Bracing shock towers?

Correct me If I'm wrong but isn't the tabs for the upper control arm on an A body welded to the FRAME RAIL ??? The upper shock mount stands alone and has very little loading on it .

I'll have to crawl under my dart and look at it closely but bracing the top of the shock tower is pretty much useless if you ask me . I would think a bar that goes down to the frame rail just ahead of the front upper control arm mount would be more beneficial .

On the flip side I had a 69 Dart GTS 440 car that was turned into a full on drag car back in the early 80's by a previous owner , the only think between the cowl and the core support was the FRONT FENDERS , just the shock tower sticking up , NO INNER FENDERS what so ever and NO ADDED SUPPORTS . The car only had a BOLT IN 6 point bar . The windshield was the original best I could tell and nothing APPEARED to be bent , doors opened fine and the gaps looked ok . Jim Rhinehart has the car now , I traded it toward my 383 GTS .

I expected the car to be trashed because of that , it was raced for years like that . I would NOT have done something like that though .

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