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Interesting MN12 and Fox pics

A friend of mine is into MN12s and emailed these to me, and I thought they were pretty cool. I figured it would be a good idea to share them with my good friends on here.

The first ones are a few underside shots of the Cougar XR7 AWD mule that had been planned and ended up being sped.




Next is a test mule for the Supercoupe 3.8. Apparently the car was used by the Dearborn Police Dept. but this is pretty dang cool.


Interesting MN12 and Fox pics

Reply #1
Sweet. Ford made a factory 3.8SC Fox.


Bet these cars are long-ago recycled. heh
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Reply #2
I hear the AWD SC is being restored

 

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Reply #3
I didn't know there was an AWD Cougar.  The SC is green, right?  That means there are at least two MN12 AWD cars.  Any chance you can get side shots of the Cougar, including the wheels?
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Reply #4
No all the ones I got are shown here but I can ask my buddy if he has anymore.

Edit: In doing a little looking around I found out that the wheels that went on the AWD Thunderbirds and Cougar where actually what ended up being Taurus SHO slicers.


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Reply #5
Quote from: 86XR7project;295748
No all the ones I got are shown here but I can ask my buddy if he has anymore.

Edit: In doing a little looking around I found out that the wheels that went on the AWD Thunderbirds and Cougar where actually what ended up being Taurus SHO slicers.



Ahhh, Driver side slicers!!!!
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Reply #6
Yeah, the Chinese (I think) set that worked only on the left side for two wheels and the right side for the other two. I am pretty sure I have a set on mine sitting in a field.

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Reply #7
The AWD SC has wheels like a Porsche 928.
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Reply #8
I was just relaying what I had read. As for the rims on that one didn't they use parts for the front suspension and brakes from Porsche?

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Reply #9
Quote from: 86XR7project;295755
Yeah, the Chinese (I think) set that worked only on the left side for two wheels and the right side for the other two. I am pretty sure I have a set on mine sitting in a field.


I need to get my rims powdercoated and swap on the left side slicers like it came with.
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Reply #10
I keep thinking about pulling mine out of the weeds and parting it out but I need a truck and a trailer with a winch or a good come along

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Reply #11
Nice find! I never knew they used the fox body to test the SC. Those police cars looked great!!

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Reply #12
those were some interesting pics your freind sent you, thanks for sharing them.
i wonder what trans they used for the AWD SC?
id really like to find out more about that fox tbird with the SC motor, it looks sooo factory makes you wonder why didnt they do that. probly wouldve sold a ton of them but likely wouldve ded in on the mustang sales a bit.
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Reply #13
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id really like to find out more about that fox tbird with the SC motor, it looks sooo factory makes you wonder why didnt they do that. probly wouldve sold a ton of them but likely wouldve ded in on the mustang sales a bit.


Thats probably the reason. Also would have been more expensive to build/maintain thus increasing the actual pricing of the car probably to close/higher than the mustang.
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Reply #14
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i wonder what trans they used for the AWD SC?


Probably something from their European arm. Unless I am incorrect, several of the cars in Europe were available as AWD.

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id really like to find out more about that fox tbird with the SC motor, it looks sooo factory makes you wonder why didnt they do that. probly wouldve sold a ton of them but likely wouldve ded in on the mustang sales a bit.


According to the book I have, the SC was planned fairly early for the MN12 platform. They did the installation in the Police cars because they thought it would be a great place to test the drive-train's reliability.

I'm guessing they missed something though as even the non-supercharged 3.8s had trouble with blown head gaskets!

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