So....anyone know how difficult it would be to retrofit a nice cigar shaped body like a Merlyn 11A onto a Zink MK10 chassis?
I'm having a hard time finding body-off pictures of both chassis to compare them.
So....anyone know how difficult it would be to retrofit a nice cigar shaped body like a Merlyn 11A onto a Zink MK10 chassis?
I'm having a hard time finding body-off pictures of both chassis to compare them.
why! why? why! why? why! why?
that Zink was sorta a break through AMERICAN design not some clone cigar car (did someone say Autodynamics D 9?)
more of them around North America than a Merlyn Mk 11 i bet
please consider rebody-ing your racer to its original configuration
please
if you feel like trying a body for fit, David at Britain West has one.
brian
I have a Zink Z-10 and I say "go for it!". IMO Ed Zink ran out of inspiration when it cam to the bodywork. It looks to me like he folded some flat panels of cardboard over the chassis and laid up fiberglass over it...
Here is what I dream about my Zink looking like...
Stan Clayton
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Stan, i dunno...i ran those cigar looking fords: Alexis, Lola, Crossle, Hawke and i always lusted for a chisel nose and side radiators because i knew they made the car faster LOL
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Stan Clayton
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So ugly ya gotta love 'em!
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Yes, it is the Gurney Westlake Eagle F1 car. Drop-dead sexy, don't you think?
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Dan Gurney designed and built some Formula Fords, but unfortunately his design sense abandoned him in favor of a slab-sided Zink look-alike...
Last edited by Stan Clayton; 09.18.13 at 7:54 AM.
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It had a similar nose to the Eagle T1G. I think it was the McNamara.
Stan- The picture you posted above I think is of a LeGrand. The Eagle FF was a roundish long wheel-based design with inboard front suspension. Kind of like a piece of PVC pipe with wheels.
In reference to the original question- Having owned a Merlyn Mk11, I would think that the Zink's frame would be a lot wider than the Merlyn's. In addition, the nose and cockpit surround on the Merlyn was one piece, and that would have to clear the inboard front suspension of the Z10. I would also think that the length of the Zink's frame from the front of the car to the roll bar is longer. I guess with enough effort you can make anything fit anything, but it might look like a person wearing a shirt two sizes too small.
Last edited by Rene Gimenez; 10.02.09 at 11:09 PM. Reason: Referenced picture posted by Stan Clayton
that white ford (ADF wannabe) is a LeGrand, although they did build cigar cars too!
additionally, that #31 Eagle is an Indy racer featuring a DOHC Ford
Last edited by provamo; 10.03.09 at 11:13 AM.
Yeah, the FF is a LeGrand. Sorry about that! Does anyone have a photo of a Gurney FF?
Stan Clayton
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The Eagle pictured is a Champ Car. Ford DOHC powered by the look of things.
GaryJ
D'oh! My bad again...
Here's photo of a real Gurney Formula Ford...yeah, in my dreams!
Stan Clayton
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This car was Bill Kincaid's in SF Region, driven by James Hakewill at the time..
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Stan thanks for posting that Eagle flying at the ring
I always felt the Z-10 looked like a McLaren M23 without wings.
Stan, I tried to make mine look like the Eagle. Is it close?
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That is one fine looking Z-10, Mike!
Stan Clayton
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for the compliment, Stan.
I hate to give it up, but my doctor refuses to sign any more medicals and the wife says it's time. So it and everything else (RV, trailer, parts,tools) are up for sale elsewhere in the forum.
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