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Reply #30
Quote from: Thunder Chicken;207059
Interesting.

Both my '87 Sport and my '88 T-Bird, both with porno-red interiors, had the two-tone dash and I didn't even realize it. Everything else was bright red, but the dashes were definitely two-tone. You can see it in the pics below.

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What's the source of that overhead console?
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Reply #31
'94 Explorer. The exterior temp sensor is from an '00 Chevy Blazer (the same company makes consoles for Ford and Chev so sensors are interchangeable).
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Reply #32
I think you need to paint that console. now you have 3 reds in your car.
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Reply #33
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My old '85 'Bird was a medium grey (not as dark as raven, but not light grey either) and it was one-tone.

Carm, that would have been Charcoal Grey, which would make sense then why it would be just one color. I'm not sure about any changes in interior colors for Canada...never found anything to list that, although to be fair I've never seen anything listed for the contrary. More than likely it's a model-year thing rather than a country thing.

It is difficult to keep up with the small changes that Ford made on these cars from year to year. It's no surprise if people just don't know things or get confused. Hell, there's only about a handful of people here who really know differences to spot them and also give a  about them at the same time. :)

GREYS
Charcoal Grey spanned from 1983-85. That's two different interior styles.
Oxford Grey (light) was 1983-85. Two interior styles.
Smoke was 1986-88. Two body styles, replaced Oxford and Charcoal greys.
Raven was Turbo Coupe only, 1987-88, almost black in color.

REDS
Canyon (Medium) Red was from 1983-86. Again, two interior styles.
Scarlet (aka Porno) Red was 1987-88 only, replaced Canyon Red.

TANS
Desert Tan was 1983-84 only.
Sand Beige was 1985-88. Two body styles, replaced Desert Tan.

How about these for oddballs...be glad you're not hunting for interior panels for these...

BROWNS/TANS
Walnut (brown) was 1983 only. Thank God. ;)
Wheat was 1984 only. Creamy yellow.
Taupe was 1986-87 only. Two different body styles. Very nice color, somewhat underappreciated, but a real stunner in person.
Cinnabar was 1988 only. Just one model year. It replaced Taupe and was more of an intense Taupe brown. Exceptional color, especially with a one-year-only Rose Quartz exterior.

It's much easier to keep track of the blues...each was only two model years, none spanned an interior change or body style change:

BLUES
Academy Blue - 1983-84
Regatta Blue - 1985-86
Shadow Blue - 1987-88

Unfortunately this was the 1980's, where browns, blues and burgundys ruled the interior scene. Some of the colors were strange, looking back, but most have held up quite well actually. At the very least, we can be proud that we never had boring interior colors. Three different greys, three different blues, a very nice tan (Sand Beige), later on an almost-black (Raven)...pretty nice variety, and worlds beyond what's available today in most vehicles. You're lucky to get anything beyond tan, black and grey now.

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Reply #34
Daminc: The console actually matches the headliner almost perfectly - it's the camera flash that makes it look brighter. You're right, though, I do have to paint it - I'm switching the interior over to black :D

Eric: I know of two discrepancies in your colour list, maybe a Canada thing:

1) I know where there's an '88 LX (VIN code 62) with floor shifter and TC seats with the raven interior - I've been trying to buy it as a parts car for nearly a decade (it's got a full body kit on it). The car is two-tone silver on the outside and raven inside, and the interior is MINT. The body is ROTTEN though, and it's sitting sunken into the ground behind a house just outside of Dartmouth, NS. I found the car when I bought my 10-holes from the guy. He won't sell that God-ed car, though - claims he's gonna restore it, even though it's well beyond restoration

2) I test drove an '88 V6 Cougar with a brown interior a few years ago (actually it had to have been half a decade ago or more, since I bought my 88 T-Bird in March '03). It was a V6 car with console (no shifter) and was two-tone brown and beige outside. It was definitely brown (not beige) inside, and I really liked it. The rest of the car was ola, mainly because the whole right side of the car had been sideswiped, but the inside was very nice.

It's odd - while most manufacturers only offer beige, black or tan nowadays, Ford offered a large assortment of colours right into the mid 90's. I've seen MN12's with green (!), brown, beige, blue, red, light grey, and dark grey interiors.

I couldn't believe my eyes the time I saw an MN12 Cougar with the green leather interior a few years ago (it was absolutely stunning, with a deep forest green metallic exterior), and you often see all of these colours available in Lincolns. I think the green surprised me because I'd never seen it in a Fox and couldn't believe that Ford would reintroduce the colour in the 90's.
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Reply #35
Quote from: Thunder Chicken;207115
Ford offered a large assortment of colours right into the mid 90's. I've seen MN12's with green (!), brown, beige, blue, red, light grey, and dark grey interiors.

