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FM Former Member
Hello,

I am looking into the speedsters replica world hopefully will buy one down the road soon.. I've owned a cobra slabside replica and actually have a 1977 2500M TVR car. Both of these cars had a common interesting point wich is their frame:the cobra had a beautyfull ladder type frame made of round and square tubings very well joined together and the TVR has a very nice tubular one also.

So the frame/rear and front suspensions are of great interest to me .I have searched a lot on this site's archives to see if there wouldn't be any nice pictures or drawings of some of the speedsters frames and didn't find much. The IM is my main interest but some other mfrgs. also have tubings frames...anybody has pictures to share?

It would be interesting to see,through pictures,the evolution of intermeccanica's frame through the years..

Also even the basic/older pan type fundations intricate me..if anybody has pictures or references as where I could find some...

I guess it goes to my childhood to know "how it is made" thing!

Thanks,Ron.
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FM Former Member
Hello,

I am looking into the speedsters replica world hopefully will buy one down the road soon.. I've owned a cobra slabside replica and actually have a 1977 2500M TVR car. Both of these cars had a common interesting point wich is their frame:the cobra had a beautyfull ladder type frame made of round and square tubings very well joined together and the TVR has a very nice tubular one also.

So the frame/rear and front suspensions are of great interest to me .I have searched a lot on this site's archives to see if there wouldn't be any nice pictures or drawings of some of the speedsters frames and didn't find much. The IM is my main interest but some other mfrgs. also have tubings frames...anybody has pictures to share?

It would be interesting to see,through pictures,the evolution of intermeccanica's frame through the years..

Also even the basic/older pan type fundations intricate me..if anybody has pictures or references as where I could find some...

I guess it goes to my childhood to know "how it is made" thing!

Thanks,Ron.
FM Former Member
Ronald. I'll put together a series of Pics that detail the frame build at Intermeccanica and also show the bonding of the body to the frame. I'll send it e-mail if you can handle a mail with several JPGs of 640x400 size attached. Send me a note if this info is something you want sent.
FM Former Member

The frame I see here is basically a VW pan type with a reinforcement around it...now this is not said in a critical manner..mostlikely the VW pan had been a very efficient piece of equipement. Saying this could very well disclose my ignorance in this domain..I am a newcomer to the speedster replica and have not seen much yet!

But when I read about so and such speedster manufacturer's "tubular frames" was getting me under the impression of a completely different arrays of tubings rounded and shaped giving form to a tubular frame similar to the one as the spyder car had.

A question :were the original cars (356) built around a platform similar to the Pan type frame or did they have a rather "space ,tri-dimensional type arrangement?

Nolan: I still have the TVR (thinking of replacing it with a speedster).TVR is very strong still in england,if i am right they got first at Le Mand few years back...very expensive cars now . But to my taste their nicer cars were the pre 1980 ones ..times when cromed bumpers were still around.

Ronald.
FM Former Member
Ronald; original 356's were unibody type assemblies not a separate pan and body as on a Bug. They look similar from underneath but they're not the same. From a handling amd structural point of view you're probably better off with a frame based instead of a pan based car. Manufacturers such as Beck, Intermeccanicas (on more recent cars) and SAW do the frame type cars.
FM Former Member
Ronald - slab side Cobra? TVR? I am available for adoption! I don't eat much. Just give me directions and I'll be there straight away.
My neighbor had a Griffith (nee TVR) with a Ford V-8 option and rear tires the width of a large pizza box. 2000 pound car, 350 plus horsepower and that was about 25 years ago. Thanks for the memory jog.
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