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beachbum
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posted 01-28-2003 11:13 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for beachbum     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I installed a new chrome export brace with new upper shock tower brackets and was wondering why it's called an export brace, just don't get the relationship. Could anyone enlighten me,thanks.

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Hell_Fish
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posted 01-28-2003 11:17 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Hell_Fish   Click Here to Email Hell_Fish     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It was used on factory cars over seas. I.E export cars.

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69 Sportsroof
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posted 01-28-2003 12:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for 69 Sportsroof   Click Here to Email 69 Sportsroof     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Hell_Fish:
It was used on factory cars over seas. I.E export cars.


Yep. The shipping process seemed to cause the shock towers to shift so these were added.

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cynot65
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posted 01-28-2003 01:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for cynot65   Click Here to Email cynot65     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I believe that the one piece brace was also installed because of the crappy roads that the Europeans have to drive on, It gave the export Ponies half a chance to survive some pretty nasty roads.
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Moneymaker
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posted 01-28-2003 01:24 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Moneymaker   Click Here to Email Moneymaker     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by cynot65:
I believe that the one piece brace was also installed because of the crappy roads that the Europeans have to drive on, It gave the export Ponies half a chance to survive some pretty nasty roads.
Tony C*


Tony is correct. Early European and South American exported Mustangs suffered severe suspension damage on the poor roads.
The boat rides weren't that bad. FoMoCo put dramamine in the tanks.

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posted 01-28-2003 01:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for 2bav8   Click Here to Email 2bav8     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
LOL

They do make a difference too. Well worth the cost of dramamine

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Fastback68
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posted 01-28-2003 02:12 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Fastback68   Click Here to Email Fastback68     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Something has never quite sat right with me when it comes to this old story about the quality of the roads in Europe. Rather than being a case of terrible roads, might it have been because of the large number of COBBLED roads in some parts of Europe? Just a thought ...
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SteveLaRiviere
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posted 01-28-2003 02:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SteveLaRiviere   Click Here to Email SteveLaRiviere     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Cobbled roads ARE bad roads. We have them up here in our touristy area. In a local major town they tore out some nice tarmack to expose the cobble stone surface. It looks nice but driving over it stinks!

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posted 01-28-2003 02:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Moneymaker   Click Here to Email Moneymaker     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
OK, OK, gang. What's a early Mustang anyway?
A Falcon correct?
FoMoCo began racing Falcons in European road ralleys in 1963. They already knew that would happen to the shock towers and suspensions of the cars from that experiance.

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indyphil
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posted 01-28-2003 03:09 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for indyphil   Click Here to Email indyphil     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I think perhaps it might be as much due to the type of road rather than "quality" of road encountered overseas. Europeans and South americans drive fast on a lot of tight twisty narrow roads, and that demands the export brace. Same reason why racing in this country involves straight lines or ovals, and yet elsewhere, F1 or rallying is the most popular sport.

I dont remember any "crappy" roads or "nasty" roads when I was there. Only beautiful SMOOTH winding roads with high speed limits, scenery and Fewer Redneck cops with a fetish for their radar gun. Meaning tight responsive predictable "handling" is the order of the day in european cars. Hence the need for a brace.

I wasnt there in 1966, but if I was I would have been too busy looking at the miniskirts to notice the roads...

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Fastback68
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posted 01-28-2003 06:58 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Fastback68   Click Here to Email Fastback68     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well Phil, your description would certainly fit the Monte Carlo Rallye and I believe Shelbies raced there. Alex, any idea if Falcons also competed?

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posted 01-28-2003 07:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Moneymaker   Click Here to Email Moneymaker     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Falcons were there long before Mustangs.
The won several times in 1963, 64, and 65.

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Fastback68
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posted 01-29-2003 05:46 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Fastback68   Click Here to Email Fastback68     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
You're not wrong! There are loads of huge pics of 1964 "Falcon" Mustangs at Monte Carlo right here ...
http://www.t16.ds.pwr.wroc.pl/~sosnek/foto/stare/index0002.html
I see the late great Graham Hill drove one.

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posted 01-29-2003 04:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Moneymaker   Click Here to Email Moneymaker     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Fastback68:
You're not wrong!
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