Bob Fox's DSR Chassis

[HayesCages]

We're moving and I need to move a bunch of stuff along to a new storage place. Yours?

I'd post in the "for sale" area but the price for all of this is just what I paid many years ago: Nothing. Free.

All located in N. Idaho. We're about 40 miles north of Coeur D'Alene, ID.

Here's a description of the chassis we have from the former owner, a close friend of Bob's.

The chassis Lawrence has is the first chassis Bob Fox built in 1982 for a DSR car he designed in the very late 1970's and early 1980's. Bob's car design eventually became the production AMAC DSR cars built by Art McQueary who owns AMAC Fabrication. Art is still in business, but has relocated to Grants Pass, Oregon. He will still produce any specialty parts for the cars that people need, like the AMAC-designed final drive. Everything necessary to complete the car is still readily available. This chassis has been used and abused - it probably has 200 races on it - and it would need a significant amount of TLC to resurrect it.

The car was designed for the Kawasaki Ninja four cylinder water cooled engine/transmission. The original 900, the later 1000R, and the final ZX-10 engines will all fit with no changes. As I have mentioned to Lawrence, I have enough Ninja engine parts to build at least one of any of the three versions of the engine. I would be happy to donate these parts to the project if someone really wants to complete the car. I even have a spare dry sump oil tank which I would be willing to donate. I don't have any spare dry sump oil pans, but I have at least one that could be used as a pattern to convert any original wet sump pan.

The body molds still exist for the original, and possibly even the newer, less efficient, body. I believe Bob Fox has them, but I'm not positive about that. He at least knows where they are.

The front and rear uprights were originally designed by Dale Tholen, from Southern California, in the late 1970's. Dale died several years ago but updated and improved versions of these uprights are still manufactured and sold by Doug Learned in the Salinas, California, area who owns the Fast Forward business. All the rest of the suspension consists of locally fabricated steel or aluminum tubing. The steering rack is Porsche 914 origin. Brake parts consist of Fiat rotors, AP Lockheed Aluminum two piston fixed calipers, and Lockheed or Tilton master cylinders. If they will fit properly, the Tilton master cylinders are significantly cheaper.

We also have a complete 900 Ninja engine with dry sump pan, 2 sets of carbs, airbox, oil tank, oil cooler, headers, chain drive diff, misc aluminum panels and some brake lines.

This isn't a bolt-together project. It would take a lot of fab work and $$$$.

PM me for info if you're interested. I have about a month from today to offload this before it all goes to the scrap yard.

I've tried to rotate the frame picture 4 times, lol.

Thanks for looking, Lawrence

[10rmotor]

I gotta know how the heck this chassis made it all the way to idaho. I wasn't aware that there was another two seater chassis in existence as I was thinking they were all out here. Some lineage out of the logbook (if you have it) would be greatly appreciated!

[HayesCages]

My friend, Ron Hoff, is a good friend of Bob's. (Ron worked for Huffaker Engineering at the time) Bob gave this old chassis and many parts to Ron years ago. At some point Ron moved from the Bay Area to Spokane, WA.
Skip ahead to 2007 or so and Ron gave all of it to me when we lived there. We moved to N. Idaho in 2012.

There is no log book that I am aware of but the roll bar stamp is 33-1543.

Ron also has an Astek DSR sitting in his garage, now in Florida. It's very nice.

[10rmotor]

Ah yes Ron Hoff. Great guy I really miss him. I knew of his Astek but didn't know about this other chassis' existence, or even that Ron had it. I would imagine that the next chassis Bob built he just stamped it with the same number as this one so he could continue to use the logbook and thus not go through the hassle of getting another one!

The molds for that car are still at Bobs house in California. The uprights are made by Doug at fast forward, but he doesn't keep them on the shelf anymore and if some are needed, the buyer will need to pay for a run of parts, as he doesn't do one offs of these. I can provide most of the suspension pieces for the car if any are missing.

[JohnBosso]

I have both front and rear uprights as I still have the single seat version of Bob' car.

[10rmotor]

So there is a chassis, engine parts, electrics, and parts for a final drive.

To complete it needs: Bodywork, wheels, hubs, uprights, brakes, bearings, axles, suspension links, rod ends, and steering rack. And time. On the low side, at least 8K of bought parts, for anyone interested. I'd hate to see that chassis go away....