1975 Ford LTD Country Squire

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  1. jwdtenn

    jwdtenn Well-Known Member

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    Not that hard really....it definitely is not a 74 but it's a Mexican market Squire. The 75 and later years didn't have covered headlights down there. Another dead giveaway is the speedometer in kilos too. It probably has a few interior details different too, but I'll defer to Bill Mercman to corroborate that....

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    Well I agree. The South American/Mexican Fords that I have seen had the Mercuryish grill with and without hidden headlamps. My bet is that it could be a “Squired” up LTD wagon. It has the ‘75-‘78 steering wheel. Not optioned up, and the LTD emblem on the tailgate on the ‘75-‘76 would have been the elongated Landau emblem I think even on the Mexican Fords. Think the LTD emblems got dropped in ‘77-‘78, at least on US cars. Would love to run the VIN report to see it’s pedigree.
     
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    Ad text indicates the original owner was a newspaper publisher in Guadalajara, Mexico- so there's your answer. I just think it's a '75 Mexican-market Country Squire.
     
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    Pretty cool car. I agree it is a Mexican market Ford. Ad stated 13k miles…must be actually less than that because the odometer would be in kilometers along with the speedometer. Strange to see a car of 70’s vintage without headrests…but in Mexico I’m sure there were no regulations at the time so Ford saved money not putting them in. I’m a little surprised to see no air conditioning in a car destined for such a hot climate.
     
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    Like they say when it’s 121 in Arizona. It’s a dry heat. Plus I’m sure that Mexico’s NHTSA, if they had a version wasn’t as loaded with a lot of bureaucrats, and the car companies did what was minimally required to get their cars showrooms.
     
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    Cars from Mexico are somewhat common in California and Arizona, rarely this nice at this age though as they tended to get driven into the ground. Now that it's old enough I'm sure there's next to no issues with the lack safety equipment from an import perspective (it was titled and registered in the last few months), although not having any seatbelts seems somewhat dicey of a proposition in this day and age.
     
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    I noticed the missing headrests, but until you mentioned it I hadn’t noticed that there are no seatbelts in this car. If you zoom up on the front seat it looks as though the hole in the seat bottom is there for the belts to pass through had they been installed. But obviously no belts. Also, there is something odd with the high beam lightbulbs in this car. Perhaps some kind of export spec. I remember giving a quote to do a lighting refit in a huge warehouse at Port Elizabeth in 1991. There was a large amount of GM vehicles (Corsica, Berettas, caprice wagons, etc) waiting for export and I noticed that the lighting was considerably different than the US spec models. They had amber high beams and extra fog lamps mounted on the rear like many Volvos come. It was interesting to see the differences in the export vehicles that I had never laid eyes on before. Someone there told me the cars were destined for France
     
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    The jump-seats have no stitching on them. U S Market cars did.
     
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    Does that air cleaner sticker say 351-4V ? Also the luggage rack appears to be on backwards with the air deflector and adjustable cross bar on the wrong end. Optioned with the ""Police" trim DFRS ! And 1973 rear bumper spacing.
     
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    Exactly right about the tailgate emblems. Landau emblems on '75 & '76, no emblems at all on '77 & '78. The one on this car appears to be the '74 emblem. It looks like there used to be a hood ornament, and it was broken off. It would be interesting to know which emblem it was. My bet would be another '74 carryover.

    I never heard of police spec DFRS. I thought the police package was only available on 6 passenger cars, but looking carefully at the brochure, I found a very offhand reference to using the magic doorgate for passenger access. The '73 bumper in a Mexican car doesn't surprise me, but the backwards luggage rack makes no sense at all to me.

    Of course, there was no 351 W 4V for the U.S. market in these years.
     
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    My comment concerning the "Police trim DFRS" was tongue-in-cheek.
     
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    Still, it does beg the question: was there such a thing?

    How many wagons with the police package did Ford sell from '73 to '78, and how many big wagons did they sell in Mexico?
    Would it have paid them to produce a very plain DFRS upholstery like this for either or both of these -- probably very limited production -- groups, or would it have been cheaper for them to have just used the standard U.S. upholstery? For that matter, the upholstery on the front and second seats doesn't look like anything I've seen before or can find in the brochures. I'd love to see the Mexican brochures for this car.
     
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    That backwards mounted :slap::slap: air-deflector is just TOO STUPID !!!!!!!
     
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    Agreed. Fortunately I think all you’d have to do is move the rails. But they didn’t notice that? Maybe the Mexican model had an air scope and not a deflector.
     

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