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'Cascade underneath'
It probably doesn't matter what it is. The bus has been thoroughly wrecked, aerodynamically.
'Lipstick on a pig' ( very nice lipstick though ).
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11-10-2022, 03:10 PM
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The bus has been thoroughly wrecked, aerodynamically.
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How [is that] so?
The wide body adds frontal area. but the lower valance appears much improved. The only things I question are the outside mirrors, the ducktail on the roof and no half-tonneau.
The winglet in front of the rear wheel appears to be becoming astandard feature:
justacarguy.blogspot.com/2022/11/in-toyo-tire-alley-at-sema
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'cascade' wrongness
1) Roof upkick 'wrong'
2) Mirrors 'wrong'
3) Airdam 'wrong'
4) Splitter 'wrong'
5) All four wheel blisters 'wrong'
6) Exposed wheel lower extremities 'wrong'
7) Rocker panel extensions 'wrong'
8) Rear spoiler 'wrong'
9) Diffuser 'wrong'
Perhaps Cd 0.55.
Please forgive me for being too charitable.
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11-10-2022, 08:12 PM
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No. Tell us what you really feel.
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Here's another great-looking car from the World Solar Challenge Cruiser Class, the 2019 IVE Engineering SOPHIE 6s:
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I think you should remove the Photoshop aircraft, has no place in this thread - sorry.
On the Jag shooting brake, it's real apparently, I did a reverse search and this is the original source.
https://www.facebook.com/stationwago...4831600871183/
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1959 Jaguar XK150 shooting brake
Converted by Peels of Kensington to be a support and tow car.
3.8 l, 262 hp
Fun story: the owner, Douglas Hull used it to tow Patrick Lindsey’s ERA single seaters to and from racing events. Hull himself entered a Tholt-y-Will hillclimb on the Isle of Man with the tow Jag, where he achieved a considerably better time than Patrick Lindsey driving his ERA, leading to the famous remark from Lindsey: "My God, I got beaten by my Tow Car!"
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More here:
The Ex-Douglas Hull, 1959 3.8-litre Jaguar XK150S ‘ESTATE’
Registration no. 6797 N Chassis no. S 825043DN Engine no. VA 1219-8
Found a scale model of it, but I'm confused if this was a one off or a production model now.
RIALTO-MODELS - JAGUAR - XK150 SHOOTING BRAKE STATION WAGON 1963
https://www.carmodel.com/rialto-mode...gon-1963/38722
![](https://bucket.carmodel.com/images/cm-lg/38722_2-1.jpg)
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11-14-2022, 10:51 AM
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Here's another great-looking car from the World Solar Challenge Cruiser Class, the 2019 IVE Engineering SOPHIE 6s:
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Lazy as I am, and without personally researching the car, do you recall them mentioning a Cd?
The IVE shares similarity with Eindhoven University's 2017, Stella VIE, of which all Eindhoven would volunteer was that, it's drag was 'below' Cd 0.137 ( Ford Probe-V, GM EV1 LSR, SolarWorld GT ).
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How to make a Pontiac Bonneville interesting and aerodynamic? Have it pull a NASA wooden glider on a tow rope?
justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/06/most-far-out-thing-ive-seen-in-while
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It needed to be able to tow the M2-F1 on Rogers Dry Lakebed next to NASA's Flight Research Center (FRC) now named Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) at a minimum speed of 100 miles per hour. To do that, it had to handle the 400-pound pull of the M2-F1. Walter "Whitey" Whiteside, who was working in the Flight Operations Division, was a dirt-bike rider and hot-rodder. Together with Boyden "Bud" Bearce in the Procurement and Supply Branch acquired the Pontiac Catalina convertible with the largest engine available and then sent it to Bill Straup's hot-rod shop near Long Beach for modification. With a special gearbox and racing slicks, the Pontiac could tow the 1,000-pound M2-F1 110 miles per hour in 30 seconds.
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Story of the M2-F1 here.
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