How to Build Keith Tanaka's California Sidewinder
By Dale Flanagan
as published in Car Model magazine - November 1968
Despite the November 1968 publish date, the design of this chassis is fairly primitive and probably dates to around May or June 1968. The motor box and main rails are built up as separate subsections joined by a single long straight solder joint along the forward edge of the motor box.
This type of architecture is typical of very early anglewinder chassis that were actually converted inlines. In a rush to have a car to run, builders would cut the back ends cut off their inline chassis and then tack on a separate anglewinder motorbox.
Braces in the form of rod or plate should be added right at the point where the motor box and main rails are joined. Without those braces, this chassis stands a good chance of folding up like a newspaper in a hard crash.
