My 57 T-bird has the side steady rest. Is that what everyone is talking about. My t-bird has a single front mount and a single rear mount on the tail shaft of the trans. Both on the centerline of the drivetrain. If that is the same for the cars it would seem that the steady rods would be needed to keep the drive train from rockin when under a heavy torq load. Maybe I'm readin the question wrong just my two cents.

I assumed the steady rests on T-Birds (with front timing cover and rear trans. mounts only, otherwise) were important, as my low mileage original '55 had a serious crack in one of the side-mount plates they attach to.

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Yes, we are talking about two different steady rests here. You'll need to keep the ones on a bird, AND the Front mount also. The confusion from this topic for birds comes from the same name "steady rest" but different part-similar to the front mount on your bird.

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