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What was the earliest month that ford produced the CSVT in?
I beleive mine was very early but I am not sure because I havent had the chance to get the EXACT date from SVT, but I do know mine was produced in May of 1997. Is that one of the earliest?
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November 12, 1996 was the day the first SVTs were built. (at least #6 and #9 were...)
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It would probably make it as an E0 but if your is in May 97 I would think it's be in the 500's. Here's my old E0 certificate. 
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I think they built a lot of them about then. According to my cert, it is # 240 and was built 4/15/97.
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Originally posted by Rouar:
November 12, 1996 was the day the first SVTs were built. (at least #6 and #9 were...)
wtf. my 97gl was built in january of 97 in kansas.
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SVT Contours were not built on the same assembly line as the regular ones. Kansas City yes, but in a different part of the facility.
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the made a few svt contours but only for show and marketing purposes, prolly 2 - 4 months after November of 96, production re-started..
dammn my car MUST be in magazines 
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Originally posted by CodeRed18s:
SVT Contours were not built on the same assembly line as the regular ones. Kansas City yes, but in a different part of the facility.
Hate to burst your bubble , but from what I was told years ago by a Ford/SVT employee , CSVTs were made on the same line , at the same time as non-SVTs . The same guys that were building the GL's , SE's & whatnot were putting the SVT's together also . An SVT could've been surrounded by base-model Contours on the line - it didn't matter . They were nothing more than just another car to the guys on the line , unfortunately . No special line , no special assemblers , no special treatment  .
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Originally posted by Buddy Palumbo:
Originally posted by CodeRed18s:
SVT Contours were not built on the same assembly line as the regular ones. Kansas City yes, but in a different part of the facility.
Hate to burst your bubble , but from what I was told years ago by a Ford/SVT employee , CSVTs were made on the same line , at the same time as non-SVTs . The same guys that were building the GL's , SE's & whatnot were putting the SVT's together also . An SVT could've been surrounded by base-model Contours on the line - it didn't matter . They were nothing more than just another car to the guys on the line , unfortunately . No special line , no special assemblers , no special treatment .
Hentz is why it was known as the poor man's BMW, Ford wanted to cheeply put together a nice comfertable 4 door performance sedan. Something that was quick, fun to drive, and could be used as a family car to go on trips in, and thats exactly what they got out of it, which would more explain why they had it on the same production line as the rest of the contours, because it was hella cheaper to do that, rather then use their SVT engineers to put them together, that would cost more labor wise. But this makes me wounder, how much different reliability wise would the SVTC be if they had used SVT engineers to put it together? Or would it be no different?
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so why was ford building 98 svtc while they were still producing 97's. or is my 97 just one of the last ones before they switched to full production of 98's
97 contour gl mtx
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