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And here we have a Glasser, at least that's what the owner calls it, see the front plate?
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I had seen it sitting in front of a body shop off and on over the last 8 years or so. It wasn't always there, or in the same position and I figure it just got rolled out of the way when they needed extra room to work on a customer's car.

Luckily, I saw it at a car show last July and was surprised to see that it is licensed for the street.

And after seeing this I bet the owner has at least one kid or grandkid.
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And what is that on the hood? Yet a third one.
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JEEPCJTJ said:
And here we have a Glasser, at least that's what the owner calls it, see the front plate?
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I had seen it sitting in front of a body shop off and on over the last 8 years or so. It wasn't always there, or in the same position and I figure it just got rolled out of the way when they needed extra room to work on a customer's car.

Luckily, I saw it at a car show last July and was surprised to see that it is licensed for the street.

And after seeing this I bet the owner has at least one kid or grandkid.
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And what is that on the hood? Yet a third one.
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I don't love it, but the kids go-kart really brings it together for me.
 
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Zorba said:
Now *THAT* is an odd place to take a picture of a race car! I have a picture of my MBZ in the same place, albeit near the other end of the temple:
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Isn't that the Parthenon in Nashville, Zorba?? You were so close, and yet did not stop by to see me??

I'm hurt.
 
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BlueC said:
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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IIRC one of the articles I posted a while back on these 2 NASCAR cast outs, only one of them had functional vents, and the only way they were able to get away with it was "for tire clearance issues". Which is probably why the Super Bird was "slower" than the Daytona.
 
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reddvltj said:
IIRC one of the articles I posted a while back on these 2 NASCAR cast outs, only one of them had functional vents, and the only way they were able to get away with it was "for tire clearance issues". Which is probably why the Super Bird was "slower" than the Daytona.
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Yep, tire clearance was the official statement to NASCAR. The Daytona and Superbird in race trim both had the fender holes cut so the scoops were functional, but I don't think any of the street cars had the holes cut, so the scoops were just cosmetic pieces, at least until someone got wise and popped a hole under it.
 
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ColoJeep said:
R 5 ! This was such a cool concept. Take a typical front wheel drive econo shitbox and build it into a turboed mid engine rear wheel drive pocket rocket !
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The Renault 5 is such a turd and this thing is so fun. Makes no sense but at the same time it worked. I drove the 5 turbo and not the 2 but I've heard they are similar.
 
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