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Technical => Body/Appearance/Interior => Topic started by: 83Heritage on July 28, 2007, 10:12:53 AM

Title: Rare trunk lid?
Post by: 83Heritage on July 28, 2007, 10:12:53 AM
I was describing this trunk lid to people at CJ last night, really no one had ever heard of or seen one of them, so I thought that I would post some pics for everyone to enjoy. It has the continental spare tire hump in it. (in case you can't tell from the pics.)
Title: Rare trunk lid?
Post by: grutinator on July 28, 2007, 10:33:32 AM
i think that was an option from the dealer, not an actually factory thing. idk if its rare, but its definatly uncommon
Title: Rare trunk lid?
Post by: P71 on July 28, 2007, 11:08:27 AM
It's a Lincoln Mark VII lid.
Title: Rare trunk lid?
Post by: Davemutt on July 28, 2007, 11:29:24 AM
Definitely not a Mark VII lid - unless it's been seriously modified...
Title: Rare trunk lid?
Post by: P71 on July 28, 2007, 11:54:25 AM
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/47/157671809_0e861c6ec8.jpg?v=0)

Wow, they really are different! Yup, it's rare!
Title: Rare trunk lid?
Post by: ipsd on July 28, 2007, 01:39:04 PM
I guess that Deck lid was for the ThunderMark II LOL That is some cool stuff.
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Post by: vinnietbird on July 28, 2007, 03:20:42 PM
Cool.I wouldn't want it on my car,but it is cool.
Title: Rare trunk lid?
Post by: jncocowboyx on July 28, 2007, 03:37:40 PM
Quote from: vinnietbird;164083
Cool.I wouldn't want it on my car,but it is cool.


+1
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Post by: Prototype Services on July 28, 2007, 06:48:51 PM
It was the ThunderFalconBirdMarkVII.
I -think- I saw one around Canton or Livonia Michigan about 85-86. It is for a four-eye, right? I had just begun admiring the Cats-Birds-Lincolns then but I'm pretty sure I saw a Bird with this decklid.
Any details?
Title: Rare trunk lid?
Post by: 88sportcoupe on July 28, 2007, 10:01:08 PM
From coolcats:
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***There were a few companies offering modified trunklids for the 1983-86 Cougars that had the identical half-round hump found on the Lincoln Mark VII. Different, if anything. I've also seen them on newer Continentals, Town Cars, and the Grand Marquis. Someone is still producing them, and in fact may have done the ones for our cars.
http://www.coolcats.net/tech/general/fact.html (http://"http://www.coolcats.net/tech/general/fact.html")
(http://www.coolcats.net/tech/general/images/hump.jpg)
Title: Rare trunk lid?
Post by: 83Heritage on July 28, 2007, 10:34:58 PM
Quote from: Prototype Services;164108
It is for a four-eye, right? Any details?
All I know about it is it came on my ’83 when I bought it, and it is made of fiberglass, and extremely light. You can pretty much tuck it under one arm and walk around with it.
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Post by: P71 on July 29, 2007, 12:09:23 AM
The steel ones are light as heck too. Slap a magnet on there...
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Post by: Cougars 2 go on July 30, 2007, 08:44:34 PM
That looks to be a very well made piece. I love it.
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Post by: Cad-T-Bird 500 on July 30, 2007, 09:32:28 PM
How much do you want for the truck lid?
TED
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Post by: EricCoolCats on July 30, 2007, 11:12:24 PM
There was a trunklid identical to that at Carlisle a few years ago. Interestingly, I've seen aftermarket trunklids on Mark VII's without the factory hump. It looks much better. :flame:

Where Ric got his sunroof in '85 (Roman Chariot in Cleveland), they were selling the steel versions of this humpy lid for our cars. So humpy lids could be either steel or fiberglass...no real way to tell the difference at a glace, just have to thump it to find out.
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Post by: CougarSE on July 30, 2007, 11:16:51 PM
My humpy is steel.
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Post by: Cougars 2 go on July 30, 2007, 11:32:07 PM
I only like it for the 83-86 TBird because it looks so much like the Mark7 concept that if executed right, could be installed on a TBird and look very cool.  A lot of thought and tasteful execution would have to occur to the rest of the car but I think that decklid could look killer on a early Fox Bird.
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Post by: Autocat on July 31, 2007, 07:26:13 AM
it has the red pinstripe.. did it not come off a black sport coupe?  b/c my car came with the same style pin stripping.
Title: Rare trunk lid?
Post by: 83Heritage on July 31, 2007, 07:38:48 AM
Quote from: Cad-T-Bird 500;164704
How much do you want for the truck lid?
TED

It not for sale, just wanted to people to see something that is uncommon.

Quote from: Autocat;164864
it has the red pinstripe.. did it not come off a black sport coupe?  b/c my car came with the same style pin stripping.


It came on my '83 Heritage when I bought it. My car is black with the red pinstripe.
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Post by: slamedcat on July 31, 2007, 08:04:19 AM
My parents neighbor had an 86 bird with that lid on it when I was a kid. I never really thought to much of it.
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Post by: Autocat on July 31, 2007, 09:10:11 AM
hmm i always thought pinstripes like that were dealer options.  i got a blue rally stripe b/c the front looks so bad.  makes me wanna put the red stripe.
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