Looking for a Bill Elliot NASCAR style TC front end....Searched the web and no dice. I think it would look very cool and different.
(http://www.hscrs.com/gallery/images%201-10/09-2t.JPG)
87 or 88.....wondering if any body still has the molds
I don't think so man. The newest foxbird is coming up on 20 years. Thats ALONG time to hold onto a part for a race only use
true enough. I'll keep searching though.
Found one!!!!!
http://www.revengeracing.com/nosetail.htm
$95
shiznit son, I'd hit it!! Will it fit to the stock front though?
Freaking nice find man!
They even have the rears.
No 4 eye stuff though :-(
If you get one, take lots of pics and let us know.
I live a few miles from the Elliotts, and a few years ago borrowed a nose and made a mould. I then made a partial nose and grafted it onto a stock bumper cover and made a second mould. This is exactly how the first hundred or so noses were made in '87. One of the racecars in the Elliott museum has a nose of yellow urethane exactly like this. That car even has the regular header panel and grill, and headlights bondo'ed over and painted. Ernie told me that originally, Ford was going to release these to the public through the Motorsport catalog to fit a streetcar. Then the original company went out of business, Ford changed their mind(Michael Kranefus I think) and they went to a fiberglass and then a plastic racecar-only nose. I have never found any available, and know even the vintage guys looked a long time to find replacements.
For a while Fivestar was making two piece plastic noses for dirt-track cars, but they were really short and I never bought one to try and fit to a streetcar. The actual airdam part was really short, and wouldn't have looked right grafted to a stock bumper cover.
Now, up here in North Georgia, there was a special Bill Elliott Edition 87-88 T-Bird sold through dealers. It was red and white and had a Kamei GFX kit on it. I ran one of those airdams for a while on my car.
Dave
I remember a Dirt track place north of Springfield Mo in a a town called Willard. I was there picking up a head from someone that worked there. While I waited I looked around the place they had Fox bird nose pieces and the older Camaro Stuff.
Not even close.
They are very flexible molded plastic noses that are made for the your local short track circle track race cars.
You may be able to make it work on a street car, but it would take a lot of work to do so.
Brent
:cougarsmily:
You might be able to take that nose and cut it right below the bumper and graft it onto a stock bumper-cover, but would be a lot of work. It doesn't extend down enough to provide much benefit other than cosmetics.
Someone should try it though.
I would just use the bumper and spoiler portion of it. My car is lowered, so I don't think I would have to worry about it extended down enough.