Tube Chassis for 68

What kind of racing? Drag, Road Race? and what class?

Making a tube-frame race car "street legal" would take far too much time and effort IMHO. Also, if you are going to go there might as well have fiberglass body and lexan windows since attaching the steel outer shell will be a B*tch.

If you're gonna do that then why not a fastback? Have you seen this site?


http://www.usbody.com/67-68 Mustang.htm

Edbert said:

Making a tube-frame race car "street legal" would take far too much time and effort IMHO. Also, if you are going to go there might as well have fiberglass body and lexan windows since attaching the steel outer shell will be a B*tch.

If you're gonna do that then why not a fastback? Have you seen this site?


http://www.usbody.com/67-68 Mustang.htm

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Actually, i don't think it would take anymore work to attach the steel body vs the glass one. It was a real pain when i built my trans am. Trying to find a good place to attach a brace, then fiberglass it in. On a steel body, the braces could be spot welded in place, plus the rocker panels would give a good place to weld the extensions from the chassis frame rails. The firewall could be left in place, so master cylinder, wipers etc could be left in place. Either way, fiberglass or steel, there is going to be a lot of work involved.
I look at mine sometimes after a few brews and think, uhmmm i wonder what it would look like with a tube chassis, roll cage, pinto/mustangII front end, 9", 4-link, yea-yea. Then i come back to reality, my wife would probably kill me.