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Originally Posted by Biturbo
I have been creating some pencil concept drawings of a car similar to the Art Deco roadster documented on this forum. I have also been thinking about Bugatti 57sc Atlantic elements. Love the Delahaye. Too many great designs . Trying to conceptualize a superleggera framework rather than a ladder frame to get the floor lower and increase cabin space of a coupe
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You have been attracted to some classic designs.
"Superleggera" was a revolution in autobody execution, replacing timber-framing inside the bodywork with angle, channel, and small tubing. I have restored a few of the 1930's Touring bodies, Touring being the inventor of that framework.
The ladder chassis frames can be abbreviated by going to heavier front and rear x-members and going "creative" in between those first and last x members. When the modified ladder is done this way, jacking up the vehicle using either front corner will raise it with almost zero twist.
(I have done this - with a Holset-Switzer turbo on a Mopar smallblock, 1974.)
Success and joy,