Hi:

I recently inherited several cars from my father who, sadly, passed away last fall (fellas, get your ticker checked out). He was only 57 and just beginning to enjoy his retirement after 36 years as a pipefitter. I'm intending on finishing these projects that he started, specifically a 29 ford roadster, which is the subject of my post.

The front suspension was set up with a four-bar and a dropped tube axle suspended by Alden coil-overs. To this, he added a unique panhard arrangement - It consists of a bearing, approximately 1 1/2" in diameter mounted in the center of the backside of the axle. This bearing, in turn, rides inside of peice of vertically positioned channel mounted to the frame.

Has anyone ever seen an arrangement like this? Should I keep it or switch to a more conventional pahard bar? The channel doesn't hang down too far so as to cause any ground clearance issues and it appears to effectively control lateral sway (the car is unfinished and untested).

I hope I explained this well enough to visualize it. If anyone has any pictures of this type of setup, or even of a coil-over, tube axle four-bar setup in general, please post.

Thanks,

DirtyT