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Saw a guy "restoring" a super rusty (underneath car) EARLY 1979 IM speedster. The front suspension looked like some early American or European coil spring independent front suspension. I am just curious,what arts did they use and how did it handle in comparison to torsion bar front end? The rear looked like Porsche trailing arms with crazy u-jointed axle shafts instead of CV joints to a Porsche transaxle (could have been modern VW Fox with flipped ring gear?)  Who owns /owned one of these and what were your impressions? Just curious...Mahalo!

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Saw a guy "restoring" a super rusty (underneath car) EARLY 1979 IM speedster. The front suspension looked like some early American or European coil spring independent front suspension. I am just curious,what arts did they use and how did it handle in comparison to torsion bar front end? The rear looked like Porsche trailing arms with crazy u-jointed axle shafts instead of CV joints to a Porsche transaxle (could have been modern VW Fox with flipped ring gear?)  Who owns /owned one of these and what were your impressions? Just curious...Mahalo!

Aloha, on my early IM speedster, it is a relatively stock '69 VW suspension front and back - some lowering components, but that's it. The one you saw may have been highly customized by IM or once it left the factory.

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