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From: "Brent Abrams"
Date: Tue Jun 15, 2004  3:17 pm
Subject: Re: [ASC McLaren ] Door Handles and Locks

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Re: [ASC McLaren ] Door Handles and Locks

Mike

Both my 1984 & 1985 books say black, however my 1986 book says they are
Charcoal like the rest of the trim.

I find this odd though, it seems that they wouldn't have made a color change
on an item like that going into the last year of production.

I just brought my car home from storage today so I will have to look at it
and see what color mine are and I will get those pictures taken of the hood
pad for you too.

Brent

----- Original Message -----
From: "negusm" <negusm@y...>
To: <ascmclaren@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [ASC McLaren ] Door Handles and LocksAll the cars appear to have black (not grey) door handled but I
can't quite exactly be 100% sure by the pictures since the grey is
so close to black.

Problem is, I went looking through all the 85-86 coupes and its
about half and half for chrome vs black lock cylinders.

As far as the interior PW bezels even Sandy has said that they are
to be black but all sorts of mistakes got through.

I think that the outer locks may have had the same problem. All
stemming from the fact that these cars being ordered as GSs but
built to RS specs. The assembly line guys probably weren't sure
what to do.

However, if the intention was for them to be black, I can either
paint them or install a NOS black topped set I have.

http://www.ascmclarencoupe.com/Literature/FordBrochures/85MercurySale
smanGuide_Early_54-55.jpg

I know it says black but the book I have was lat 1984 and maybe had
carryover info.

-Mike



--- In ascmclaren@yahoogroups.com, "Brent Abrams" <babrams@l...>
wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Without looking it up, I would have thought for sure the door
handles and
> locks would have been Dark Charcoal, BUT after looking in the
Salesmans
> Source Book for 1985 is clearly states "Black door handles and lock
> cylinders".
>
> As for the PW switches, bezels and the lock cylinder, those are
definitely
> black.
>
> Brent
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "negusm" <negusm@y...>
> To: <ascmclaren@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 12:36 PM
> Subject: [ASC McLaren ] Door Handles and Locks
>
>
> OK....on a 1985 coupe...
>
> So should the door locks be BLACK or CHROME or Dark Charcoal?
> Should the door handles be BLACK or CHROME or Dark Charcoal?
>
> I believe the PW bezels are supposed to be black. I think I had
> half and half at one point. I have black ones to replace the
chrome.
>
> I have a silver ignition cylinder now but I know for a fact it was
> black (I changed it when the original was having problems) so I
> assume that is to be black too.
>
> -Mike
>
>
>
>
>
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