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Old 01-24-08, 03:50 PM   #2 (permalink)
Jay Vickers
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Re: J6 & 0846 in Car and Driver

“In practice, we just made the car comfortable,” Gurney says. “As race cars go, it was like an American car that was roadworthy—big and heavy and fast. When we set the nose low enough to eliminate lift—lower than allowed by the rules, but that’s the way things were done in those days—it would go through the Mulsanne kink at 213 with one hand on the wheel. You wouldn’t expect a car that comfortable to bust all the average speed and distance records—but it did.”

As per the article, Mr. G, (sorry, didn't want to misspell your name) would you happen to know, how low was the nose set down on the car?
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