Interesting Aerodynamic Cars (Mike Vetter's ETV, also Avion)

[freebeard]

Was watching a video and there was this magazine cover from the 1960s framed and hanging on the wall.



Just big enough I could read the name. Here's the thing -- I can remember when I visited Dean Ing in his shop while he was building this car. Being pre-Coroplast, it was built on corrugated cardboard.


https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...agnum-one-off/

The gullwing doors use the same mechanism as the hatch on my XFi -- a wooden stick.

I see similarity with the Volkhart-Sagitta V2, with front fender pontoons, and a tulip panel below the windshield with enough gap that air can fall off the sides instead of lofting up over the cabin. Just a low two-seater where the V-S was four passenger. Nice last-minute air scoops for the engine, reminding one of the Ford Probe concept with rear radiators:


https://www.vettemod.com/media/ford-...ors-jpg.12307/

However, with a Corvair engine on a Beetle floorpan, they only claim 85MPH where the Volhart-Sagitta did 90MPH on 25HP.

[kach22i]

Wow, that has character.

I'm trying to understand the aft gap above the occupants headrests on the roof.

Open to the elements?

Not for rear view mirror, it's centered.

Cabin ventilation vent?

[Logic]

Gordon Murray Automotive T.50


Impact of a vehicle exhaust pipe position on the lift and drag coefficients: 2D and 3D simulations -

[freebeard]

Logic -- The ScienceDirect link errs (at this time in this location).

Originally Posted by kach22i

I'm trying to understand the aft gap above the occupants headrests on the roof.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...agnum-one-off/

If the bubbles were complete, with that piano hinge location, they would interfere with the roof. But note the cracks around the hinge and the outer wings. Not first-class fiberglass work, but he went on to get a PhD in 1974 and started a string of 30 sci-fi novels beginning in the 1980s.

[Logic]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Logic -- The ScienceDirect link errs (at this time in this location)

Strange. It works for me. Goes to here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...6620272300040X

It's discussed on the forum here:
https://ecomodder.com/forum/showthre...ift-41537.html