only at the bottom?

[Tiggie]

You mean about how I have a 2nd gear-only at the bottom instead of a 1st gear-only at the bottom?

I think it was optional on the police models? Anyone got a year for me? There isn't much info on the early police models...

[Blaze86Vic]

Well I know it was on the 88-89, as the cluster I have now came with it, and Nathan has it. Not sure if it was available in the older years. Surely not with the C4s. But I don't know about the rest.

[marquisman]

did someone say C4?, mmmmhmmmhmm

[1987cp]

Don't the C4 cars all go D-2-1 like mine does with its 85mph speedo?

[marquisman]

yup, i have a C4 in my 81

[Tiggie]

Don't the C4 cars all go D-2-1 like mine does with its 85mph speedo?

I think so. The really early C4's from '64-'66 didn't. They used a D (which actually skipped first gear, so it was a two-speed), Green Dot D (all three forward gears used), and a L (for 1st gear only).

[marquisman]

i think he means in boxes, but i might be wrong