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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: omegod on 16 April 2011, 21:54:41

Title: TVR workers thread
Post by: omegod on 16 April 2011, 21:54:41

Came across this and have lost about 3 hrs reading it,

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=13&t=342602&mid=0&i=0&nmt=Factory+photos&mid=0

Maybe I am sad but I really enjoyed it

Title: Re: TVR workers thread
Post by: Kevin Wood on 17 April 2011, 01:25:15

Very interesting..

There goes our car industry. :'(

Title: Re: TVR workers thread
Post by: Ken T on 17 April 2011, 09:31:12

Those ladder chassis look very substantial, very well triangulated. Some of the early kit cars had a frame that was basically two rails from front to back and that was it !.

Ken

Title: Re: TVR workers thread
Post by: aaronjb on 17 April 2011, 10:20:49

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Those ladder chassis look very substantial, very well triangulated. Some of the early kit cars had a frame that was basically two rails from front to back and that was it !.

Some of them still are! I've been comparing Cobra replica chassis recently and they range from this:

(http://www.cobrettiviperv8.com/image/v8%20chassis%202.JPG)

(Which apparently is surprisingly stiff, can't see it myself!)

To this:

(http://www.cobraclub.com/gallery/data/500/IMG_8217.jpeg)

Or if you have a lot of money:
(http://kirkhammotorsports.com/mfg/images/kirkframe002x5.jpg)

And those are all currently available kits - some of them really are 'form over function' in terms of 'looks nice with the body on, probably handles like a wet fish', which makes choosing one rather hard indeed!


Oops.. bit of a drift there, sorry!