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Originally Posted by JackMcCornack
I'm going to take another look at the Bugatti Tank shown earlier (the blue car with the flat sides and lots of louvers).
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About the Jaguar C-Type long-tail:
"Low and rounded at the nose, low and pointed at the tail, it not only looked like an airplane wing (in cross-section) but acted like one. The cars wanted to fly. In fact, their rear ends lifted so much that load on the rear tires was reduced by a good quarter, and the drivers came back to the pits ashen-faced to report evil instability. The older body had shown a tendency to lift a bit, but nothing like this."
Porsche and Ferrari also had similar problems with long pointy tails that were too low.
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Originally Posted by JackMcCornack
PS--Just saw your Metro Streamliner! That is way cool! Do you have a topic on building it? Is it fwd? Tell us more!
(If it doesn't have its own topic yet, it sure deserves one.)
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It does have a thread here.