TrackTV6
Member
In early August of this year we stopped on our way to visit family in Minnesota and picked up a body w/door and a front axle from Speedway Motors. We bolted it to our trailer and dragged it all over Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota before finally ending up with it here at home in Denver CO.
It didn't take me long before I started gathering parts up through Ebay and Craigslist. My plan is to build a track roadster and use some genuine sprint car and midget parts along the way to get that racey look and feel I'm after. Within a few weeks I had a rough mock-up and knew the direction I was heading. I knew I wanted a frame very different than what is usually built for these types of projects. I had a shop here in Denver "press brake" some 1/8" cold rolled steel into a C-channel for me and I was on my way! The rails are actually comprised of 5 pieces in each side. The two front sections and the two rear sections are tapered. I joined the front and middle sections together and then proceeded to "shrink and stretch" them to conform to the shape of the lower body. After the nose arrived, I was able to determine the width of the front of the frame and move on to boxing the rails.