Bennett chassis on Bennett jig

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Jeff, Awsome!

I lived 20+ miles from Paul's shop, and he changed out a straight axle to IRS for me on an old "Advanced Chassis" Cobra, 12-15 years ago. I was really impressed with his work.

I don't remember seeing any round-tube chassis in his shop back then, but my memory ain't what she used to be.

Less that 20.....that's interesting, wonder where the other less than 16 are?

Old photos, great! How bout some photos of your car now?

Your and Razorwire's are 427s, correct?

This "package" came with a 289 body already glassed onto one of these round-tube frames. (after a few quick measurements is seems to be same chassis)

One really cool thing that came with the "Package" is the back half of a mold, that is 6"+/- wider than the 427s....I'm not sure what the story is there.

[lakester]

Hi Guys...

I was once a customer of Paul's (long, unhappy story), so I have some reference photos I took long ago of things in various stages of completion.

One set of photos is of a near-completed customer car. I took these (I think) for project planning purposes. For all I know..., it could belong to one of the guys posting in this thread.

Another set is of my frame in an early stage of construction.

I'd be happy to post any/all if anyone would find it of value.

P.S.: Please, don't anyone worry about me being a "ghost" from the past of any of these cars. It's all history to me now.

P.S.S.: Once I've had time to get my poop together, I'll be posting in the Arntz/Butler forum regarding my interest in unloading an earlier Bennett car (Arntz-type). It was sorta my "consolation-car" after Paul failed to deliver on the new frame build.

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lakester,

I'd be happy to post any/all if anyone would find it of value.
I WOULD!

Please do, unfortunately all my Paul Bennett photos, are "stuck" in an OLD desktop computer, I think I found someone who can get them out, and then I'll just toss the old computer.

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lakester,

I'd be happy to post any/all if anyone would find it of value.
I WOULD!

Please do, unfortunately all my Paul Bennett photos, are "stuck" in an OLD desktop computer, I think I found someone who can get them out, and then I'll just toss the old computer.

Paul was a nice guy, excellent engineer, fantastic car builder, unfortunately, he seemed to take on too much work at a time, I too, considered that he took way too long to complete the work we agreed on. I pulled my car before he finished, but the work he had done to that point was excellent.

[lakester]

Will upload in groups of 5.

First groups will be of a completed car on a lift. Latter groups I'll post some of my frame, though that will probably not be of much interest...

[lakester]

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The first pic in the group is the last pick of the finished car.

All remaining pics of my frame in early stages of completion. I thought I had some photos from somewhat later in the process, but can't find 'em.

[lakester]

misc EARLY fabrication photos...