Only a year later Ewan but I was just going over the history file and see that the 'Cavallino Rampante' (the Prancing Horse) on the front grille was in fact requested. So there you go, they were not standard at that time.
Update on my 1982 400i GT, rhd & manual in Rosso Mettalizzato. Here are a few up-to-date photos of my 400i GT taken a few weeks ago at a Cars and Coffee meet in Dundalk, Co Louth, Ireland, and a link to a YouTube video I did of it last year with a cold I thought but which of course, turned out to be Covid .... remember that Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
They were standard in the 365, but not on the later cars. The retrofit was probably easy. I would not mind one in my car...
First time out in a month 'cos I ran out of dailys.........................and it had to rain: Image Unavailable, Please Login
7150klm/4400 miles trip in OHOS: This after 1000klm/600 miles...20klm/12 miles of road works Image Unavailable, Please Login Washed and met up with others: Image Unavailable, Please Login And others: Image Unavailable, Please Login Another,427 bigblock full house: Image Unavailable, Please Login That's frost: Image Unavailable, Please Login And at rest in the shed yesterday: Image Unavailable, Please Login
Went for a wonderful fall mountain drive this evening. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
My 14 year old wanted a ride to a high school dance and requested this car, can't refuse that. 3 kids piled in! Image Unavailable, Please Login
It’s a grey area. There were quite a few “transition cars” in ‘82 with a few more in ‘83. The real oddballs are the ones with a Series 2 dash (which wouldn’t necessarily be black, but leather covered to match the interior), TRX wheels, but no load leveler suspension.
Mine has the newer dash, newer seats, black insert at the rear lights and load levelling suspension. Cheers Esben