What in the hell is the name of that coil spring place that sells 'em for about $60? I want to say Esco or Eelco (I know it's not that, though).
The best place I ever found was Rare Parts in Stockton... they made some for a '50 Ford I was building... and when I said I wanted it 1 3/4" lower... they did it for me... rewound them on some machine somehow... amazing work and people to deal with. Sam.
Thanks everyone! Senility is setting in... Ironically, I worked for a place that made springs a while back. I've always wondered how they did it. What they did at this joint is stick a mandrel in the lathe the size of the minor diameter of the spring, hook the end of the wire in the madrel, and turn the lathe on a slow rotation. There's a fixture for guiding the wire onto the mandrel...you adjust your feed to make the spacing in the coils and such (for closed coils like hood springs, you use no feed, the spring will push the fixture). I imagine that a spring specialty place has a little less primitive and dangerous way of handling it, though.