[Amc-list] 58-63 American bodies (was "breaks")

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But crawl;in under the car, boy there's not a lot of chassis
stiffness visible, it's a tin cookie sheet with a couple of
side connectors, and a lot of air in big fluffy fenders. 
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The side connectors are more or less frame rails that run bumper to bumper though! The floor holds the rails together, but there are crossmembers and reinforcements in the floor (which is one big crossmember). Then you have the side and roof structures. Doesn't look like much, but the body is built like a truss, and is one of the stiffest unit bodies ever made. It's much stiffer than the 63 Classic body. The older Classic is too, just more expensive to build than the newer ones, and it needed a styling overhaul that meant changing the unit body anyway. 

--
Frank Swygert
Publisher, "American Motors Cars" 
Magazine (AMC)
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