Re: [Amc-list] Re; '63 American Suspension together.

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

 <johnelle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I dunno, some times it is fun to second
> guess the design concept after 50 some odd years but you really have to
> see Sherman and the time machine to place yourself back in the day to try
> to figure out what drove the decisions of the time. Probably what they
> had worked under the conditions used and did not cost justify a change at
> the time. I fellow I know restored a 1949 Nash awhile back. Something he
> drove when they were new. His first comment after he had it out on the
> road and adjusted correctly was "I had forgotten just how lousy these
> things really handled when they were new!"

Well there you go. I agree with you on design for conditions. I assume 
people did more maintenance then, and skinny hard bias ply tires, lower 
highways speeds (is that true?), expectations, etc etc, and it was probably 
fine then. But times does march on.


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