i don't think you needed the sport option to get the tach. if you got the "power package" which included power windows and doors, you also got a tach, but no foglights.
if you got a sunroof, they would through in a tach.
the packaging system made absolutley no sense in those days. and why they would make a manual transmission car without a tach is beyond me. without a speedometer i could understand, but a tach? so you're assuming that the non-performance oriented person purchasing the car would have enough knowledge of where to shift just by 'listening' for the shift points. com'on Ford...get real!!!
