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Hope you know you'll be more the welcome to take the toys for a spin if you come by! I've built a few leaf spring cars over the years, each was an improvement over it's predecessor...the '57 will be the combination of what I've learned so far from some of my ideas. I "cheat" a bit on my ladder bars. The 'store bought' units all run solid rod ends where they attach to the rear end housing, this one will have heim joints for the attachment, as well as a Watts linkage with heim joints that is set parallel with the axle housing. Still doing some plotting on shock locations for the rear, even considering dual shocks on the rear and some 'out of the box' shock valving on them. Oh yeah, the front suspension will be a strut type arrangement with rack and pinion steering. I do like my toys to handle well!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Hope you know you'll be more the welcome to take the toys for a spin if you come by! I've built a few leaf spring cars over the years, each was an improvement over it's predecessor...the '57 will be the combination of what I've learned so far from some of my ideas. I do like my toys to handle well!

Thank You Dave! I'm excited about trying out your toy! But even moreso about meeting you! So now you just gotta Get' R Done! and I'll make every effort to meet you.

If I ever build another it'll be a 3 link rear---absolutely no binding thru out full suspension travel--little more complicated during the build and set up, but I feel that the 4 bar builders took the easy road when moving up from the ladder bar era----but at about that same time, Lamb came along with the front strut system----it made so much improvement in the front to help performance that the rear was then over looked for years

Dave--here is a couple of 57 chev at Morris, Il Cruise Nite

Thanks for putting up the pictures, Jerry, both are very neat cars!!! The old gassers were sure kewl looking cars, impractical as all get out with all that stuff hangin' up there in the wind, but nevertheless, way kewl!!!! I'd guess the guy with the black car had a really large bill at the chrome shop!!!