[DeTomaso] What¹s weird....

[Larry Stock]

And all that with a single Headlight Bar, simply amazing

On 1/22/18, 7:19 AM, "detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf
of cengles at cox.net" <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of
cengles at cox.net> wrote:

>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?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
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