Thread: 87 Grand Marquis 2 door build

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Originally Posted by falconvan

It's got potential; this bodystyle is growing on me. I'll bet the boneyard parts are cheap and plentiful, too.

That depends. Tudors in this body style are amoung the lowest production cars Ford built. In 87 (the last year for 2 doors) 4900 Mercs and 5800 Crown Vics were built. Early years of this body style production numbers were a bout the same. 4 doors plenty were built. Lots of them were turned in for cash for clunkers or even more ended up demo derby cars. Being the last full framed car. Most things like chrome trim, window and door rubbers, doors, etc are now made out of unobtainium. Waggons are the next most difficult to find. Been looking for the front bumper for a 86 87 for 5 or so years now. The waggons these years had an aluminum bumper. Stock steel bumper is almost 80 lbs in steel. Shure would improve my track times on a road course or autocross.

The body style kinda grew on me too as well as driving the car.

Originally Posted by turbo2256b

made out of unobtainium.

That's a popular building material for many reproduction parts.....

Installed duals using 90ish Mustang eqi length headers and off road H pipe.

Had to make some hangers based on the stock single frame mounts as replacements for either side were not available. One for the tail pipe hanger one for the muffler hanger.

Decided the car needed a new look. So I removed the front and rear bumpers and the grill. You might notice the head lite covers I made too

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pretty cool, like the stance especially from rear, nice use of wheelwell wdith little available, me samething actually machined 3/16 spacers spacers for under load conditions, read turning