Reply to "Engine Compartment"

charliemccallMember

quote:
Originally posted by SoCal:
European cars had the angular engine compartments and the US spec cars came with the rounded engine compartments. Why? I don't know, but I'm sure someone on this board knows.

The answer was sort of given, but during the Ford era the engine compartment panels were stamped. When Ford and DeTomaso had their falling out, the dies were destroyed. So DeTomaso continued for a while using the remaining body panels, but when that supply dried up, roughly 1978, he had those panels fabricated instead of stamped.

So in a sense, it was fabricated in someone's garage, but in a sort of industrial sense. He obviously couldn't justify the tooling costs to duplicate the dies considering the low volume of post-Ford era cars that were being made.

3/29/083:09 AM

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