Ford may have squeezed even more vehicles out of their Fox platform than Chrysler got with their roughly contemporary K platform and derivatives, and the range of cars was just about as broad. Though Foxes are very plentiful in high-turnover self-service wrecking yards, I let most of them go to The Crusher undocumented. We've seen this '79 Mustang Indy 500 Pace Car, this '80 Mercury Capri, and this '82 Mercury Zephyr so far in this series, and today we'll add another Malaise Era Fox. Yes, there was a Fox Thunderbird with squared-off, Fairmont-style body, available for the 1980 through 1982 model years. Not many of these cars were sold, so today's find— in Denver— is a rare one.
1982 Ford Thunderbird Commercial
Ford's marketers did their best, but the Thunderbird name had fallen on hard times. Again.
Heritage split bench seats in Midnight Blue!
These Midnight Blue seats have lost some of their luster after 31 years, but you can imagine how Barcalounger-like they must have been when new.
Detroit stuck with the "wire wheel" hubcap concept well into the 1990s, but the middle 1980s were the pinnacle of the style.
The Town Landau emblems are gone, but the landau roof remains.
The interesting thing about these Foxes is that just about everything mechanical, plus unexpected stuff like dash panels, is bolt-on interchangeable between cars. You can swap in the drivetrain and suspension out of, say, a '93 Mustang SVT Cobra into an '82 T-Bird with a minimum of modifications. Or you could install the Heritage Split Bench seats out of an '82 T-Bird into your Mustang. 
from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com
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