The red white and green car is indeed mortimer II. it was never a race car (there is no roll cage) I have no reason to believe shankle or ward and dean had anything to do with it. I believe the head had "autosprint" carved into it somewhere, but I no longer have that motor. (It seems to have some mysterious problem w/ headgaskets that remains unresolved.)
What made mortimer remarkable was it's brake system, 4 piston calipers all around, oversize roters, and adjustable bias box.
And ferrari F-40 seats.
I needed a daily (reliable) driver and made some changes.
there were 4 yellow springs which were so short on the front that they fell out, loose, when the bolts for the spring pan were removed. And oddly enough didn't have adjustable upper arms.
Someone had gone to some effort to make solid bushes for the trailing arms....
The steering arm was misaligned to the box, meaning that it turned farther to the right than left.
I had a set of stock front springs, cut one coil off each, replace the red koni's w/ stock shocks added a second front sway bar, adjustable upper arms.
Swapped out the solid bushing trailing arms for standard alfa rubber ones, cut 1 1/2 coil off the stock springs for the back and installed stock shocks on that end also.
It now sports my well proven motor w/Jon Norman head, megacycle cams, 10.4 borgo's, HP spica pump, alum flywheel, GTA headers etc. etc. coupled to a GTA gearbox.
that and a bunch of other stuff. (I yanked the oil cooler) the ferrari seats are too narrow, i'll probably put in some stock seats or maybe some spider seats for a lower sitting position. ( I like the headroom the lowslung ferrari seats give)
It WOULD be in daily use if I didn't mind frequent contacts w/ the local constabulary.
More info here if anyone is interested
http://www.its-a-grind.com/normsstuf.../mortimer.html
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