Don Dellmann wrote in a message to All:
 DD> Help!  Am I on drugs or what?
I dunno,  are you smoking any funny-looking cigarettes lately?   :-)
 DD> Back in 1976 my boss leased a Continental Mark V.  I KNOW it 
 DD> was a Five, as I drove it on company busisness many times, and 
 DD> I know it was a '76 'cause I leased a '76 Granada from the same 
 DD> leasing company at the same time, we both got our cars in 
 DD> January of '76.  (I've still got the papers for mine).
 DD> Today I was visiting a friend who's restoring a Mark IV. I know 
 DD> it's a FOUR, 'cause I've seen it, it says IV on it, and has the 
 DD> horizontal taillights, rather than the vertical ones2 my boss's 
 DD> had.
 DD> YET, the doorplate on this IV says it was built in April 1976
 DD>                            ^^                            ^^^^ 
 DD> Did production of the IV & V overlap, with BOTH being built 
 DD> simultaneously, or am I in the twilight zone?
I dunno about those specific vehicles,  but having worked a bit in auto parts 
I did notice that Ford has one heck of a tendency to change things in the 
middle of a model year,  different parts being used for "early" vs. "late" 
production and similar stuff...
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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