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Number: 2474
From: "negusm" <negusm@y...>
Date: Mon Apr 28, 2003 9:50 pm
Subject: The plot thickens...
Body:
Well, the guy at FEP posted a pic (admittedly a tough one to see) of
the place where the back seat should be:
http://www.foureyedpride.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2391&start=15
The Cabrio by Intermeccanica had a back seat didn't it?
So this car must be another conversion. No?
-Mike
--- In ascmclaren@yahoogroups.com, "Brent Abrams" <babrams@l...>
wrote:
> Sandy,
>
> I read your letter that you sent and was posted on The Four Eyed
Pride site
> about this car.
>
> The company that you had mentioned as "Carson Concepts" is in fact
Cars &
> Concepts, they were based in Brighton, Michigan and were very much
like ASC
> in that they did a lot of prototype work for the "big three".
>
> They actually did the finish work on the production Mustang
convertibles for
> Ford from 1983-1993. In 1994 Ford went back to making convertibles
> completely in-house on the assembly line in Dearborn.
>
> They also did some other conversions that they themselves marketed
including
> a Lincoln Mark VII in the mid eighties called the GTC.
> (I always wanted one of these cars too) :)
>
> If you have a December 1985 issue of Car & Driver, there is a road
test of
> this unique Mark VII. This car was no doubt the inspiration for
the special
> edition Mark VII LSC's that were all monochromatic that were made
in the
> last couple of years before the change to the Mark VIII.
>
> Cars & Concepts was integrated with Creative Industries which was
later
> integrated with Masco Tech. I doubt that anyone that originally
was with C&C
> is there anymore but in the mid-eighties the company president was
Dave
> Draper.
>
> I hope this helps you in your search.
>
> Brent
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "negusm" <negusm@y...>
> To: <ascmclaren@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 2:59 PM
> Subject: [ASC McLaren ] This is a bit off topic...
>
>
> > I know that this is a bit off topic but a guy has a 1982
notchback
> > (converted to a vert) that has a weird almost asc top on it.
Is it
> > a cabrio?
> >
> > http://www.foureyedpride.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2391
> >
> > -Mike
> >
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