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Old 11-01-2023, 08:12 PM   #776 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
Jim,the upper curvature is the same but a smidge cleaner so it really hasn't changed.
The belly reflects what SAE would recommend for any new car design.At SAE test weight ( 300-lbs ) added to car,it's not supposed to suffer a ground strike anywhere.
We can go below it,but it's got to be 'active',with some sort of facility to 'react' to a threat and move into a 'safe' position until danger passes.
So anyway,I think what you've is basically spot-on.She's a 'LOOKER'!!!!!!!!!
I do like the EPCOT car that GM did,and at some point I'm going to do some 'active' stuff.
Can't wait for weather to improve and see how the Insight's new booty does.
I decided to look up "epcot car GM, and I found the car that caught my eye 30 years ago. It's the Aero 2004, and it was in a book by Paul Van Valkenberg that I bought in the early '90s. Thanks Phil!
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