Matias commented:
Instead of chopping the roof in Argentina they just took a strip of body down the center. If you look the pics you will see a bar in the center of the windshield to hide the place where they cut the glass in half. Later cars had one piece windshields. The narrowed Falcons were an attempt to reduce the car's frontal section. They couldn't chop the roof like Moody did because the rule book said that the windshield had to keep the original car's angle and that the doors had to be the original height. Unfortunately for the people that wrote the rules they forgot to mention the roof in the rulebook... so the builders just took a section down the center of the car
There were several Angostados made, and some of them, also had a chop in the lenght middle, to make them shorter.
ReplyDeleteThe goal was to make a racing car, but resembling the car that Ford dealers were selling for the non race market.
Nice to know that I was able to bring something up that you had never seen before!
ReplyDeleteGreat! After 56000 posts, and 17 years, it's still possible, just not likely, to come across stuff I've never heard of or seen. When it's from other countries, it's far more likely.
DeleteIt's a big world, and a lot has been out and around, but the really interesting stuff seems to get covered by someone somewhere