Quickdraw
2004 Member of the Year
- Reaction score
- 339
- Thunderbird Year
- 2002
2FAST4U,
No, I personally wouldn’t consider anything you did to the car after it left the factory to be “original equipment” but who else would know? These numbers I give out are how many cars left the factory in a specific configuration. For example my 2002 premium blue/blue top/black accent interior is one of 840 that left the factory like that. But there were only 62 premium 2002 blue Thunderbirds with the black accent that left the factory without a top at all. So if I sold my top, would you consider mine be one of 840 or one of 62? Since no one knows what happens to cars after they leave the factory no one can tell how rare it is any more. I would have to think your car now is one of only a handful, a good chance even one of a kind. You got the best model Thunderbird available to you and made it better. It seems your car now is better and more rare than even the US built premiums as the engine block heater came standard with yours and it was an option that VERY few U.S. customers bought.
EDIT: Claude, to answer your original question, yes, I would consider yours to be a Premium.
No, I personally wouldn’t consider anything you did to the car after it left the factory to be “original equipment” but who else would know? These numbers I give out are how many cars left the factory in a specific configuration. For example my 2002 premium blue/blue top/black accent interior is one of 840 that left the factory like that. But there were only 62 premium 2002 blue Thunderbirds with the black accent that left the factory without a top at all. So if I sold my top, would you consider mine be one of 840 or one of 62? Since no one knows what happens to cars after they leave the factory no one can tell how rare it is any more. I would have to think your car now is one of only a handful, a good chance even one of a kind. You got the best model Thunderbird available to you and made it better. It seems your car now is better and more rare than even the US built premiums as the engine block heater came standard with yours and it was an option that VERY few U.S. customers bought.
EDIT: Claude, to answer your original question, yes, I would consider yours to be a Premium.
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