Hot Rods THREE SPRINGER , 3 SPRINGER picture thread

All ready for a Saturday night cruise at the track. Cool pic'.

Ron

 

Now this is what I am talking about !! thanks to you all for your contributions...I m lovin' every minute of this thread. I am still gathering parts for my Jalopy with no parts later than 1940. Her is the list to date:

'16 Dodge chassis and tub
'27 Chrysler rad shell
'38 Plym flat 6 (still to hop up) and box
'27 Chrysler tube axle
'40 Dodge pick up juice brakes and diff
'35 Ford wires
'40 Plym wheel
'36 Plym 'all in one' gauge
'40 Dodge truck lights
'40 packard brake lights (gotta run em in Australia)

Cheers

 

We need pictures, even if it's only a pile of parts. Building our HA/GR with a '34 Dodge flathead 6 and trans. Link to build thread in my sig line.

 

Righto then...watch this space

 

Hey BCT,

How os your build progressing ?

 

^^^^ ya.....curious, appreciative minds want to know....

 

Nice job, crazy cool. Gary

 

Three Springer, the other way

Pre war, but updated as was common.

 

Actually, only a two springer. The rear's are only half per side.

Nice car.

 

Thank you

More correctly they are only 1/4 per side (of a fully elliptical spring).

Therefore all the cars pictured are by your definition, two springers utilizing two 1/2 ellipticals per side.

 

When I saw the title of this thread, I thought of the 3 spring Fords that were on the streets when I was growing up in the 50s. At that time the Fords on the streets had the front transverse spring and had a modern rear axle with parallel springs. This gave a distinctive bounce to the cars going down the road. It was always easy to identify a 3 spring Ford by the way it rode and when I put a modern axle under the rear of my 47 Mercury, I had the worlds biggest grin because it rode just right.

 

actually i have been working on a new project.....converting it from 4 wheel drive to 2

 

Thanks for all of this. I brought home a '29 Chevy chassis yesterday and am deciding if it will have 3 or 4 springs. I'm leaning toward 3. 4 looks a bit long in the back. The body is a '26 Chevy roadster. I'm using a '47 Chevy pick up front axle and brakes a built 153 Chevy 4 cyl, Saganaw 4 speed, and a dana 44. 19" Chevy wire wheels. That is unless my '28 Chevy 4 sneaks in. It is tempting but I want something a little more streetable and I've put a lot into the 153.

 

Put the 153 in for now and have some fun- you can always build the 171 later

 

Exactly what I was thinking. I can build it with both engines in mind.

 

here is another sweet one!

 

Another one in the works...

 

Here's mine

 

Stunning!!

 

Now that is a fine example!

 

How about an 8 springer?

 

Pete, what radiator shell did you modify?

 

nice cars guys. great choices of complimenting parts.

 

Good to see this come around again. There are great examples here. Thanks!

 

I wondered how good parallel springs on front would look, nice they are.

 

ditto

 

It was a shell I found in a buddy's junk pile, I think maybe Dodge.
I saw it & thought "hey I can cut this up & make it look just like the one in the Frontenac catalog" :>)

 

Charles

Check out the Louie Meyer 1933 Indy winner. It was a Miller with that type of suspension.
Years ago I had that car in my shop & got to work on it.
It had a really cool deal on the upper spring mount for the front axle.
The spring mounted on a bed that would move for & aft with an adjustor screw, so you could dial in the caster !!!

Pete