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Originally Posted by aerohead
This will be an interesting project when you get to it.
It's one car that put the 'body' where most place a rear spoiler. Wolf Heinrich Hucho had mentioned in his 2nd-Edition book that, adding a rear spoiler affected drag and lift almost as good as just designing the aft-body to the same 'height.'
If it was Frank Costin who did the design, I applaud him.
At Cd 0.29, the Europa was probably a benchmark for low drag in 1968, when it debuted. It just so happens to intersect the span of the 'slow,' 2.5:1 streamline body of revolution-derived half-body contour I used for the 2007 AST-I.
I got to drive a spyder version at a party in 1969. It remains my favorite sports car. A real slot-car! Elegant. Visceral. No girly-man creature comforts. Just legs-straight-out, buns-on-the-floor, unadulterated performance!
And driven 'conservatively', no doubt, very efficient, naked, off the boat from England.  |
Thx; yes it's a nice car to start with.
Aero and 649kg.
But some room for improvement left.
The challenge is making changes that are easily reversible so that reverting back to original is easy.
Then I want to keep the "legs-straight-out, buns-on-the-floor, unadulterated performance!" too!
I think perhaps a new thread as I/we're hijacking poor Talos' thread way off course.