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Old 06-25-2009, 11:15 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Blackfly - '98 Metro
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A useful template is this image:

Align the highest point of your roof to the highest point of the half teardrop, and you have a decent approximation of what you can get away with in terms of initial curve & the curve much further out:



(Ironically, the EV1 is farthest from fitting the template, yet it's the most slippery production car built, at 0.195.)
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