High strength steel chasis

[Sam]

Hi , I restoring an Alfetta GTV.

I recently read that some manufacturers introduced  High strength / High tensile steel on some car chassis  as early as the late 1970's.
Apparently Chrysler (and others) started using it at that time.

I know it's used in Alfa 75s and 90s, but I don't think it was for the earlier cars.

Given that there are safety & legal issues with welding HT/HSS steel, (metal weakening) I'm interested to know if anyone call tell me if it was used on the Alfetta GTVs (1979/80) ?

Can anyone confirm one way or the other?

[Scott Farquharson]

Hi , I restoring an Alfetta GTV.

I recently read that some manufacturers introduced  High strength / High tensile steel on some car chassis  as early as the late 1970's.
Apparently Chrysler (and others) started using it at that time.

I know it's used in Alfa 75s and 90s, but I don't think it was for the earlier cars.

Given that there are safety & legal issues with welding HT/HSS steel, (metal weakening) I'm interested to know if anyone call tell me if it was used on the Alfetta GTVs (1979/80) ?

Can anyone confirm one way or the other?

I would very much doubt that the Alfetta's had this.  Most of these cars were made in Russian steel of dubious quality.  We have welded many of these cars with no issues to date.