Building a Special Body

[Ian Williams]

I have finally found time to do some work on my own car again and have got the chassis modifications complete. The nose piece is boxed in the same way as the we did on the Joss Campbell special, the main rails are boxed with extensions to buttress the crossmember's, the central stiffer has been extended and repeated to provide mounting for the sill's, stressed under tray, and support the floor either side of the removable transmission tunnel. I have altered the damper mounting bracket position moving them up inside the undertray line and backwards allowing the damper arm's to be shortened by just over an inch, there is another fixed arm copied in design from that used in a Hartford type damper. The whole thing is fixed together with hundreds of hot rivet's and I have attempted to keep the weight of the additions to a minimum, all up as you see it in these pictures the weight is 66lbs according to my scales.