[DeTomaso] What’s weird....

[cengles at cox.net]

Dear Charlie and Mike,


             What is weird is the left headlight is up, but not the 
right.   This seemingly weird arrangement or malfunction is actually one 
of the only known photos of the Snetterton aerodynamic effect used by a 
Pantera in competition.  In brief, the long forgotten (for good reasons 
) paper by Snetterton during the early days of aerodynamics showed that 
the asymmetric elevated headlight changed the front downforce to improve 
turn in for left turns.

             Now, road courses have both left and right turns, so 
optimizing the Snetterton effect requires the driver to also manage the 
headlight switch, steering wheel, pedals and gear shifter.   In practice 
the benefits were meager and the complexity was high.

            That is why it is not utilized more often.  That is why the 
picture looks weird.


                     Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles

                                        Archivist at the Pantera 
Research Institute



On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 9:07 AM, Charles McCall wrote:

> We used to call them "pididdles" when I was a kid :-)
>
> Was that just me? (one headlight car, in case it was just me!!)
>
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 4:05 PM, Mike Drew via DeTomaso <
> detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
>
>> ...about this photo?
>>
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>>
>> Mike
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>> Sent from my iPad
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