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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
Looking forward to the details, Phil. I didn't even know they slippified an original Airflow.
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Yeah Darin,this is the first documented account of an aero-modded vehicle I've stumbled across.
The paper runs to 7-pages.What I had hoped for the most,an accurate scale representation of the car,is not included.
I'll spend a little time going over the numbers.It's all in aerospace terminology,with square feet of flat-plate equivalency rather than frontal area Cd.
I have a technical drawing of the car in elevation,some orthogonal photos,and some renderings I questimated from published data.
The data looks pretty good.They used a number of different ways to generate the values and covered correlation factors between wind tunnel results and full-scale tests,dynamometer tests,and top speed,etc..
Perhaps Saturday Night Live can get Tom Hanks to do a new character,'Mr. Long-term Memory Loss',playing a Chrysler CEO.