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Old 07-26-2013, 01:38 PM   #7 (permalink)
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This special Road & Track issue is from December 1991. The bottom left thumbnail on the cover is the Colani Corvette.
I've been thinking about this thread lately.

In the video he describes the 1989 Colani Corvette Charisma, as an upside down wing - it's all about down-force........he adds.

Interesting in that this is what the GM engineers were attempting to do with the 63 Stingray, except they did't clean up the belly enough to pull it off - and then decided it didn't work, so it remained an above deck styling exercise.

1957 XP-84 Q Concept - lead to the 1963 Stingray


1989 Colani Corvette - Studios


Luigi Colani Corvette


1957 Q Corvette


http://www.carstyling.ru/en/car/1989.../images/13680/



I've been altering my standard aerodynamic car design which I sketch up over and over again on grid paper to now incorporate more sweep in the tail - creating an inverted wing. It's growing on me, maybe I'll post it later.
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