My 85' Crown Vic

[Mainemantom]

Just don't hire "United Road" They "forgot" two others in Ca. They damaged three of seven. Driver made it cross country in 3 days. Slightly over hours on his long book ! He admitted he was using two logbooks. But that is another story for another time.

[DerekTheGreat]

...Had it shipped with 6 others to Maine in 07...

Ballin'! I'm doing it wrong.

[gadget73]

I imagine fleet orders had a lot more flexibility in what you could de-select too.

[Mainemantom]

The 90 CV was a San Diego County Sheriff Department Patrol car. Whoever ordered it had their finger on the delete option button. In San Diego vehicles don't need rear window defrosters. I bought the car in about 2003. Had it shipped with 6 others to Maine in 07. I needed to replace the horizontal trim panels on the dash.Original had dents and holes in it. Never have been able to find a good panel without the defroster button. When the factory makes the panels, the back plastic is all the same with numerous holes. The difference is the covering. Mine originally had a covering that had no holes. For each option, a different covering is made. So the car now has a perfect panel with a non working defroster button. Unless it is in a points judging show (which it wont) no one will know or care. It sure looks nice now.

[VicCrownVic]

Knowing Tom, he probably picked it up while in California. The reason you don't seen them with out rear defrost, Derek, is because of where we live. It would be unimaginable to order a car without that feature around here.
Kind of like how no AC is a thing around here, but unimaginable the further south you go.

1985crownvicltd85, the car looks great. Nice color combo of black with red interior.

[DerekTheGreat]

Wow, was that car from Maine originally? What options does it have? Guess there's a plate where the defrost button would be?

[Mainemantom]

My 90 CV doesn't have rear defrost.

[DerekTheGreat]

What, these cars weren't standard with tilt wheel? That's nuts... I mean, I could see '79 to '83 being that way but by '85? Hot damn.. On a related note, I saw watched the Big Lebowski yesterday. After the Dude's encounter with Malibu's police chief, he's riding in a '88-'89 LTD which doesn't have rear defrost. I've never seen a box post '87 without defrost...

[87gtVIC]

Oh yes would you look at that. I was excited.

Still better than what we got in the states.

[1985crownvicltd85]

I know, it certainly makes a difference.

as for the speedo, its just a canadian speedo, where the primary reading is kilometres

[87gtVIC]

Nice. Not sure how I cold deal with the car without the tilt.

I spy the 140 speedo too!

[1985crownvicltd85]

I finally found a tilt column for my car, heres a picture of it installed. Its originally from an 86' Colony Park.

[87gtVIC]

getting mine apart involved use of a torch to get it moving. It was rusted solid, the column was not collapsible anymore. Unfortunately the heat de-sprung the spring in there so I had to take it back apart and bend that enough to keep the two shafts tight to one another.

It was stuck, I had to use some heat and penetrating fluid, now everything moves freely, the second headache was getting the rivets out.

Oh yeah. Forgot to mention..heat was involved in my endeavor..so was penetrating fluids. Fun times.

[1985crownvicltd85]

It was stuck, I had to use some heat and penetrating fluid, now everything moves freely, the second headache was getting the rivets out.

[gadget73]

getting mine apart involved use of a torch to get it moving. It was rusted solid, the column was not collapsible anymore. Unfortunately the heat de-sprung the spring in there so I had to take it back apart and bend that enough to keep the two shafts tight to one another.