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Interesting information Dan. When I said that I didn't know if there was any scientific information I meant about the Pantera Specifically.
I did know about the GT40 testing.
I had never seen the test results on the Pantera, nor the Boss 302 and the Mustang.
I vagely remember someone mentioning that thier Boss 302 race car was summoned to Europe for wind tunnel testing.
Now I can't remember who that was. Sam Posey? I seem to think that it was Mark Donahue but I think he was already driving the Camaro for Roger Penski at that time. Dam, who was that?
I notice that the Pantera does have some similarities in testing to the GT40. I am pleasantly surprized.
I'm surprized the the Pantera has so much drag and yet it doesn't require signifigantly more hp to push it through the air then the GT40.
I'll bet that the GT40 has front downforce because of the radiator configuration and exhaust ducting up and over the hood and winshield.
I do remember a drag coefficient being quoted for the Pantera of .29.
Was it from this test?
That's an impressive number even today.
I know the Pantera needs help keeping the nose down. These numbers confirm that.
Too bad we can't see what items like a GTS chin spoiler or a Revson spoiler would do?
I have to presume that the Detomaso GT4-5 bat ear "window scoops" didn't just happen. Someone must have developed them. They are too strange looking to be a design exercise and not work.
They do tend to remind me of the oil cooler scoops on the Lamborghini Countach for some reason though.
Now that is a car that I question if anything really works on. I'm wondering if most of it is just 70's eye-techno-candy?
I heard Jackie Stewart say something like that about the Lamborghini I think. I wonder if that was just because he was in Fords employ as a spokesman?
I also wonder if Ford gave him the Pantera or if he actually bought it?
The Pantera draws interesting company I must admit.