Re: 1955 Clipper Customs w/o TL

Posted by 55PackardGuy On 2010/1/17 3:52:05

I would agree that the car air spring suspensions have probably suffered from being underbuilt. There are plenty of heavy-duty hauling trucks out there with airbags, and they don't seem prone to failure--it would be an awful risk to use them if they were, but the manufacturers don't seem too worried if a country-clubber has to drag his sorry saggy-assed land yacht Lincoln to the course. Odd, though. They make a lot of money on those big cars.

I reckon it's just one of those components that requires a certain scale and heft to work, and it just won't keep its integrity when downsized and still subjected to a lot of punishment.