Grumpy's Toy Camaro's

[RichSchmidt]

There must have been a few 3 link cars built.A while back when Jenkins' 70 was first found I threw a hissy fit because I know of a 2nd gen camaro that is absolutly Richie Zul's old car and I know right where it it right now.The car was a 70 Camaro converted to a 74 then a 79,and had a 3 link rear suspention.After a lot of leg work some calls to Richie Zul himself and more confusion iit was discovered that Zul owned 2 2nd gen camaros,one which he bought from Jenkins and one that was bought from Joe Satmary.As it turns out the car I know of was the car he bought from Satmary.That car like the Jenkins car had a 3 link rear suspention installed very early on just like the Jenkins 70 and the Vega.Most racers didnt like the 3 link and swapped to ladder bars early on.

[jannes_z-28]

3-link rear suspension was the hot thing in the seventies for Pro Stockers, when properly dialed in it was superior to other setups. But the problem was just to tune the upper third rod. It needed sideway adjustments to make the car hookup straight and in level. If the rod was off just a fraction the car launched with a twist and put more load on one of the rear tires.

I saw cars were they had three or four inches of sideway adjustments to play with.

All theses adjustments possibilities made it difficult and they soon went to fourlink systems instead that when dialed in did just needed some adjustments in the shocks.

You can see on pictures of that time if a car has threelink, the way they launch is the telltale.


Jan