YES! The mark vii's were built on the same platform as the Mustang and 83 to 88 T-bird and Cougar. The last guy whom answered must of had mark vii and mark viii confused.
The later was a mn-12 type of car not fox but those years mark viii did share the t-bird cougar platform for those years. This link is from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Mark#1984_Mark_VII scroll down to the Mark VIIs. There is an article about them.
It says that they are a Ford Fox platform which include Mustang, T-bird, Cougar, and various other Fords found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Fox_platform on this page. Copy and paste links in your browser or use the links to the right in the more information section.
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