How rare?

[Neil R. Lipes]

Seems like FoMoCo produced tens of thousands of Crown Vic and Grand Marquis in four door.

Any way to find out the production numbers of late 80's coupes?

I will say that a car with 150 BHP (302) and a weight of almost 4k............what were they thinkin in Dearborn?

[shorty]

I have a 1985, 13,673 2 door coupes were made that year

[L1011tristar17]

You'd be more hard-pressed to find a Town Coupe. They only made those for two years (for the Panther platform, at least).

[mrltd]

Wagons have fairly low production number also... 90 and 91 IIRC were under 10K

[BuffaloRider]

I haven't even seen a panther wagon or coupe since I bought my panther last august. I sure would looooove to get me a wagon one day, but by the time I can actually get one they'll be even harder to find.

You'd be more hard-pressed to find a Town Coupe. They only made those for two years (for the Panther platform, at least).

woah woah woah woah woah! There are 80's town car coupes?? How ignorant AM I?! Looks like I'll be doing some google image searches and loading my hard drive up with more panther pics lol!

[gadget73]

80-81 only. The Mark VI coupe is a better looking car though if you ask me. Shorter wheelbase too, so they end up looking a bit less disproportionate.

[johnunit]

84-87 were all in the 10,000 range. I think as high as 15,000 and as low as 6,000, with a general downward trend. no coupes after 87. I can try to dig up the exact numbers, I have them in a book but I'm only near it on the weekends.

[fmansfield444]

I saw a 2 door townie once. I saw a flower car once too.

Haven't seen too many wagons or 2 doors on the road in a while though

[L1011tristar17]

There's a girl at my university that has an '86-'87 Crown Vic wagon. I've also seen a straight-piped '88-'91 Crown Vic in the same student parking deck.

[L1011tristar17]

The Mark VI coupe has the same wheelbase as the Crown Vic and Grand Marquis, right? I wouldn't mind driving a 4-door Mark VI. With today's narrow parking spaces I'd hate to deal with doors the length of an aircraft runway.

[sly]

The Mark VI coupe has the same wheelbase as the Crown Vic and Grand Marquis, right? I wouldn't mind driving a 4-door Mark VI. With today's narrow parking spaces I'd hate to deal with doors the length of an aircraft runway.

they're not that bad. I had to DD my 2-door Mark for a year and didn't have any more trouble than with normal doors. Finding a space it actually fits in first is the key. Never attempt to squeeze into a compact car space with these... unless you take up 2.

[tjc78]

I think it's safe to say that the 80/81 Town Coupe is the rarest Panther model. The lowest production for coupes was 1987 and as mentioned 90/91 wagons were fairly low production.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that 4 dr Mark VI were also fairly low production. Never understood why they even made them.

[Neil R. Lipes]

Need number for the 1986 model year.

84-87 were all in the 10,000 range. I think as high as 15,000 and as low as 6,000, with a general downward trend. no coupes after 87. I can try to dig up the exact numbers, I have them in a book but I'm only near it on the weekends.

[gadget73]

The Mark VI coupe has the same wheelbase as the Crown Vic and Grand Marquis, right? I wouldn't mind driving a 4-door Mark VI. With today's narrow parking spaces I'd hate to deal with doors the length of an aircraft runway.

Yes, though honestly the longer wheel base 2 door is not any better as far as parking goes. Same door on both, the extra 3" of wheelbase is basically between the back edge of the door and the rear wheels. You still get the longer Lincoln nose so even the shorter Mark VI is bigger than a Vic.


The Mark VI existed to continue the old badging from the 70s. In 1980, you had 3 nearly identical cars. The Continental was the base model, and you could get a Continental Town Car or a Continental Mark VI. There was also a Conti coupe, Conti Town Coupe, and a Conti Mark VI Coupe, depending which trim level you wanted. They carried that through 81 as well. In 82, the Continental was a fox body car and entirely unrelated to the other cars. In 82 for a full size, you got a Continental Mark VI sedan or coupe or a Town Car, not the Continental Town Car and no Town Coupe. Same deal in 83. The Mark VI was replaced by the fox body Mark VII in 1984 and from that point onward it was just the Town Car on the full size platform. Lots of people don't get or don't like the Mark VI, but I personally think they are cool. Its basically just a Towncar with different lights though.

[84GrandMarquis]

Need number for the 1986 model year.

IIRC there's a whole super list of all panther info somewhere on this site that I'm sure has this stuff. I'm pretty sure that it was 6,559 1986 Crown Victoria coupes, and 5,610 Grand Marquis Coupes. 1986 was the second lowest year for 2 door production. Unfortunately rarity doesn't always equate to being valuable, but coupes are worth a little bit more to the right buyer. If $ value was you were looking for, I'd have to say that 1983-1987 2 doors don't really vary too much as far as "value" at this stage of the game, even though they made so few later on. Just as an interesting piece of info I'm almost positive that in the late late 1970's (and maybe the very early 80's idr) they were pumping out close to 100,000 of these coupes.