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| 'FE' the final truth.... |
| By John - 12/06/2004 6:51:54 PM; IP 142.177.41.56 |
OK......this has gone on so long, I feel I have to finally yield the results of my years of research. First of all, nice tactful reponse Mr. F, for a long, and often hotly debated issue, even though Ken wasn't really asking for a resolution.
So...FE does NOT stand for Ford Edsel, Ford Engine, chemical symbol for Iron, etc. It actually stands for "Foundry Error". You see, at the time, Ford was working on it's prototype slant-4. Not sure if they wanted clockwise or counterclockwise rotation, mirror image molds were made. Then some poor bugger at the foundry actually got the molds mixed up...right and left halves at least, .... and then purely by accident the FE was born. Sad to say, that poor lad got the sack. Too bad, as he is mainly responsible for the FE and and the heyday of Ford's racing days. Oh well, rumour has it Chev hired him, but he failed to goof up there and the Corvette program never really did get successful. |
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