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Backbone tube chassis is a type of automobile construction chassis that is similar to the body-on-frame design. Instead of a two-dimensional ladder-type structure , it consists of a strong tubular backbone (usually rectangular in cross section ) that connects the front and rear suspension attachment areas.
The Logghe Stamping Company (commonly known as Logghe Brothers) is a dragster and funny car fabricator based in Detroit, Michigan. [1]Logghe Brothers, operated by brothers Ron and Gene, [2] was the first company to produce funny car chassis in series, beginning in 1966, when they built Don Nicholson's Eliminator I, with a reproduction Mercury Comet body provided by Fiberglass Trends. [3]
The platform chassis, and the large number of available VW Beetles, encouraged the use of the Beetle platform as a donor car for building kit cars. The most iconic of these was the dune buggy : a stripped-down Beetle chassis, with the simplest fibreglass 'bathtub' body on top of this.
The Avenger GT's styling recalls the Ford GT40 — the Mk.I and Mk.III GT40s in particular — but is not an exact copy of the racing car. It was a less expensive alternative to the Fiberfab Valkyrie, which looked like an Avenger GT with a short rear deck and had a custom chassis with room for a mid-mounted V8 engine. [2]
Richard Hartman, a crew chief for NHRA Funny Car driver Tim Wilkerson, rebodied a former Wilkerson Funny Car chassis into an Altered, reaching 4.92 seconds in the quarter-mile with a terminal velocity of 304.53 MPH. [22] It is the fastest quarter-mile car currently in the NHRA, as Top Fuel and Funny Car both run only to 1,000 feet.
Firewall in an automobile illustrated by a red line Cutaway drawing of the 1934 Citroen Traction Avant, showing the firewall Firewall of an aircraft's engine nacelle. In automotive engineering, the firewall (American English) or bulkhead (British English) is the part of the automobile body (unibody or body-on-frame) that separates the engine compartment from the passenger compartment (driver ...
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The Peel Viking Sport was a Mini-based car made by the Peel Engineering Company on the Isle of Man between 1966 and 1970. The 2+2 debuted at the 1966 Racing Car Show. Using moulded replicas of cut-down Mini doors, the glassfibre, monocoque, fastback styled bodyshell sold for 230 GBP [1] and accepted standard Mini front and rear subframes on a square tube chassis.