If your device has a hollow interior with fragile components, open the chassis and place packing material inside.
The officially approved car now in use has an open-wheel, low-slung, open-cockpit chassis with a rear-mounted high-performance engine having a displacement of 183.6 cubic inches (3.0 litres).
The car could be styled as an open-air chassis or a coupe.
Kingsley Coach Inc. of Middleburg, Pa., mounts an R.V. body to a stretched truck chassis and opens the back of the cab to the living quarters.
An open-wheel race car — so called because its wheels extend, exposed, from the chassis — is relatively light (half the weight of a stock car) and very fast, capable of speeds upward of two hundred and thirty miles per hour.
Coach Co., founded in 1885, relied upon horsepower until 1907, when it introduced the 1st gasoline-powered omnibus ever seen in this country - an open double-decker, the engine & chassis made by the Dion-Bouton, of France, & the body by a firm in Phila.
But some drive souped-up models that offer custom-built engines, wider chassis, streamlined aerodynamics and open grills and even rear-view cameras to aid speed and agility.
IndyCar considered opening the series up to multiple chassis, but Randy Bernard, the group's chief executive officer, said that would have driven up the cost.
"The hatchback architecture costs a lot of stiffness," Robinson says, referring to how a big back window that opens essentially weakens the Z's chassis.
But now, as executive chairman of Cooper-Standard Automotive, a $2.5 billion (revenue) supplier of chassis systems, he's opening up about it in the hope that his experience will convince other companies to donate the $1 million needed for a medical clinic for homeless children in Detroit.
