http://autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.jsp?car_id=180021617&dealer_id=56108680&car_year=1985&make=FORD&distance=300&lang=en&max_price=&model=TBIRD&sponsorModel=&end_year=1988&min_price=&certified=&address=61603&search_type=both&advanced=&start_year=1984&isp=y&cardist=277
Ok, I have never seen anything like this, nose clip before. Is this an after market part, dealer installed, or a rare option?
Looks like a gst kit with a custom header panel :dunno: .
Looks like the Pacifica or Xenon ground effects kit, sans the rear.
That's the Motorsport grille and wing...both very desirable.
I think that grille is fugly.. kinda makes the car look like a fish..
however, I wouldn't mind that wing on my cats.
I wouldn't mind replicating the grille on my '86, just not stuck out so far forward like that.
Ok, your wish is my command....
http://natomessageboard.com/Forum1/HTML/013762.html
Not what I had in mind..
I was thinking horizontal crossbar, not vertical.
The floating-bird also came to mind at some point, in lieu of that. (would be much easier than what I want)
or you can always do what i did,
Leave 2 portions of hte bird grille cut the rest out, put a mesh behind it, paint it and stick an emblem on
(http://www.baxo.ca/cougar/newgrilleprogress.jpg)
And it complete
(http://www.baxo.ca/cougar/newgrillecomplete.jpg)
I did that literally 3 days before CJ '04 just so my cat differed in some way from the previous year's CJ.
WTF?! Somebody's actually going through the trouble to engineer and produce a custom fiberglass T-Bird grille, almost exactly like you said you wanted....and you're thumbing your nose at it? Cougar owners would kill for something like that. Read all the text for that post--the vertical part is for support. Paint it black, shave it thinner, whatever. It's the perfect base for a modded grille. Nobody's going to hand you your ideal grille on a silver platter.
-ok , correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't there a kit offered thru ford motorsports back in the day that looks erie close to that??? :dunno:
Speaking of custom header panels (sorry mild hi-jack in progress), It snowed one day, and my cougar thought it was a T-Bird....
Although it gave me idea of a flush header panel against the bumper cover. Which the snow gives the idea of a Nascar spec cougar, and more up to date with todays body lines....
My own grille's beginning to crack on the thinner parts. My plan is to secure one in a better condition in case my project fails, and then cut the smaller stuff out of my own grille and mold it the way I want it. It'll give me experience working with materials, and it'll give me the satisfaction of having done something mostly or completely by myself.
I wasn't aware that doing something myself was such an emotional issue.
All I'm saying is, 20 years hence we cannot be that frickin' picky about parts. If somebody is making a brand new custom part for these cars, they're worth supporting IF THAT'S IN YOUR PLANS. Doing up a stock grille into your own needs is cool too. Whatever works. But if it doesn't work out, remember that there's an alternative. That's all I meant.
I'm just going to walk away from this one for now. I am in a pretty rotten mood today.
I hate all you fornicatecers.
Brian, i thought you loved me.. but since i posted in this thread earlier that means that your above comment applies to me also.. and for that i'm hurt, and shocked :(
I decided it's time for me to crack skulls on this message board.
I know where there's an 86 5.0 Bird in a local junkyard with the ground effects (missing front & rear parts, only the side skirts are there), Motorsport wing and grille. I was gonna buy it and d it, but the j/y wants $300 for the whole kit. I offered it up to people on the old message board and on NATO but nobody wanted it.
The Bird itself is pretty interesting too - it's one of those optionless cars (manual windows, single manual mirror, no cruise, no A/C, buttstuffogue clock, but it does have power locks), but what makes it weird is that it has the full console and a 5.0. The interior was pretty much trashed, but I did manage to snag the tray on the console for my car to replace the '83 Cougar one that was in it (different grain in the plastic). I might be hitting that car up again if it's still there, because I'm gonna need some seat foam