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Old 01-20-2021, 08:31 PM   #1781
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Old 01-21-2021, 08:20 AM   #1782
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Cool pics Doug, my friend had the Daytona Turbo Z and we loved that car, didn't know they had a Shelby model, my sister had a Shelby Charger back in the 80's.
LOL, I traded in a black Shelby Charger for the Daytona

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Old 01-21-2021, 05:24 PM   #1783
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While I owned the Daytona, I ordered a 91 Ford Exploder, 2 door Eddie Baur edition WITH a 5 speed stick.

Found a picture of it too, playing a little in the snow
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Old 01-21-2021, 06:29 PM   #1784
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While I owned the Daytona, I ordered a 91 Ford Exploder, 2 door Eddie Baur edition WITH a 5 speed stick.

Found a picture of it too, playing a little in the snow
Funny. My ex had one of those.
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Old 01-21-2021, 06:48 PM   #1785
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My brother had that Bronco too, in Blue and tan ... were you a bouncer back in the day, you look like you could flip that truck on its side if you wanted to
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While I owned the Daytona, I ordered a 91 Ford Exploder, 2 door Eddie Baur edition WITH a 5 speed stick.

Found a picture of it too, playing a little in the snow
Cool -

We had one for many years (4 door Eddie Bauer 1992). Had it through 180,000 miles. Sold it when we got the Yukon (and then had that for 280,000 miles - lol).

As to the 'Exploder' - Never had anything go wrong with it. NOT anything done other than routine maintenance - outside a fuel pressure regulator once.. if I recall correctly.
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Old 01-22-2021, 08:55 AM   #1787
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Cool -

We had one for many years (4 door Eddie Bauer 1992). Had it through 180,000 miles. Sold it when we got the Yukon (and then had that for 280,000 miles - lol).

As to the 'Exploder' - Never had anything go wrong with it. NOT anything done other than routine maintenance - outside a fuel pressure regulator once.. if I recall correctly.
My neighbor's Exploder did the interior fire thing from the bad cruise control circuit/button on the steering wheel fault. She was very lucky that it caught fire outside and clear of her house.

On mine, I had a rear brake shoe failure while parked in my garage. Trying to back out of the driveway caused the axle/hub to completely lock up. The exploder had backed out about two feet when it locked up, which meant the rear tire was right next to the frame of the garage door. This prevented me from removing the tire to see WTF was going on. A tow truck had to drag it the rest of the way out of the garage.

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Old 01-22-2021, 09:03 AM   #1788
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My brother had that Bronco too, in Blue and tan ... were you a bouncer back in the day, you look like you could flip that truck on its side if you wanted to
LOL, funny you should mention that. I briefly worked as a "bouncer". I'm sure you had heard of the Capitol Theatre in Passaic NJ? Jukes used to play there most New Years Eve back in the late 70's early 80's. When the Jukes were not on the road, I would work concerts there. Sometimes working the front door crew, sometimes working the stage crew. (stage crew was much more pay, work, and fun)

There also used to be a great rock club called the Fast Lane in Asbury Park. I never "worked" there, but hung out a lot and new the owner and manager very well. If there was ever an issue there and people needed to be moved outside, the crew there knew who I was, and I would step in to help get problems outside.
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