Car pics too cool not to share

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Looks fun. Is it streetable or track only?
Street legal, but it's more like a race car you can drive on the street. Full tube chassis, no ABS or traction control, no sump oil system, comes up to about my waste when standing next to it. It is crazy fun - and scary - to drive.
 
Not me... I've never liked the nose those cars.
Not like the tail is much better. It reminds me of the first few times I sketched a car and didn't have a clue how to draw.
Hard to argue with the results on the track, though. Talk about a purpose-built design. First car to break 200 mph at the track, which effectively got them banned from competing in NASCAR.
 
Hard to argue with the results on the track, though. Talk about a purpose-built design. First car to break 200 mph at the track, which effectively got them banned from competing in NASCAR.

I find these cars fascinating, but they need to be lowered with wider tires, so race trim looks best to me. From an old Hemmings article:

"Five miles per hour. That's all Dodge engineers wanted the Charger 500 to gain on NASCAR's super speedways--5 mph.... A 5 mph lap-speed increase would require 85 additional horsepower, they wrote, noting that more than half of the horsepower developed at speeds of 200 mph goes toward fighting aerodynamic drag. They could alternately achieve the same goal with a 15 percent reduction in drag....Testing both at Wichita State University's wind tunnel, using a three-eighths-scale model, and full-size testing at Lockheed's Georgia wind tunnel refined the shape, bringing the coefficient of drag for the car down to around 0.29--an increase of aerodynamic efficiency of about 20 percent."

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/1969-dodge-charger-daytona
Part of that package was vented fenders or "Exhausters" mounted over the front tires which reduced drag by 3 percent.

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