- 1. modified sports (score: 1)
- Author: Dave Dahlgren <ddahlgren@snet.net>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 14:25:27 -0500
- can you narrow a modified sports car? and does it have to be a convertible like a healy? Dahlgren
- /html/land-speed/2001-01/msg00130.html (7,294 bytes)
- 2. Re: modified sports (score: 1)
- Author: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 15:40:05 -0500
- Can't narrow the body, but you can use a hard top car, example: Corvette.
- /html/land-speed/2001-01/msg00135.html (7,685 bytes)
- 3. Re: modified sports (score: 1)
- Author: FastmetalBDF@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 16:07:42 EST
- Dave, I may be wrong on this ...... but aren' t all those open Healeys called ROADSTERS ? or did they make both roadsters and converts ? nearby neighbor Bruce
- /html/land-speed/2001-01/msg00139.html (7,392 bytes)
- 4. Re: modified sports (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 15:32:12 -0600
- Yes they made both Convertibles and Roadsters.... though there is some argument about what constitutes what... they also made a Hard top and I have been contemplating running one of those too.... or
- /html/land-speed/2001-01/msg00143.html (7,982 bytes)
- 5. Re: modified sports (score: 1)
- Author: Dave Dahlgren <ddahlgren@snet.net>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 16:30:44 -0500
- Well yeah they are roadsters, but what i was getting at is a car with a hardtop vs one that has an open cockpit.. Dave
- /html/land-speed/2001-01/msg00144.html (7,559 bytes)
- 6. Re: modified sports (score: 1)
- Author: Dave Dahlgren <ddahlgren@snet.net>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 16:32:41 -0500
- Pick the hardtop if you can chop it :>) or it is low already. Nothing has much more drag than an open hole for the air to crawl in to.. you know boundary layer and all that stuff. Dave Dahlgren
- /html/land-speed/2001-01/msg00145.html (8,210 bytes)
- 7. Re: modified sports (score: 1)
- Author: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 17:11:36 -0500
- You can chop it. My question is: Whats the difference between the drag of the roll cage vs the increased frontal area of the choped hard top w/windshield? John Beckett -- Original Message -- From: "D
- /html/land-speed/2001-01/msg00159.html (8,993 bytes)
- 8. Re: modified sports (score: 1)
- Author: "The Backus's" <34ford@email.msn.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:53:35 -0500
- Keith, don't roadsters have a removable windshield and convertables have a solid fixed windshield? John (knows only about old Fords) Backus -- Original Message -- From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net> T
- /html/land-speed/2001-01/msg00165.html (8,570 bytes)
- 9. Re: modified sports (score: 1)
- Author: FastmetalBDF@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 19:09:56 EST
- You have a correct handle on the difference, John BDF
- /html/land-speed/2001-01/msg00168.html (7,164 bytes)
- 10. RE: modified sports (score: 1)
- Author: "George Mitchell" <americanpartnerinrussia@starpower.net>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 20:43:14 -0200
- I think a true roadster just has no back seat george in DC --Original Message-- From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of The Backus's Sent: Wednesday
- /html/land-speed/2001-01/msg00179.html (9,040 bytes)
- 11. Re: modified sports (score: 1)
- Author: "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 17:31:18 -0800
- I believe it has something to do with roll up windows. A roadster has none. Tom, Redding CA (just back from Carson City where I got a tour of Dan Webster's mini-museum) -#216 D/GCC ps: Keith, Dan has
- /html/land-speed/2001-01/msg00229.html (7,405 bytes)
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