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Color: White
Owner:Crushed |
 All that is left of the car. |
A sad story to a rare car. It appears this car was stolen twice, junked, and then crushed at a Cincinnati, OH junkyard.
This was probably the Mercury Motor City 100 pace car. It also served as the back up pace car used during the Grand Prix.
The car was equipped with the red sport interior & an automatic transmission making it 1 of a kind.
Only one other car has been documented with the red interior.
Also there is only 1 other car with an automatic transmission. That car is believed to be the back up safety car (which has the gray interior).
Both of the back ups had automatic transmissions, while the main pace car & safety car had 5-Speeds.
The car had the white Motorcraft front bumper decal and the Bendix Brakes door decals along with other decals that were only for the pace cars & safety cars. The decals were added by Ford/Mercury after Graphik Concepts added all the main decals, but before the Grand Prix. Those decals were made specifically for the 3 or 4 cars that the public would see the most.
Sometime during or shortly after the race weekend, the car was stolen. An auto body shop in Cincinnati, OH that specialized in restoration of classic Mustangs bought the car as a stolen recovery sometime during the mid to late 80’s. The car had front-end damage from an accident and a tore up interior from the theft.
The car also supposedly had a powerful motor that had lot of modifications, yet the motor was completely original. Items such as pistons with porcelain coating & an altered intake were a couple of things different from a stock engine.
During the body restoration an ASC McLaren front air dam was put on instead of the correct RS air dam. The owner thought that the car should have the front air dam due to it already having the side & rear skirts on it. Decals were a problem since there were no Ford part numbers for them. Unable to locate the correct decals, the car received alternate decals on the sections that were repainted. A few of the original decals did remain after the paint job.
Sometime in the mid 90’s, the car was stolen again. Sometime later it ended up at a Cincinnati area junkyard where it sat for a few years. Many attempts were made to purchase the car from the yard but the owner always refused to sell the car. The reason told was that it was too far back in the yard. Real reason was that the car was still listed as stolen by the owner. Sometime around 2004/05 it was crushed.
