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Media Type: Photographic Prints
Source: Automobile Reference Collection
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Gaylord Cars Ltd., Chicago, Ill.

The robust and extraordinarily stiff Gaylord chassis frame, after three years of development, has proven to be one of the most resistant to torsional and other stresses in the world today – and at the same time it is light and compact.

It is of a semi-backbone design, wherein the front suspension loads are transmitted to the two inboard main tubes, causing the chassis to take the most concentrated strains through its “backbone.”

Attention to shearing and bending have been cared for in such a manner as to free the frame from any undesirable deflection.

Wheel base:  100 3/16”

Tires:  7.10 x 15, tubeless, white wall Firestone “500.” These tires are noted for their extraordinary high strength and low weight.

Wheels:  Aluminum “saber tooth” chromium plated 15” wheels, allowing very good wheel and brake drum ventilation, coupled with light weight and rigidity. Rims are 6” wide contributing to the excellent cornering properties of the Gaylord car.

Body  The body is mounted on the frame in such a way as to eliminate any metal to metal connection through the use of rubber mountings. This, among other things, renders the Gaylord car possibly one of the most quiet and vibrationless automobiles in the world.

Frame material:  Chromium – molybdenum steel tubing.