Longest Day of Nelson Ledges
01L2Cobra
12-07-2005, 04:34 PM
Here is some history for you younger guys and a reminder of how things once were for those old enough to remember the SVO.
Ford did an extraordinary thing back in the early 80s - and very few people know about it anymore. Engineers from the Ford development team took their prototypes to Nelson Ledges to foster their development by racing them in a 24-hour endurance event. GM and Chrysler didn't do anything like this, although European automakers did. Ford wanted the experience of the endurance race, good or bad, and knew that it offered an absolutely unique environment that their own test labs couldn't match.
These were the days of people like Donald Peterson - who created the relationship with Bondurant and jump-started the company we know today. The events of these few years - the revitalization of the Mustang, the creation of the SVO, and of course the establishment of the SVO parts catalog - created the entire performance aftermarket phenomenon that we take for granted today. Even though the Mustang SVO was ultimately a marketing failure, it established a chain of events that directly led to the creation of SVT.
http://www.jwfisher.com/sec%2Dford/FMC%2Dcars/platform%2Dfox%2Dfox4/svo/
Ford did an extraordinary thing back in the early 80s - and very few people know about it anymore. Engineers from the Ford development team took their prototypes to Nelson Ledges to foster their development by racing them in a 24-hour endurance event. GM and Chrysler didn't do anything like this, although European automakers did. Ford wanted the experience of the endurance race, good or bad, and knew that it offered an absolutely unique environment that their own test labs couldn't match.
These were the days of people like Donald Peterson - who created the relationship with Bondurant and jump-started the company we know today. The events of these few years - the revitalization of the Mustang, the creation of the SVO, and of course the establishment of the SVO parts catalog - created the entire performance aftermarket phenomenon that we take for granted today. Even though the Mustang SVO was ultimately a marketing failure, it established a chain of events that directly led to the creation of SVT.
http://www.jwfisher.com/sec%2Dford/FMC%2Dcars/platform%2Dfox%2Dfox4/svo/
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