Found a car that popped up on a Japanese website that included the numbers 7637. Can't locate any info on the VIN number after translating the page using the Goog. It's a really nice complete car. Not missing a ZF.
Here's what 7 years ago looks like on mine. Some bad old work was the beginning of my nightmare. I literally tore the back of the car loose. Had cracks running across both sail panels, c pillar. Car started turning in funny side to side. This made me park it.
My dad gave me my first ride. He worked the Dearborn Test Track and brought one home for a long lunch. It was Orange with black interior. Ford had bought back 6 or 7 of them for lawsuits stemming from rusted cars in Europe. Seems a doctor or lawyer had an early car that rotted out and went over a train crossing and it separated into two pieces. Remember my dad commenting on what a ride that must have been. They had pictures and were corroding them at accelerated rates. At the end of testing, two mysteriously lost engines and transaxles, couple lost wheels and tires, everybody took the emblems for their toolboxes. They had problems back then borrowing from Uncle H.
So they lined them up (what was left) out on the track parking lot and had a D9 stoked and waiting. Everybody came out to watch them go from 4' to 1' thickness, then forked onto a flatbed.
Here's some pics from mine. A survivor from Michigan. I wore two kids and myself out scraping the undercoating. So long long ago. I've lost weight too!
