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Old 04-13-2012, 01:17 PM   #9 (permalink)
some_other_dave
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OK, then park it somewhere and walk a long ways off and take a telephoto picture of it from directly in front. Lay a 12-inch ruler across the windshield or somewhere else it is visible in the picture without getting foreshortened.

Then you can use that 12-inch length in Photoshop (or Paint or the GIMP or whatever) to create a grid so you can estimate the frontal area.

Or find some line-drawn blueprints on the web and measure them.

-soD
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