Factory Five Racing 1933 Ford - The Cobra In Henry's Clothes
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The supplied aluminum trunk panels aren't in place, and without them we get a good idea of the car's structure and packaging. The fuel tank sits immediately behind the passenger compartment to maintain the car's neutral front-to-rear weight bias. Though struts support the rearmost body edge, the chassis ends at the trailing edge of the tires. Rather than arch over the axle as it does here, the production exhaust system pokes out of the quarter panel just behind the doors on the production model. Since the Panhard bar height establishes the rear suspension's roll center, Factory Five designers positioned it very low-so low, in fact, that it's not visible on account of the rear apron. What is visible, though, is the upper member of the three-link suspension and the Koni mono-tube coilovers. View Related Article
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