Re: What about the 25K 105mph V8 Patrician?

Posted by Mr.Pushbutton  On 2011/4/5 23:20:25

I knew Bill Allison, and have the video copy of his 1954-1960 home movies of his suspension experiments that you speak of.
Bill tried everything, once--at least. After Packard died he adapted some Nash cars to a torsion bar system that was more advanced than Packard's, he did this for Ford. Why a Nash body? because it was a unit body, before Ford had one going, but they knew that they were going to be making unit bodies soon. There is a drawing in the AQ/Kimes book showing the bars going criss-cross like you describe. Bill was doing other suspensions using leaf springs, but still the interconnecting principal. I recall the brass models he built, based on the package size of Chrysler K cars, in the early 80s.
He was an engineer's engineer, and a soft-spoken gentleman.