Saturday, April 14, 2012

Four Wheels Are Overrated

torsion-bars

Chrysler used torsion bars for the front suspensions in all of their cars from the late 50’s until they started building front-wheel drive cars. 

I remember seeing a film – maybe on TV or maybe at the movies – showing a 1960 or 61 Plymouth driving around with a missing front wheel, something that was theoretically possible by misadjusting the torsion bars. 

I could not find the film on line, or even any reference to it, but I did find this:

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