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Originally posted by striker2:
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
my car has stamped all over the place about parts being built in like early October, hell even my E0's centercap have a manufacture date of September of 96..its mind boggling how early production this car is.
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Wasn't the SVT a glimpse of what the standard tours were to look like? Like mid-way through 97 they showed the SVT as "this is what the new body style will look like"?
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Interestingly the new body style came out in 96 for Europe, so I would imagine that SVT had first dibs on this from US Ford's pre-production (just wild speculation though).
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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.. "
Opps, sorry, above is why.
It is the SVT motors that are built differently, not the whole cars.
Oh, and the 1998+ wasn't a new "body style", but a new front and rear end. The bodyshell, and doors stayed the same.
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Originally posted by CodeRed18s:
"the made a few svt contours but only for show and marketing purposes, prolly 2 - 4 months after November of 96, production re-started.. "
Opps, sorry, above is why.
It is the SVT motors that are built differently, not the whole cars.
Oh, and the 1998+ wasn't a new "body style", but a new front and rear end. The bodyshell, and doors stayed the same.
The SVT plastics, newer stiffer suspension, dual exhaust and all that good stuff. Early production cars were made for the media such as magazines and other automotive tests to compare the car to which class it belongs to. Now I may not be 100% true but this is what the guy at SVT said when he told me my build number over the phone and was in shock himself. He took down my phone and home address too.
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i dunno how many are still alive from number 1 to 8
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Originally posted by SVT3Rivieres:
i dunno how many are still alive from number 1 to 8
numero 6 is on the boards, he posts here and there..
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ok.. but i doubt #1 still alive... hum maybe she's in a museum
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Originally posted by Stinky Brown Paki!:
Originally posted by SVT3Rivieres:
i dunno how many are still alive from number 1 to 8
numero 6 is on the boards, he posts here and there..
I believe he goes by "spdsk8r"
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It makes no sense to me why they would build SVT's in a different section of the factory or give them special treatment. It's just another Contour that they had to put some minor different parts on. The differences between the SVTs and the plainjane Contours were so miniscule during production,they probably hardly even noticed it was an SVT rolling down the line.
As for myself,I build the seats for thy Chrysler LX cars (300,Charger,Magnum),and we run the seats for all 3 cars down the same lines,whether they be 60/40 split rears,fullback rears,Charger,Magnum,300,power buckets,manual buckets,whatever. The only differences in our day is the occasional run of SRT-8 seats we get,which require a small amount of extra work,like making sure the proper larger bolstered foam is used,they take a few extra hog rings,you have to take more care rolling the covers,ad then when the seats are done being build,they are taken offline and ironed and finessed until they look as perfect as we can get them,whereas all other seats just roll down the line. At the Chrysler assembly plant,they run all 3 cars down the same lines as well,300s,Chargers,Magnums,and an SRT8 will follow a base model SE down the line. It's just another car to us/them,it makes no difference. I beleive all DCX assembly has to do is a little bit of paperwork for the SRT8s,like Ford did with the SVTs. Up until recently,we had tracking sheets for the SRT8 seats when we built them,but they are no longer used. As far as I know all the SRT8 cars have a limited production sequence badge in the engine bay or something,somewhere in the vehicle.
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