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Hi, I'm restoring a dragster in New Zealand and I am having trouble identifying the front shock absorbers that were on it. I was told they possibly were off a Truimph car. The dragster was built in 1975, so the shocks must date before that.

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Can anyone help?

Cheers Grant.
 
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Could be anything from a Koni to a Monroe. Coil-overs were made to spec by all the "usual suspects" then.

It ~appears~ to be a Spit/GT-6 arrangement but I can't see details to confirm that.
 
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Hard to tell just what's there, but the setup appears to have an "eye" at both ends for bolt mounting. The typical Herald/Spit front shock only had the "eye" at the bottom; it had a threaded rod and double nuts at the top to fasten it to a plate with three studs that, in turn fastened to the frame mount.

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That's difficult - no maker's marks on them? They look like those from a Lotus, but so would a lot of others, I'm afraid.
 
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