quote:Originally posted by speedunlimited:
How is it even factually possible that a GT40 with a top speed of 210 mph CAN be even remotely COMPARED to a DeTomaso Pantera which experiences front-end float at approx 135 mph as being, Quote " The designed-by-eye street Pantera was very close to the pure-racing GT-40 in lift and drag".End of quote.
That is PURE B.S.!!!
What makes you think that the GT40 doesn't have lift? What cartoon world do you live in?
It's very simple. You 'model' after another design.
It's the same thing that Ferrari did with 'modelling' after the 911's to get the nose angle right?
No copyrighted materials back then. Steal and steal intellectual properties as fast as you can and run with it.
There are volumes of revisions on the GT40's. The original design was a brick. It took two if not three years to get it to stop running into walls.
There is a whole subchapter where Wyer had his own GT40 nose design that was 'exclusive' just for him, not for Shelby's use. Then there are Shelby's versions by Phil Remington and on and on. Don't call the '68s GT40's. They are 'Gulf's!
The ironic thing about the Pantera is that the "epa crash front bumper' actually improves the air flow design at the expense though of adding some drag.
No DT is right there in the thick of it. Ghia, DT owning Ghia, Ford buying Ghia. 'Someone' there actually knew what they were doing all the time. Amazing when it comes down to it really that any of this really ever happened?
Not bad at all for cars one of which was never intended as a race car and one that was?
It's all 'tit for tat' now. It all comes down to just a 'class struggle' thing but that's what big factory racing is about to a large extent anyway? It was then at least? Who is smarter, who is better, who has the better 'gene' pool?
If you want to believe that the boys in the kitchen at the country club could never run a gourmet kitchen' that is your prerogative.
Right now though, just don't ask for extra mayo on your BLT at the club 'cause...it ain't really mayo? Heh, heh, heh!
Actually though Ferrari had it right. Disgraced by being beaten by a 'Ford' with an engine from an 'industrial irrigation device'. The shame, the shame.
In the end, I'm ok with the black smoke from my Webers in my working class motorized Italian 'folksvagon' 'go cart'.
Make sure your windshield wiper blades are good. You're gonna need them to work right...at least for a little bit until I'm out of view?