One night at Lincoln in "74"

Straight Shooter · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2012 8:23 am

speedracer5 wrote:

I had the privilege to work on a WELD MODFIED what a car that car was awsome we won a lot of races with that car and a track championship at big Diamond and penn National what a piece of machinery ! :redpepper:

It was basically a big 4 bar sprint car. Fast out of the box & helped propel Jimmy Horton to his fabulous career in the Statewide #3.

c4 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:01 pm

yeah....well....that and he married the owners daughter couldnt have hurt either :laughing7:

62xracer · **Joined:** Fri Sep 26, 2008 4:18 pm **Posts:** 195

Weld's modifieds were actually coil-overs, looked like torsion until you looked close. Torsion arms with short bars transfered to inboard mounted coil-overs, front and rear. It behaved like a 4 bar the way it was laid out. He came up with it because at the time, Reading didn't allow torsion bars. Guy was a genius.

c4 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2012 6:49 pm

62xracer wrote:

Weld's modifieds were actually coil-overs, looked like torsion until you looked close. Torsion arms with short bars transfered to inboard mounted coil-overs, front and rear. It behaved like a 4 bar the way it was laid out. He came up with it because at the time, Reading didn't allow torsion bars. Guy was a genius.

there were a few versions......this is the straight up front coil car
the version that you described had inbord mounted coilovers on a bellcrank type arrangement, one off each side of the axle and hooking to the shocks and also a front "sway bar" similar to the "king" modifieds that was over the front axle and tied to the shock pickup points below the axle tube.
and yes, he was a genius.

supertc88 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:45 pm

NICE picture! :thumbright:

paoldtimer · **Posted:** Wed Sep 12, 2012 4:09 pm

Thanks for the shots, Lee! Brings back some great memories! Still miss Stevie Howard, Jimmy too.

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