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Originally Posted by J P Stein
Looking good....even in the rain.
I'm gonna have to drag out the welder. The spot welding is indifferent at best.
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The car was one of Fords first unibody designs and were spot welded together BUT because they made a million of them in the first 18 months production ( instead of the 200,000 they were set up for they were pushing them out too fast to be very precise with the welding.
I have seen original cars with a spring hanger bracket with 5 or 6 welds and only 3 or 4 hit the piece underneath . The same car was missing the factory undercoating in one wheelwell,because the line worker was probably in the can and no one was there to replace him the line just kept moving.
My brother in law worked at a local Ford plant in those days. He still laughs about the car which reached the line end (complete with all quality control stickers on the windshield. It wouldn't start because someone forgot to install the engine. True storey haha