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Originally Posted by aerohead
Kamm's lowest drag car didn't survive the war.
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There you go again...
Again, I am not sure if you are being deliberately misleading - or that's your genuine belief.
You said:
Kamm's lowest drag car didn't survive the war.
Let me put that a different way:
The car that did in fact survive the war proved to have a very much higher drag coefficient than the pre-war tests showed.
To assume, therefore, that the other pre-war data is correct is a bit simplistic.
I am not sure why you pursue this fable that all significant car aero happened in the 1920s and 1930s.
I can draw similar parallels with car suspension eg the work of Messrs Lanchester, Olley and Milliken. They are incredibly significant people, and what they discovered we use every day - but they don't dictate the suspension rates I chose on my Insight. They certainly help
inform those decisions, though.
And it's exactly the same with car aero.
Great to know about what the heroes of the 1920s and 1930s discovered, but only within the context of today's knowledge.