David EilersNovember 22, 2014

Laser Scanning the Bantam BRC-60 Frame

The Austin Bantam Society shared a link to this interesting story about the use of a laser scanner by Direct Dimensions, INC, to scan what they describe as the Bantam BRC frame, but is really a BRC-60 frame according to Bill Spear. I'd read that the frame broke after heavy testing, but I don't see any obvious breaks. I didn't know it had been saved. It definitely has decayed.

http://www.laserdesign.com/project_news/200/

bantam-brc-frame — Bantam BRC original prototype frame

2 Comments

Bill NorrisNovember 22, 2014 at 3:01 PM
That's fascinating. The strips in place of a skid plate under the oil pan do seem to support the testing results. The government put a hole in the oil pan and Bantam improvised a form of a skid plate. Bill
brandonMarch 18, 2015 at 5:15 PM
Bill Those strips look like a transmission/T-case skid plate. If im not mistaken that was on all bantam chassis...correct me if Im wrong. They just seem to be a little too far back to be engine, I assume that's where the transmission rests. Brandon