Grill Badge

Rarecat · Post by **Rarecat** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:14 pm

My 85 is missing the grill badge and I'm curious what the correct one would be. In looking through the extensive photos linked to this site, it looks like it should be either Mercury or SC 5.0

Does Hank carry either of these (didn't look like it when I shopped his website) and which one would be correct for my vert's grill?

Post by **negusm** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:37 pm

For 85 you just get the Mercury one.

For 86, Ford didn't want the Mercury name to show on their car so they had asc cover the Mercury on the grill with a stick on badge.

You will need to hunt junkyards or ebay. You will probably have to buy a whole grill assembly to get one.

-Mike

red390gt · Post by **red390gt** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:16 pm

negusm wrote:For 85 you just get the Mercury one.

For 86, Ford didn't want the Mercury name to show on their car so they had asc cover the Mercury on the grill with a stick on badge.

You will need to hunt junkyards or ebay. You will probably have to buy a whole grill assembly to get one.

-Mike

My 85 has the "5.0 SC" badge in the grill (shown below) except mine is all black no chrome. So going by what you say it must be wrong?
I found the badge for sale on Hanks website http://www.ascmclaren.com/nameplates.htm

Post by **negusm** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:38 pm

Oh, I could be wrong on the verts. I was thinking they would be the same as the coupes.

-Mike

GQ 1949 · Post by **GQ 1949** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:14 pm

My 85 vert has 5.0SC also on the grill, and on the trunk lid.
I always thought it was incorrect but really don't know ,I've
seen some cars with various emblems = asc mclaren, 5.0,
mercury, ect, The brochures pics in the literature section is
what I go by.

GQ.

Sandy · Post by **Sandy** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:28 pm

How did I miss this one ?

The 'Verts had the "MERCURY" chrome nameplate in between the grille bars, installed at FoMoCo. ascMcLaren left it there are "backing" and
affixed a

5.0 SC

over the MERCURY plaque.

COUPES got a

ascMcLaren

chrome plaque over the FoMoCo installed "MERCURY"

Oh, the 5.0 SC was also chrome

Post by **negusm** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:40 pm

Sandy wrote: COUPES got a

ascMcLaren

chrome plaque over the FoMoCo installed "MERCURY"

Only for 86 but not for 85. My car and I am pretty sure all other 85 coupes I have seen got the plain "Mercury" badge.

-Mike

Sandy · Post by **Sandy** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:52 am

True, but somehow I thought the topic was 1986... No ?

75coug · Post by **75coug** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:56 am

Mine is an 86 vert, and it has the ascMcLaren badge.

Rarecat · Post by **Rarecat** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:11 pm

Hell, besides the badge, now I wondering if I even have the correct Grill......mine has the 6 slats as opposed to the three as in the picture above...

I posted a pic of the grill in my Gallery

75coug · Post by **75coug** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:21 pm

Rarecat wrote:Hell, besides the badge, now I wondering if I even have the correct Grill......mine has the 6 slats as opposed to the three as in the picture above...

I posted a pic of the grill in my Gallery

Sounds like a replacement grill, since the six-slat version was gone by '85.

For pic-hosting, I use photobucket.com. It is so easy that even I figured it out, and it's free.

Post by **negusm** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:48 pm

Rarecat wrote:Hell, besides the badge, now I wondering if I even have the correct Grill......mine has the 6 slats as opposed to the three as in the picture above...

I posted a pic of the grill in my Gallery

Yeah, you have the wrong grill. It's a 79-82 grill. There's a good chance your car was hit in the front.

Sandy, in the first post he says he has an 85.

-Mike

svo413 · Post by **svo413** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:27 pm

The Special Equipment Parts List shows the grill as E5CB-8200-BA for my 85 Vert. Not sure what that looks like but it has a 3 bar plain black one now (which looks correct).

Sandy · Post by **Sandy** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:22 pm

Yes, 1985s had MERCURY, as did normal Non-McLaren Capris, right ?

Post by **negusm** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:39 pm

Sandy wrote:Yes, 1985s had MERCURY, as did normal Non-McLaren Capris, right ?

85 verts had Mercury? Or just the coupes?

ALL normal Capris had Mercury too.

-Mike