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Thats a parabolic spring, they have a bad habit of breaking

Originally Posted by Oldmanb

Wow!!! Scary, Don, that looks like a single trailer spring, Brian

Originally Posted by roadster32

Thats a parabolic spring, they have a bad habit of breaking

I think the spring is the least of that cars problems! Well, actually, the forces caused by that axle wanting to right itself might put some very strange twists on the springs.

The sad part is that some yokel built this car for the sole purpose of unloading it onto some unsuspecting and inexperienced hopeful rodder who will actually try shoving a big block in it and driving it. To me it verges on criminal..............no different from those "restoration shops" that tape over rust holes in frames and undercoat them so no one will notice.

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

I think the spring is the least of that cars problems! Well, actually, the forces caused by that axle wanting to right itself might put some very strange twists on the springs.

The sad part is that some yokel built this car for the sole purpose of unloading it onto some unsuspecting and inexperienced hopeful rodder who will actually try shoving a big block in it and driving it. To me it verges on criminal..............no different from those "restoration shops" that tape over rust holes in frames and undercoat them so no one will notice.

Don

You can see now why we have our annual MOT test

We have badly built cars here too Don, I guess there is more in the U.S. because of the population size.