So I know we're all sick of parallel leafs on the front, so lets see the "wrong" way to do it! Post up some pictures and insight Sent via my typewriter
Fifty years ago I built a '55 Chevy Gasser. I had Ted Brown and Dick Fletcher, Fletcher and Brown Race Cars, install a straight tube axle with Willy's spindles. Transverse spring and radius rods. Used the stock steering box and handled great. Search "White Lightnin" for pictures. After running in B/Gas at the '67 Winter Nationals I sold the car and it vanished. It wasn't uncommon to run a transverse spring in the '60s and in my opinion, based on how the car handled, it wouldn't have worked better with parallel springs.
http://www.vintage-car-magazines.com/store.php?seller=VintageCarMagazines&pd=4345716 Here is a pic of my old mans vette frm back in the day (before he owned it, he bought it 2 years after it was on the cover). Copy and paste the link above. It was running a buggy sprung. V8-60 axle
Marginally...but judging from that camber, I'd say that's raisin' hell with that axle! Love that Stude...and love that pic!
Looks bad I know! I just put an anglefinder on it and it is 1 degree on both spindles....must be the picture....
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