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Thanks very much for your "quickdraw" response! It's appreciated, and I'll pass the info on😎🙂
 

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Here's mine:
1FAHP60A03Y106809
Thanks, Ken

Order Date: 1/30/2003
Date Built: 2/28/2003
At Dealer: 4/12/2003
Sold Date: 6/27/2003 Sold by Northport Ford, Commack, NY
This Premium 2003 white, black hardtop, full red interior, SST, 7 spoke chrome wheels is one of only 6 made like this.
 
Chris, (webbsyght)
Order Date: 5/3/2004
Date Built: 6/15/2004
At Dealer: 7/19/2004
Sold Date: 12/18/2004 sold by Ernie Haire Ford, Tampa, FL
Your premium 2004 merlot, merlot hardtop, merlot soft top, black accent interior, SST, 7 spoke chrome wheels is one of only 13. It's your merlot soft top that made this so rare, only 100 Tbirds were made with a merlot soft top.

Your car left the factory with 7 spoke chrome wheels so the dealer or a previous owner must have put the 16 spoke wheels on it.
 
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Quickdraw,
I had emailed Dot at PHA with the builddate question and she said you could help. I bought my 2002 in May of 08. The VIN is 1FAHP60A22Y101366. I found the small vin sticker on front fender with #1047 above it. Hope you can help, Dick
 
Quickdraw,

VIN: 1FAHP60A85Y100131

Just bought this used with only 11,000 on it.

Thanks!

Scott and Kym

Scott & Kym,
1FAHP60A85Y100131
Order date: 5/18/2004
Date built: 7/20/2004
AT dealer: 8/25/2004
Sold date: 7/23/2005 Sold by Richmond Ford, Richmond, VA
Yes the softtop is sand colored. Your car came with the front license plate bracket, engine oil cooler, was originally a red carpet lease, and it did leave the factory with the soft top boot cover.
Your premium 2005 steel blue, steel blue hardtop, sand interior, SST, 7 spoke chrome wheels is one of 147.
 
Quickdraw,
I had emailed Dot at PHA with the builddate question and she said you could help. I bought my 2002 in May of 08. The VIN is 1FAHP60A22Y101366. I found the small vin sticker on front fender with #1047 above it. Hope you can help, Dick

Dick, (Early Bird 2002)

1FAHP60A22Y101366
Order date: 1/8/2001
Date built: 7/19/2001
at Dealer: 10/10/2001
Sold Date: 10/18/2001 Sold by Velde Ford, Vero Beach, FL

Your premium 2002 black, black hardtop, black accent interior, 7 spoke chrome wheels is one of 4,705 made like that. This, by the way, is the most popular combination of colors and options of all the 2002-2005 Thunderbirds.
Your "Early Bird" name is fitting, of the 68,098 2002-05 Thunderbirds built, only 391 were ordered before 1/8/01, and only 1,482 were built before 7/19/01.

Welcome to the site and thank you very much for being a contributing member.
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Quickdraw, Can you do 1996 Birds. We bought ours new in March of 1996. The dealer is family. It was brought to us from Illinois. I would like to know all of the basic info. Can you do? If yes, I'll send VIN. Dick
 
Quickdraw, Can you do 1996 Birds. We bought ours new in March of 1996. The dealer is family. It was brought to us from Illinois. I would like to know all of the basic info. Can you do? If yes, I'll send VIN. Dick

No, sorry, I only have 2002-2005 Thunderbird data.
 
VIN is 1FAHP60A52Y112281

That should make more sense.

Ski


Ski,

Order Date: 6/18/2001
Date Built: 2/27/2002
At Dealer: 3/4/2002
Sold Date: 3/6/2002 Sold by Hillside Ford, Hillside, NJ
Your premium 2002, black, black hardtop, black accent interior, 7 spoke chrome wheels is one of 4,705. This by the way was the most popular combination of colors & options of all 2002-2005 Thunderbirds.
The second most popular combination was a premium 2002 blue, blue hardtop, full blue interior, 7 spoke chrome wheels with 3,791 of those made.
 
Ski: We are pretty close. My vin is 600 earlier than yours and the car is the exact same description😀
 
Ski:
Quickdraw can confirm this - but if I remember correctly, under the hood on the right hand fender, there is a tag that says Rotation #.
Mine was 1829. Whatever your number is add that to 9960. As in mine, 1829 + 9960 = the 11,789th 2002 TBird built in 2001/2002.
Let us know if your rotation number survived and is still there.

BTW, with Quickdraws help many years ago I fould out that mine was ordered on 1-10-02, built 2-22-02 and arrived at the dealer on 3-4-02 - And there it sat until my dealer in NH found it and brought it down and I bought it on 8-5-02. Picked it up and it's been in MA ever since.😎

I hope this helps

EDIT: Wow I just bumped your numbers against mine for a comparason:
Your order date 6-18-01 and mine 1-10-02, I didn't think they were allowed to take orders that soon. My dealer wouldn't.
Your Build date 2-27-02 and mine 2-22-02, 5 days earlier, that's why the vin difference.
Yours to dealer 3-4-02 mine also 3-4-02
Yours sold on 3-6-02 mine 8-5-02
 
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Ski, checkout post #350. We have twins. My question is did you buy yours new? If yes, do you still have your window sticker. I bought mine used last May and would like to get a copy of the 2002 window sticker so I could put my info onto it in photoshop to make a window cling for area events. All options should be the same. Dick, Brookfield, Wi.
 
Early Bird....We almost posted at the same time. I went back to your post 350 and saw that your fender sticker may have been a rotation number.
If so, I took 1047 = 9960 and came up with 11,007th one built😎
 
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