Daytona Accuracy (Fist Fight)

[Jac Mac]

Originally Posted by SP01715

The roofline on this car is too high. I just watched the special on TV "America's Greatest Race Car" and they talked alot about the roofline on the coupe, and the importance of it coming down lower than normal for aerodynamics. Look at the original in the first post, it looks totally different.

2299 couldnt really called a ' Normal ' coupe given that the high roofline resulted from the incorrectly mounted cowl hoop prior to the chassis arriving in Italy according to the ' Daytona Coupes ' book. Since it would appear that due this it was the car that Gurney spent most of his seat time in, things might have turned out very different were it not for this 'mistake'. Seems funny that this car is also the 'one' that most profile drawings etc are available for, I found out the hard way & had to rework the buck for mine.
Cant really blame anyone for what happened on the cars, the pressure was on, time was of the essence, they had to be ready for Le Mans, from what I understand there were very few drawings etc & they didnt have computers/faxs etc to send stuff back & forth, only phone, & snail mail--yet here we are 40+ years later still trying to get it right & doing it wrong

[SP01715]

On the show Peter Brock was talking about how the guys in Italy raised the roofline (from the original he had built) because they though it looked better. He said it screwed up the aerodynamics on the car, and that they had to fix the rest of the cars they built. It's a good show about the coupe.