I realised something today

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I realised something today

September 22, 2007, 05:36:09 PM

I was outside mowing the lawn and I walked past the car. I finished that pass then went past again, this time seeing the trunk. It came to me at that point...... we don't have a ford logo on the car. Atleast on mine. I have Thunderbird on the truck, the Tbird's on the C piller and grill, then 3 fila logo's on the EXT. Then I have the MN12 centercaps. Just figured I'd share with everyone else:toilet:

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Reply #1 – September 22, 2007, 06:11:47 PM

yea, i thought that was weird too. the difference between you and I, is that I realized that about 30-40 mintues after purchacing the bird...you took a little while longer. lol. it really is odd though. maybe because the name thunderbird is so synonomis(sp) with ford? like 'corvette', you dont need a chevy badge to know what it is. but that is a guess and only a guess.

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Reply #2 – September 22, 2007, 06:43:32 PM

None of them have the Mercury waterfall or ford logo.. other than the sill panels.

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Reply #3 – September 22, 2007, 07:01:59 PM

Yeah I kinda like it that way too.. shows these cars are special enough not to share a logo with other models.

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Reply #4 – September 22, 2007, 07:05:41 PM

True dat. I wasn't complaining either. I just look at the Vic and see a ford logo on the grill and trunk, ford logo on the center caps, ford logo on the steering wheel..... All I have that say ford are my valve covers

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Reply #5 – September 22, 2007, 09:27:44 PM

T-Birds from the beginning never had the Ford logo until the MN12's.

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Reply #6 – September 22, 2007, 10:24:44 PM

look at new cars nowadays... they HAVE TO have an emblem to tell em apart.

back then, you KNEW what you were lookin at.

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Reply #7 – September 23, 2007, 12:35:42 AM

Quote from: 87thunderbirdBlackJack;177899

look at new cars nowadays... they HAVE TO have an emblem to tell em apart.

back then, you KNEW what you were lookin at.

Point in case, the new Ford, Chevy, and Toyota trucks. I swear that if someone were to take the grilles out, you could barely tell the differences between them. At least Dodge has it right, and makes a distinguishable truck.:raspberry

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Reply #8 – September 23, 2007, 01:58:10 AM

Quote from: venom_cat_86;177928

Point in case, the new Ford, Chevy, and Toyota trucks. I swear that if someone were to take the grilles out, you could barely tell the differences between them. At least Dodge has it right, and makes a distinguishable truck.:raspberry

Yup, just by looking to see which ones are broke down on the side of the road.

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Reply #9 – September 23, 2007, 08:52:57 AM

Meh, the Mercury logo sucks. I'm sooo happy that they put the cougar head in the grill instead of the Mercury badge. That would have ruined the look of the car. The logo is situated in the only place it belongs, the owners manual.

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Reply #10 – September 23, 2007, 11:12:53 AM

That's why I hat the MN12's so much. They're so bland that they broke 33 years of tradition on the Thunderbird and stuck a Ford emblem on it.

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Reply #11 – September 24, 2007, 09:26:22 AM

Since I first got my car, that was one of my favorite features of the TC. No Ford emblem. My MN-12 didn't have one either, as someone replaced the Ford blue oval with a Thunderbird blue oval before I bought it.

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Reply #12 – September 24, 2007, 02:40:51 PM

Quote from: softtouch;177890

T-Birds from the beginning never had the Ford logo until the MN12's.

They didn't have logos, but some said "Ford" on 'em. I remember one my brother had (think it was a '74 - white, white leather interior, 460 engine) that had F-O-O-D on the header panel. Somebody before him had a sense of humour...

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Reply #13 – September 24, 2007, 02:59:42 PM

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Meh, the Mercury logo sucks. I'm sooo happy that they put the cougar head in the grill instead of the Mercury badge. That would have ruined the look of the car. The logo is situated in the only place it belongs, the owners manual.

Bite me...that logo ROCKS.

For many years the Cougar was the flagship of Lincoln-Mercury division's advertising. Therefore it technically didn't need any kind of Mercury logo. I don't think the newer stylized "M" logo existed until 1984, anyway. The only aero Cougars to get Mercury "M" logos were on the Blue Max/SE's C-pillar emblems. Otherwise it was just trunk and bumper nomenclature. Which is cool...it's nice to have a car whose logo is so unique that it needs no other help.

Before that, from the early 1970's until 1983, there really was no direction to Mercury, therefore it never had a real, unifying logo. I remember the shield/dot thing on the Monarch or Zephyr that probably ended up on several cars. But really, think about it...there was nothing to designate a Mercury other than the scripty letters and the waterfall grille.

Before that it was the Mercury god head, which most auto critics state is one of the coolest car logos evah. Merc brought it back for the recent Marauder...personally I can take it or leave it. I respect the link to the past, to the art nouveau movement in creating auto nomenclature, to a time when things were simpler. But it doesn't raise the ol' bone flagpole.

To me, the "real" Mercury logo will always be that stylized "M", because that's when the aero Cats were born, and when I first started getting into these cars, and that logo symbolizes the new aero direction of Mercury. It was totally new, unexpected, flowing, and very 1980's.

Hmmm...maybe one of these days, I'll put a motion sensor on the "M" logo in the Mountaineer, so that when someone walks by the front of the truck, a loudspeaker will start playing A Flock Of Seagulls. Definitely "Wishing".

Yeah.

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Reply #14 – September 24, 2007, 03:35:10 PM

I gotta say I like that old Mercury head logo too....but also the waterfall one. I actually identified that with Mercury hand-in-hand because at maybe 12 yrs old they were still using it obviously.

I very much like the uniqueness of the cougar having its own logo, I really like how big the emblem is in the 87/88 grille, coming down the road I know when I see another 87/88 because of that!!!

Wow Eric you really remind me a lot of this other dude on a computer hardware forum I used to go to a lot...theres a member there who has an 85 brown corvette convertible and his license plate is literally "80SRULE". Whats weird is hes one year older than me, he didnt experience the decade at all but he obviously likes everything about it...I almost feel sorry for ya you probably wish from time to time you could go back right? If anything it sure was a good time for the auto industry, at least after '82.