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Old 01-13-2010, 10:55 PM
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You have to think along the lines of what it might look like if Ford were to have built it, or could yet. I would guess that for mass production that it might have 'lost' the transaxle in the process & been built on a Mustang or Aston Martin floorpan, remember the aussie? modular V10 convertible experiment.

But how would 'you' as a replica builder want it done, on chassis similar to what we have now, or grafted on to a donor car floorpan as intimated above. For me it would be on a chassis similar to current replicas or perhaps an alloy mono type chassis like the RCR cars adapted of course to the front engine/transaxle deal. Im not a fan of adapting to an existing unit body floorpan like some of the GTO F****** car lookalikes, too much corrosion waiting to happen when the f/glass is bonded to the steel structure & while its a relatively inexpensive way to build the car initially, in the case of accident damage its a nightmare to rebuild other than buying another donor floorpan & starting again.
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