Originally Posted by repechage

The titanium version of a Barra.

not sure I buy the tube from sheet- except
for the tapered elements.
the cost to tool up to make ti stays and blades would be significant.

the Ti welding... wonder how they kept the oxygen away?

I got to see the ti-22 CanAm car take shape
Everything, complete chassis, roll bar, suspension elements were all titanium
this was in the late 60's!
Thousands of ti pop rivets and the suspension parts welded up in an inert tank with windows, flood it with argon, looked like a sandblast case with a pressure door.

Bryant, the designer had worked out the early version of ground effects, under the car was a wedge of open space. Lots of downforce when un -disturbed air flowing, and that was part of its demise, dirty air behind another car, modest hill, and car did a backflip.
end of that tub.

not really enough cash to build another
probable cost $250k in material back then