Can you help identify these shock absorbers?

[noel03]

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.

Can anyone help?

Cheers Grant.

 

[tr6_easyrider]

Might check with the folks on the Spitfire forum.
https://www.rimmerbros.co.uk/Item--i-GRID005743
Looks like a fun toy.

 

[DrEntropy]

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.

 

[Andrew Mace]

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.

Spitfire front suspension

 

[Roger]

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.

 

[TRED]

Can't help with the shock question, but would like to say, awesome car. I have thought many times about driving a Altered Topolino sideways like the late Wild Willie Borsch. Good luck with the project.

 

[noel03]

A modified Hillman Imp front shock maybe?