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Originally Posted by mrmustang
I believe half of what is written by this unnamed fellow. The rest is carefully crafted PR and nothing else, sorry. In 1985 I spent a few days at the AC facility, I spoke with the folks on the floor who were building the MK IV's, I saw bits and pieces of the original bucks, but was told the ones they were using were built from the original blueprints, but were not the originals. Way back then, why would they lie about such things. Especially given the value of originals at that time. Fast forward to the present day when the cars are worth far more, and greed has now been added to the equation. I think you get my drift.
I'll leave it at that.
Bill S. |
I too was there in 1985. Brian, Brian, Paul, Al and Paula were the people who showed us around. And the "427/MK IV" bucks were fiberglass. The photos of the bucks and factory that were Featured in AUTOWEEK were taken by my wife. The wooden 289 bucks were there as well as other tooling but the chassis jigs had been binned by AC and had to be recreated.