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Ford Tricked NASCAR With a Fake Taurus Prototype and IT WORKED! (with Don Miller)

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Don Miller, former Penske President, recounts how Ford Motor Company provided Penske Racing with a brand new Ford Taurus. The intention was to modify this production car to meet NASCAR's silhouette rules while optimizing its aerodynamics. However, Ford was not informed of the full extent of the planned modifications. The team's strategy was to present a significantly altered car to NASCAR as an early production model.

Goal: Obtain a Ford Taurus for modification while keeping the full modification plan undisclosed to the manufacturer.

Tools and materials

  • Ford Taurus — The base vehicle for modification into a NASCAR prototype

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don't know ford motor company gave us a brand new taurus at the time we said we really didn't tell them what we were going to do but because i think they probably would have frowned on it but what we did was they brought it back to the race shop well what do you want to do down i said well actually what we want to do is come up right right from this spot where you can see all the the uh broken up bodywork we're going to cut the car off and we cut it off right here just cut it right across here and onto the other side took the whole back of the end of the car off and then we made new quarter panels because as you can see the deck lid is raised up about three inches so so what we had to do is put a piece in here and then we made this whole lower section of a rear bumper etc and kind of blunted it off so that you know we could really take advantage of the arrow effect and then took the existing deck lid and right and straightened it out put the tail lights and everything back in it put this panel here which was really

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