1960 Biscayne IRS LS9 at Roadster Shop

[RS-Chris]

Thought I'd start a standalone thread for this chassis project - some may have seen it in our projects thread.
With the huge popularity of these big body '60's cars, it would seem a natural evolution is to go from just making them look cool, to making them seriously move...this one definitely falls in the latter category.

The car arrived as a pretty stock looking Biscayne in fairly nice shape:


DSC_0131 by Roadster Shop, on Flickr

DSC_0133 by Roadster Shop, on Flickr

DSC_0109 by Roadster Shop, on Flickr

DSC_0115 by Roadster Shop, on Flickr

DSC_0119 by Roadster Shop, on Flickr

DSC_0155 by Roadster Shop, on Flickr

First step was to liberate the body from the old X frame...


DSC_0006 by Roadster Shop, on Flickr

DSC_0062 by Roadster Shop, on Flickr

DSC_0064 by Roadster Shop, on Flickr

DSC_0066 by Roadster Shop, on Flickr