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Technical => Body/Appearance/Interior => Topic started by: Abqsam87 on May 21, 2017, 03:55:01 PM

Title: 87-88 sail panel emblems
Post by: Abqsam87 on May 21, 2017, 03:55:01 PM
Has anyone ever heard of or do you know if gold sail panel emblems were offered on the Tbird?
Title: 87-88 sail panel emblems
Post by: jcassity on May 23, 2017, 12:12:19 PM
nope,, be first!

a good oem color match for a "gold" is the color "Sunburst Gold",, small cans can be found specifically at adance auto.  its gold perfectly matches the 20th anny cougar color
Title: 87-88 sail panel emblems
Post by: vinnietbird on May 24, 2017, 12:28:19 PM
I saw some NOS gold emblems on Ebay a few days ago. I never gave them a second look. Said they were for the Fox Birds. may be worth looking up.
Title: 87-88 sail panel emblems
Post by: BCA on May 24, 2017, 04:46:02 PM
I'm not aware of any factory '87-'88 Thunderbird emblem that was gold, just chrome.
Title: 87-88 sail panel emblems
Post by: bodyman on May 24, 2017, 05:15:33 PM
This goes back about 20 years or so but sometimes dealers (or the car owners) used to have some chrome emblems re-plated gold. We would have a guy come to the body shop and he would hook up his device, I assume it gave the emblem some sort of charge, and turn them gold for us. They looked factory when done.
Title: 87-88 sail panel emblems
Post by: Abqsam87 on May 24, 2017, 09:45:46 PM
Well I'm the one that purchased them from eBay.They are the sail panel emblems and are Gold in factory Ford packaging and it looks like the factory produced them as they don't appear to have been done as a re-done piece.Ill post some pics when I can figure out how to do so.Thanks for the responses.