Saturday, November 18, 2006
Racing, click on these for full size,
Though Smokey set several speed and endurance records with the car at Bonneville, with both a 302 cubic inch and a 396 cubic inch engine, it never won a race while Yunick owned it. It was later sold to Don Yenko, who did win several races.A stock appearing Camaro, Smokey had acid-dipped the body panels and installed thinner glass to reduce weight, tilted the front end down and the windshield back for aerodynamics, widened the fenders, z'ed the front frame, and sucked the floorpan up to lower the car. The driprails were even brought closer to the body for a tiny aerodynamic improvement. Don't forget that the most common thing Smokey did to all his cars, was to streamline them for reduces air drag, all the underside was modified to reduce angles and flow air around flat spots. All of the aerodynamic things Smokey did are readily attributed to his experiences as a B-17 pilot, and the knowledge gained from airplane design and dynamics.
From the Moldy Marvin's car show honoring Ed Roth
Radical
Love the huge tires
Looks like an artists design for a car from the movie "Cool World"
Why?
How?
Love the huge tires
Looks like an artists design for a car from the movie "Cool World"
Why?
How?
This is so wrong
If naming new four doors, after old two doors
If naming new brick shaped cars after old muscle cars that were aerodynamic
If combining options that were never offered together -the R/T and the Daytona.... if any of this made a bit of sense, than why complicate matters by offering the same name Daytona, as a truck?
If naming new brick shaped cars after old muscle cars that were aerodynamic
If combining options that were never offered together -the R/T and the Daytona.... if any of this made a bit of sense, than why complicate matters by offering the same name Daytona, as a truck?
Look carefully at the fan belts, how they were made in the beginning
This bottom picture is of a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost engine, imagine being the engineer who was told to make it functionally perfect, and the designer who was tasked with making it a work of art aesthetically.
