1992 Feature Mustang Literature and Published Information

Magazine articles - Books - Ford literature

Last updated: August 7, 2008

I have been able to obtain some published information on the 1992 Feature Mustang. I have included copies here but with an image quality that gives you a flavor for the article and hopefully does not get me into trouble for reproducing these copyrighted materials (if you are a publisher and object please let me know).

Magazine articles

Index

This is a listing of the articles included on this page sorted by issue date. The articles themselves are grouped according to publication.

Publication	Issue	Article title	Page(s)	Cover
Mustang Monthly	April 2004	Fox Feature Facts
Mustang Milestones from Mustang & Ford Trader	2004	A History of the Fox Mustangs	72
Mustang Times	May 2002	One Hot Feature Car	Covers, 32-33
Mustang Illustrated	September 1998	Top 20 Late-Model Mustangs	56-61
Mustang Illustrated	February 1993	Special Feature: Girls Just Want to Have Fun	Cover, 36
Mustang Monthly	December 1992	Ford's Own Modified	44
Mustang & Fords	November 1992	Vitamin See	70,71

Mustang Monthly

April 2004

An article called "Fox Feature Facts" takes 4 pages of the issue. It was great to see this article! In recent times the four limited-production fox body convertibles get little press. Miles Cook of Mustang Monthly did a real nice job on the article.

The cover mentions the article as "Collectible Foxes: Special Edition Feature Cars". A 1993 Yellow feature car is included in the upper left corner.

It is a very detailed article on the 1990 "7-up" convertible, the 1992 Vibrant Red convertible and, of course, the 1993 Canary Yellow and Vibrant White cars. This Web site is mentioned at the end of the article as a source for more information. In fact, some of the details are directly quoted from this web site (don't think for a second that I copied from them!)

 

December 1992

This is a very good article that not only describes the car but provides details on its background. It gives credit to Joe Laura of the Mustang Business Planning group and even mentions how he spotted them on a then recent vacation.The article also alludes to the 1993 feature cars in two places. In the first reference it mentions a possible yellow car. It also says that the group was toying with the idea of black running horse inserts on the black headrests.

Mustang Times

May 2002

A 1992 Feature Mustang makes both the front and back covers of the issue. Inside is a two page article titled "One Hot Feature Car". The article describes one owner's recent acquisition of a very low mileage 1992 Feature Mustang. To get it to show quality it was restored to factory condition. The owner liked the car so much, he bought a second for his daughter.

Front cover	Back cover	Article p. 32	Article p. 33

Mustang & Fords

November 1992

This issue had an article titled "Vitamin See" on the 1992 Feature Mustang.

Mustang Illustrated

September 1998

This top 20 list includes the "1992-93 Limited Edition Mustang LX at lucky number 13. I've included all 20 so you can see the others.

Here's a large size version of the write-up for your enjoyment.



Thanks to cobra2top for these scans.

February 1993

A special feature in this issue is titled "Girls Just Want to Have Fun". It focusses on:

The real ladies of Mustanging. Shelby Heightman's 1966 GT-350H, Maggie Valcourt's 1968 California Special, Cheryl Pastore's 1967 Convertible, Lisa Marie Wili's 1969 Mach 1, Debra Sanchez's 1983 Convertible, Stacey Dunn's 1987 GT, JoAnne Houser's 1965 Playboy Pink Convertible, Rose Nowicki's 1973 convertible, Regina Reiter's 1969 428 CJ Mach 1.

No mention of an 1992 LE convertible. But what better "ladies car" to grace the cover. Yeah right.

Thanks to cobra2top for these scans.

Mustang Milestones from Mustang & Ford Trader 2004

The article "The History of the Fox Mustangs" includes mention of all four limited edition convertibles.

Thanks to rare_92 for these scans.

Books

The March 2003 issue of Mustang Monthly has a pretty detailed answer to a question about these cars in the Late-Model Corral. It references information from Official Ford Mustang 5.0 Technical Reference and Performance Handbook by Al Kirschenbaum. It is available through amazon.com.

Ford Literature

"Hot sheet"

Scanned images of the 1992 Feature Car Fact Sheet were available on v8mustangs.com where they detail their 1992 project Mustang. That site seems to be no longer available so I have copied their images here.

Product Information Sheet (in French)

Paul sent me the following scans. He got the originals when he bought his feature car new from a Canadian Ford dealer. He was able to convince the salesman to give them up from their product binder.

And from another Canadian export owner, the Canadian "Hot Sheet" in English.

Stock photo

I downloaded this from somewhere.

 

Window sticker

If you are not the original owner (and maybe even if you are) you probably don't have the window sticker from your car. If you are curious as to what they looked like, here is one. This is from a car that I spotted being auctioned online. The seller posted an image of the sticker so I grabbed it. Unfortunately, the image was of a photocopy. What is most interesting about this is that it seems to indicate that the A/C was dealer installed.

Below is a better quality example from an automatic this time.

 

Door Tag

Below is a door tag from a 1992 Feature Car. The most notable unique feature of the tag is the "EY" exterior paint code. Also, I think the 'CZ' interior trim code is unique to the feature cars. Much like the 1993's, other Mustangs with white leather interiors are not all white. They are either Oxford White/Titanium ('CL') or Oxford White/Scarlet ('CN'). In all of these codes, the 'C' is Leather.

Dealer Order Receipt Acknowledgement (DORA)

This is a very interesting document that we do not see too often. Today, it's common for us to be armed with dealer costs, but, back in 1992, this was closely held information. This document lists both MSRP and dealer cost for each option. This example also includes the purchase price with discount and the trade in.

Build Sheet

As discussed in The Den, Ford provides, upon request, a list of all original options for a given VIN. An example of one for a 1992 Red Feature Car follows.

Related Information

Mustang Magazine Database - an index of Mustang articles from Mustang Monthly, Mustangs & Fords and Mustang Illustrated at Dave's 1966 Mustang Tech Site. This makes the job of finding historical information a lot easier!