Here's the story, I have a '37 Packard I want to bring into the modern world with an LS1. Fat Man made a front-end stub for this car that allowed mounting a Chevy and Mustang 2 suspension. With Fat Man gone, is there anyone else?
This would be a good business opportunity for someone. The Mustang II stuff is decent, but it hasn’t been m*** produced for 40 years, and it’s a little bit light duty to begin with. I wonder if there is another alternative to it that would work well.
It would have to Adapt to straight frame rails or rectangular tubing Carry roughly 2800-4000 vehicle front end (accept a few different springs, hopefully air ride) Not intrude too much inside or above the rails (no struts) Allow for alignment and possibly different steering choices Have decent modern design with anti-dive, etc. Readily available and reasonable replacement parts for the next couple decades (m*** produced) I haven't paid attention to cars and light trucks of the past 5-10 years, I can't think of a high production RWD car or truck that fits this. later Corvette (6, 7) is low numbers and not cheap. funny spring. 6th gen Mustang is strut, so are the Camaros and Challengers. I'd figure the modern full size trucks are all overbuilt for the job. Anything made by an 'oversea' name even if built here is going to lose customers.
Southern Rods owns and is building FatMan products. Also, Scott's Hot Rods can build you a stub or a complete ch***is. https://scottshotrods.com/ https://www.southernrods.com/?srsltid=AfmBOooUGkYYte2F5b_6XGF_GNCIxi4DYJKLLmJu0IfSRDY***YIPXmu
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