An ascMcLaren forum for 84-86 Capri and 87-90 Mustang based cars modified by Automotive Speciality Corporation, a Division of American Sunroof Corporation. (no affiliation)
I just posted 2 pictures in the Album sections. One in the 86 Conv section and the other one is in the 86 Coupe section.Sorry it took me a few extra days to complete. I'm a little bit on the slow side and mentally challenged !
I took these pictures at the Detroit Auto Show in Jan 1986.
Wish I could have seen one of these cars new. Didn't know they existed until the late nineties, but I always loved Capris. Takes news a while to get down to Texas.
Is that Coupe green, or is it black with the lighting playing tricks?
1986 ASC vert - #86-0001
1986 ASC vert - 3.8SC v6
1986 ASC vert - Silver/Black/Gray
1985 ASC vert - Black/Tan/Tan
1985 GPIV - The Official Pace Car
1985 ASC coupe - modified
1985 ASC coupe - roller
1983 Crimson Cat V6
1966 Cobra replica
The pictures are from the Auto Show in Detroit. I remember taking a stack of brochures that day on the coupe and drop top. Also they do look green, but I'm pretty sure they our black.
plumkrazy wrote:
You sure you didnt take the pictures at AUTORAMA? I never saw old cars at the AUTO SHOW.
I'm inclined to agree. Those Camaros in the back aren't something I've ever seen at the Detroit Auto Show. It's also very open.
Until very recently, the Auto Show was a huge marketing push with displays, concepts, models, new product, etc.--and specifically designed more or less to block a good view of other cars from each vendors area.
I did see a hacked together black Coupe at Krug LM in May-June of '86 in Dearborn with an auto, cruise--even the CAPRI letters on the hood (some were even missing) that had a tiny after-market sunroof. Looked awful.
They were representing it as an ASC Coupe, though all it had ASC were the stripes, ground effects, tail, maybe the quarter windows. It wasn't a EuroCoupe because it didn't have that stripe and it had OEM wheels, as I recall.
I never saw old cars at the AUTO SHOW.
