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Published: 2015-01-24 06:10:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 1646; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 0
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I recall Marathon built an 8-door wagon, similar to this. They billed them as "airport limousines"
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That will need a huge amount of chassis reinforcement to make it work as an actual vehicle. Unless those door pillars are made from aircraft grade titanium alloy, there's no way they'll keep that structure from sagging if people actually sit in that car. Facel Vega found out the hard way about the need for chassis reinforcement with one of their suicide door models, which sagged if you opened all four doors, and needed jacking up if you wanted to shut the doors again.
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They did work, they were used as airport limos and were very functional.
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Checker made many of these as well.
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Bet the chassis had a LOT of underfloor reinforcement to avoid the Facel Vega problem ...
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Yep, one reason why such vehicles like limos and hearses are so heavy. All the added steel for reinforcement on both the chassis and body.
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If you ever have the change to check out a Facel Vega, have fun watching what happens when there isn't enough chassis reinforcement to stop the body sagging
Pity they messed up on that one ... 390 BHP in a car dating from 1960 was quite something ...
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Yeah I'll have to look that up
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