1976 Country Squire power windows

Hi guys.

I am looking at a 1976 Country Squire to buy.

It has only front power windows.

I have seen a lot of these cars and have never seen only front windows on one.

Was it an option on this car?

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

Could someone have modified the car, from manual front to power front, or power rear to manual rear? If you can find the original 'broadcast' (build) sheet, usually under the front seat bottom in a Ford, IIRC, it will tell you what was installed on the car.

 

There are only two switches on the front left door and window handles on the rear doors.

It is weird.

 

Are there any photos of this setup?

 

Find that broadcast sheet. That'll explain everything.

 

Here are two pictures.

You can see through the back window that the rear door have roll up handles.

 

There are cars that had front power windows only and rear crank windows, but I've never heard of that on one of these. A couple of things make me think this may have been an alteration by a previous owner. 1) that Ford logo on the driver's door panel is not original. Is it covering up the old hole for the window crank? 2) that armrest looks strange. Where is the door pull? What do you pull on to close the door?

 

You may be right. The arm rest is different than a factory arm rest would be.

When I go actually look at the car I will have a lot of questions for the owner.

He says it is an American car so I will have to find out where it came from and do a Marti report on it.

 

Well now....things that make you go HMMMMM

 

Well, obviously, it is an American or Canadian production car, but the door armrest assembly is the correct style and design for it. If i had to guess, based on the pics and circumstances, someone put those in themselves using factory parts. Why they didn't go the whole nine yards is likely due to lack of money or cheap lack of will.

 

I am sorry for the delay in answering.

I am going to go look at this car and there is one question that is bothering me.

If this was a conversion, where did they get the drivers door lock switch panel.

Isn't the one used on two door cars much longer?

 

The switch panel seems to be the one used on the 2-door LTD's, which at that time, did not have movable quarter windows.


And here's a shot of the inside of a right side 2-door door, with power windows:

 

Thank you Krash. I could have sworn the two door used a much longer panel.

 

It only needed to reach the seat back; anything extra would be a waste of materials.