[Alpines] [Tigers] Speaking of Panhard Bars...

[drmayf]

What's baseball?  And I certainly agreee with you on the steering part 
of an Alpine!  While it looks odd, it at least works! Heck, maybe we can 
get a challenge race going, eh? Something like the gumball ralley but 
only for Alpines and Tigers? Say coast to coast on just back roads? Hey 
that might be fun!

and thanks for the tongue in cheek comments, it's fun

mayf
Marc James Small wrote:

> At 04:09 PM 7/5/2008, drmayf wrote:
> >Are there any other cars that use leaf springs like our cars and a
> >panhard bar? The use of a panhard bar in our case is just counter
> >intuitive to me. The leaf springs keep the rear end located and that
> >would seem to make the panhard bar redundant. Yeah, I know about wheel
> >hop, but a panhard bar or any other kind of lateral location linkage is
> >to keep the rear centered.  If I put coil overs on the rear of my car,
> >then, yeah, a locating bar would be needed, as well as some trailing
> >linkage for fore and aft movement.
> >
> >So why did they install it? Did the Alpine have one? .
>
>
> The much more civilized Alpine did not need a Panhard Rod to produce 
> manueverability which, all else being equal, routinely leaves Tigers 
> in the dust on any sort of decent back road.
>
> The original Tigers were produced by mushing up Alpine bodies and the 
> only suspension modifications were those necessary to fit that 
> ungainly Ford mill into a decently sized engine compartment.  Hence, 
> the rear suspension remained the same -- a torn rotator cuff (damn!  
> there goes my career pitching for the Atlanta Braves, and I really WAS 
> looking forward to a perfect World Series game against the detestable 
> Yankees or the even more detestable Boston Dead Sox) makes it hard for 
> me to dig out my parts manuals.  I suspect without checking these that 
> the Alpine IIIa/IV rear springs were identical to those on the Alpine 
> 260 if not for those on the Alpine V and Tiger II.
>
> If you upgrade your rear springs to something more in line with that 
> unGodly amount of power that barbaric engine provides, a Panhard Rod 
> becomes unnecessary.
>
> (The above is all written in good fun save for the cmments about the 
> Yankees and the Boston Morons, and, yes, I grin as I write these 
> words.  You guys all live on the Left Coast and therefore have no 
> knowledge of REAL baseball.)
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall at aya.yale.edu
> Cha robh b`s fir gun ghr`s fir!