[Shotimes] cutting vent holes in the header panel

[Donald Mallinson]

Just the same as any taxi or maybe towing package "just 
happened" to get the grill.  What you call it is your 
choice, but it is now and has been commonly known as the 
Police grill, although I am pretty sure, that before this 
thread started, everyone knew it was available elsewhere. 
Now they are doubly aware.

My entire point was that you said it was "incorrectly" 
called the police grill, and that is NOT wrong.  It IS on 
the police package, also on other packages.

Ford somehow didn't merge the 92-95 cars into Gen I till 
they did the "gen IV" (now Gen III in "Ford speak")Taurus. 
I suspect that they decided that going to FOUR generations 
would make it even more obvious that they were using the 
same basic car for even longer.  So they magically merged a 
few years so it doesn't sound so bad.  (thinking like a 
promotion/ad guy here).

Don Mallinson

Ron Porter wrote:
> It's just like the SHO community calling the '92-'95 cars Gen 2s, when they
> are Gen 1s in Ford's eyes. Basic point is, you can call it whatever you
> want, but it was not a piece that was specific to Police cars, it just
> happened to be part of an option package that was included on Police cars.
> 
> Ron Porter 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Donald Mallinson
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:56 AM
> To: Shotimes
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] cutting vent holes in the header panel
> 
> 
> I don't believe so, but you can bet that the cars in that 
> movie were NOT actual "police package" cars.
> 
> There never were hundreds of thousands of Taurus police 
> cars, like there have been caprice and Crown Vic cars that 
> are worn out and cheap and all over the place.
> 
> The Taurus cars in that movie were probably either provided 
> by Ford for the publicity, or all well used cars.
> 
> The actual "police" model kit has the car with the police 
> grill, but I think they do it with decals over the stock grill.
> 
> I have two different versions of the "robocop" Taurus model. 
> (same model, different box picture) and they don't show the 
> police grill.
> 
> And about what to call it.  Even by Ron's standards, it is 
> no more wrong to call it the police grill than to call it 
> the towing package, taxi or heavy duty package grill.
> 
> He can call it anything, but the SHO community will forever 
> know it, and properly so, as the Police grill.
> 
> Don Mallinson
> 
> bjshov8 wrote:
> 
>>Did they have these grilles in "Robocop"?
>>
>>
>>
>>>We had lots of taurus police cars in city and county use in 
>>>the midwest.  Although there are few taxi's in our area, so 
>>>I never saw one of those, doesn't mean they don't exist.
>>
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