Hi again, Greg.
I hope you are enjoying your visit from a most cherished member of my family.
I don't know which Ford dealer specifically had the state contract that year, but it may be possible it was a dealer from the eastern Florida Parishes and they might or may have been under that Memphis DSO. Sometime in the past I think the Mississippi river used to be a divider between DSO districts.
My 78 LTD was purchased from Robertson Ford of New Orleans in that year and I believe the DSO on it was Memphis too. It was built in Louisville, Ky.
I am under the belief that they build most of these cars for the specific agencies that order them, right? Or do they just build a bunch of white ones and if they order white this is what they get equipped...however. No I think it must be the former. One agency may specify something as simple as power windows or not, and then there they'd be.
As it happens I do not have a pic of the door VIN tag (strange I have photokilled myself on any and all tags, stickers and paint marks I could find) but I don't have that one.
I will remedy that this weekend and post that pic on Monday.