Originally Posted by
SlowerOne
It was never badged a Schumacher, but...
The
Schumacher C car used that style of front suspension in 1984, the first time it was seen on a 12th car. It was a great car, and won the European Champs in 1985 and 1986 - over 20 years before Corally did the same thing in aluminium. And lets not forget that CEFX did the same thing with the C12 in 2004!
Corallys have always been Corallys, and they sold at their best when driven by one David Spashett, who won them their only two IFMAR WCs. David has retired now, and Corally sales seem to have retired with him! It is also worth pointing out that David was soundly beaten in the 2005 European Champs using that front end, but wiped the floor with everyone at the 2006 Worlds using the same car with an Associated front end - 'nuff said!! HTH
The C Car definitely had that style of front end, I had one! Earlier version than the one in the pic though, stick pack version. Worked pretty well as SlowerOne has described.
Time moves on though, and the dynamic strut front end is definitely a better solution. Time will tell if the double wishbone front end will be better still.
Trev