Early IM suspension??

@JamesBondSilver posted:

Saw a guy "restoring" a super rusty (underneath car) EARLY 1979 IM speedster. The front suspension looked like some early American or European coil spring independent front suspension. I am just curious,what arts did they use and how did it handle in comparison to torsion bar front end? The rear looked like Porsche trailing arms with crazy u-jointed axle shafts instead of CV joints to a Porsche transaxle (could have been modern VW Fox with flipped ring gear?)  Who owns /owned one of these and what were your impressions? Just curious...Mahalo!

Aloha, on my early IM speedster, it is a relatively stock '69 VW suspension front and back - some lowering components, but that's it. The one you saw may have been highly customized by IM or once it left the factory.

Early 911-912 had a transmission with “U-joint” axles before they went to CV joints the first couple years.

we used modified Datsun 240z U-joint axles on our drag cars that ran 4 speed 912 gearboxes . They slide in and out so you do not bottom them out like you could with CV joint axles.

The front end sounds like a Metalcraft chassis to me. Any pan Speedster body could fit on one.

And if it was on one of the Speedster groups on FB, I believe I commented the same over there as well.