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12 posted on 01/14/2018 9:55:54 PM PST by Daaave ("You Nexus huh? I design your eyes.")
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Great pix! Thanks for sharing.

Bottom one is at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan. Saw the car. Amazing bit of mechanical engineering. No fly-by-wire crap in it. Just good ‘ol AAA-mer-i-can engineering, done by slide rules (ok, might have been an early mainframe or two for help) and T-squares on drafting paper.

In Dearborn. Think about it.


13 posted on 01/15/2018 12:07:37 AM PST by Sam_Damon
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Gurney and AJ Foyt ran that GT 40 to a 32 mile lead at al Le Mans. 212 MPH down the Mulsanne Straight. He was one of the very best.


15 posted on 01/15/2018 3:11:09 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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Did you notice the little dome on the right side of the roof? Gurney was so tall that they had to put that in so that he had clearance for his helmet.


18 posted on 01/15/2018 4:47:59 AM PST by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: Daaave

I saw that MkIV several times at the Monterey Historic.
Not racing but just static.


22 posted on 01/15/2018 8:39:22 AM PST by Zathras
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