Ferrari Mailing List: Clyde's Ugly slope nose Porsche

[Doug & Terri (dnt]

Our Clyde notes “The best example of this in the car world was when Porsche came out with the slope nose cars 

It's was a horrible design”

 

No doubt for a street car Clyde – but it was a copy of a multi multi winning Lemans and just about every track in the world 935 & 936 that was built to the rule book with a top speed exceeding 220 mph from a 2.8 liter engine.  

 

A kinda “cheata” car.**  And now points for your team -  it was UGH-LY.  The most successful of these had an internal and eventually external name - - - Moby Dick.

 

That car dominated sports car racing from 1976 thru ’78.  So of course every hot rodder just HAD to have a Lemans winner to drive to the store – of course.  There were several ways a buyer could get the street model: 1) Make it themselves using 928 headlamp assemblies; 2) have the Porsche factory do it in their ‘Dream Werks” shop; or, 3) have body shop do it.  The only one that looked well done all the time (such as it was) were the ones done by the factory.

 

End of story

 

DOUG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8q1yMUyXDQ

 

**Note – the base vehicle had to still reside within the “shell” of all the aero dynamic add on’s.  If you had a chance to look down at the rear window, which still had to be there, the plastic screen covering the real window was termed “a rear wing extension.”  That gave a much smoother flow off the roof line to the rear wing.