Building a Special Body

[Ian Williams]

In a fast special is well worth making modifications to the rear dampers by adding a fixed and moving arm, with my car I have also shortened the arms and lifted the damper mounting bracket so it is flush with the underside of the chassis. The rear extensions were altered boxed and braced, I modified a Ruby type bracket to fit into the extensions, cut additional moving arms from 2mm steel which were spot welded to a shortened Ruby arm, the additional fixed plate is copied from a hartford design. The result is to my mind pleasingly authentic in appearance as well as achieving the desired improvements, pictures should explain.