I couldn't believe my eyes the time I saw an MN12 Cougar with the green leather interior a few years ago (it was absolutely stunning, with a deep forest green metallic exterior), and you often see all of these colours available in Lincolns. I think the green surprised me because I'd never seen it in a Fox and couldn't believe that Ford would reintroduce the colour in the 90's.

ive seen 95-01 style explorers with the green interior too; and 95-97 rangers with blue. both rarely seen, but very nice indeed. problem is they are rare cause people dont order them, so in turn manufactures stop offerin them. tan, grey, black...bleh.
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Reply #36
I see you moved your Cruise control functions Carm;)

Very Nice!  How hard was the wiring for that?
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Reply #37
The cruise button relocation was easy. One wire in the column had to be cut (I believe the blue one) and rerouted to the new button spot, two had to be spliced into (a purple and a black - but not cut, else the horn wouldn't work) with new branches to the new buttons. I've since moved 'em back though - I got tired of the aftermarket wheel and installed a stock TC one.

Actually, when I moved 'em it was only out of necessity - the slip rings in my original wheel exploded, forcing me to install the aftermarket wheel to begin with :hick:
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Reply #38
Carm, I don't have Ford books for 1987-88, only Lincoln-Mercury, so I can't confirm Raven. It's possible that it was in other T-Birds but I remember reading somewhere that it was supposed to be Turbo Coupe-only. Brent could confirm that.

The brown interior on the '88 was definitely Cinnabar. It's a gorgeous color. Much different from the 1983 brown. ;)

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Reply #39
Thanks for the info on the cruise wires Carm ;)

I finally found a sttering wheel from an '85 Mustang and am deciding whether to move the buttons or do a swap which involves a stalk type style cruise control...


As far as the green interior in am MN-12...My brother in laws recently departed '95 Cougar 4.6 had that very color.  Everyone who saw it for the first time always was amazed by it:burnout:
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Reply #40
Quote from: EricCoolCats;207179
Carm, I don't have Ford books for 1987-88, only Lincoln-Mercury, so I can't confirm Raven. It's possible that it was in other T-Birds but I remember reading somewhere that it was supposed to be Turbo Coupe-only. Brent could confirm that.

The brown interior on the '88 was definitely Cinnabar. It's a gorgeous color. Much different from the 1983 brown. ;)


I'm pretty sure that you could only get a LX with a Raven interior in 87. In 88 it was off the options list for the LX. That's in the US at least ;)
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Reply #41
This was definitely an 88 LX, as confirmed by the VIN (and buttstuffogue cluster). If I'm ever out that way again I'll have to take some pics. That's a big "if" though - I've pretty much given up the pursuit of buying it...
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Reply #42
Hmmm....my understanding was that the full Raven interior (all black) was TC only, and that on the Sport and perhaps the LX, the Raven seats were available but otherwise the interior was mostly Smoke. For earlier turbo cars (1986) there was a Raven option, but it was more of a Smoke/Raven combo. The only ones I've ever heard about to be ALL Raven was the TC, and that may have been 1988 only. All cars with the Smoke interior should have had a Raven dash top though.

Again, I don't have any Ford-only books but Brent should be able to corroborate some of this. It would have been nice to have the full Raven interior available to other models...that's a gorgeous color.

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Reply #43
My interior will be all black as soon as the weather warms up enough to paint :D True black, though, not "almost black". I've already done the dash and door panels, gotta do the side panels and dye the soft stuff (seats, headliner, carpet) now...

As for the LX in question: The plastic, headliner, carpet and dash were definitely raven but now that I think back the seats were the two-tone raven Sport seats (dark on the outsides and a lighter grey in the middle). I've never actually seen full raven black seats, I thought they were all two-tone. Granted, I don't see many fox 'Birds or Cats at all around here anymore...

Nother question: Has anyone ever seen a two-tone dash with two different colours? I am 100% certain that I've seen a 85-86 car with tan interior, but the dash was two-tone dark grey (top) and beige (bottom). I don't remember where or when I saw it, but I did see it, in person. I do remember it was weird looking. I seem to remember taking some parts off it for my buddy's '85.
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Reply #44
Carm, were the seats in that LX cloth? They were all a lighter Smoke with the blue...I mean, Raven, surround. ;) The all leather seats were real dark, still two tone but much darker than the cloth seats.

I have seen a Raven top with a colored dash. In fact that's how my convertible was from the factory...Canyon Red interior with a Raven dash top. That was 1985-86 only, it seems. Really it didn't bother me much and actually looked pretty nice:



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