Custom Chassis Frank Mc Clendon

[racin6mod]

a local racer had a Swartz cantilever back in the early 90's a guy from the quad city area had a very fast set up for those cars he was a Swartz dealer for the il/iowa area.

the modified grt looks like a basic design and would be easy to duplicate with the shock tech as good as it is now this might be a good set up.

[Stede Bonnet]

Does anyone know how to contact him? I would like to get in touch with him and pick his brain about the cantilever cars. How is he to talk to?(nice,bitter, willing to talk racing?????)
Any help would be appreciated.

So did you ever talk to Frank? I was watching a video tonight from 1998 where Billy Moyer driving for GVS won a HAT race at Fayetteville, NC. Post race he thanked Frank McClendon for building the car. They said it was a Frank creation built on Rayburn's jig and they called it, "Frankenstein". I'd heard of this car, but that was the first time I'd seen it run. The setup was a little off, but she'd dig coming off the corner. I learned a lot from Frank too, back when I was a teenager. I did a google search and this thread came up, pretty cool. Long live the canti-lever!

[TheEngineer]

GVS used to buy Chassis from Rayburn that were only tack welded together with no suspension mounts and Frank would complete the chassis on GVS' in-house jig to Franks design specs. They started doing when Freddy Smith was their driver because Freddy and Frank were close friends. I spent a lot of hours in that shop with Frank, watching and learning from him.

[Stede Bonnet]

Goes In Deeper, Comes Out Harder! - Custom Chassis, Columbus GA.

GVS used to buy Chassis from Rayburn that were only tack welded together with no suspension mounts and Frank would complete the chassis on GVS' in-house jig to Franks design specs. They started doing when Freddy Smith was their driver because Freddy and Frank were close friends. I spent a lot of hours in that shop with Frank, watching and learning from him.

GVS had a chassis they marketed in late 80's early 90's called, "G-Force" I believe. They had it on display at Meridian, MS one night for the Magnolia 100 I think it was. It was a nice leaf car. Frank is a genius.