welder (Offline)
#34
9/2/15 11:23 PM
The chassis looks an awful lot like a 1981 Stanton I once had and ran in early 1990's, but someone cut off the cage on what you have there. The resemblance to a Stanton is diagonal 1" tubes next to engine, X in front top rails, bolt in piece of LR bottom frame rail for rear end removal.
Danny Williams, Jr.
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1121 (Offline)
#36
9/17/15 1:11 AM
The tail is definately a Nance tail. But I'm pretty sure the rest of the car is not. I have 10 Nance chassis ranging from 1968 up to 1989. None of them are even close to this. But I will admit the car has been cut up quite a bit so it's hard to tell. I actually think it looks more like a mid 80's Shores car then anything. But I have often joked that Llyod Shores never built two cars alike. My first car was supposed to be a 1979 Shores. My Dad had a 79 Shores at the time. Later on, my friend Chad Delagrange had a 79 Shores. If you set all three of them side by side, you would swear they were all different brands.
But the steering mount, the shock mounts and the bar behind the seat all look like a Shores. Also, the torsion stops were a style that Shores used (along with other builders). The cut out for the rear end was very common among several builders. But the quality of work is not near the quality that Shores would do (or Nance). I almost wonder if some one built the car using two different chassis so to make it long enough for a transmission.
Also, in discussing how old the car is, this isn't conclusive, but in the early to mid 80's most chassis builders went from 5/8" bolts that held the radius rods on to 1/2" bolts. Something to check.
Tom Paterson
Racer1n (Offline)
#37
9/17/15 10:48 PM
I know it's certainly not a Nance.
racer5c (Offline)
#40
9/18/15 6:05 PM
Charles, thanks, it doesn't matter who I am I'm just a guy that likes old race cars like a lot of other people, it's just I've had a few people ask about cars, then want to argue about what it is, I guess they want to believe they have a historic car a car worth a lot of money who knows, like you said I hope he has fun with it however it turns out