Paul Newman Chassis????

rtj

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Anyone have any more insight on the c3 Paul Newman Chassis? It is shown in first pic below. I did get better pics of the c1 P. N. chassis. Pics 2 and 3. I know they discontinued production.

Saw it in this book at Barnes and Noble the other day.

https://books.google.com/books?id=j...nepage&q=paul newman corvette chassis&f=false

Chris Petris, "C3 Corvette, How to build and modify"

There seems to be some connection to sriii and street shop.
 
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No, pictures 2 and 3 are C1 frames.


Apparently Paul Newman had a corvette chassis business. I think the first picture shows bracing under the engine/trans area on a c3 frame. I've never seen anything like that and was hoping to get more views of the final version.
 
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I thing the Paul Newman that did those frame mods is not Paul Newman the actor/racer. I sort of recall a C4 suspension kit for C3's about 10 years ago.
 
Possiblely not the actor, they went out of business. I was curious regarding all that reinforcement under the engine/trans. If anyone has more photos I'd be interested.

This might be one of the production units, much less bracing.

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That extra reinforcement is probably no value if the car has a cage.
 
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Would like to build a full tube chassis someday, but not right now. Just looking for ideas. I think this was in corvette fever.

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