You’ve just signed super-rookie Mario Andretti as your driver for the 1965 season, and you need a chassis. Everybody’s going with space-age monocoques based on the revolutionary Lotus Indy car. The heavy favorites to win the Indy 500 – Jim Clark, A.J. Foyt, Dan Gurney, and Parnelli Jones – all will be driving Lotus-Fords. Meanwhile, in various shops around Southern California, Lotus copies are being built for the likes of Roger Ward, Johnny Rutherford, Gordon Johncock, and Lloyd Ruby. You can even buy the latest monocoque chassis from supplier Ted Halibrand for a bargain basement $10,000.
What do you do? You buck the trend and build an old-fashioned tubeframe chassis. Do you know something they don’t?
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