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1. top speed? (score: 1): Author: Jack W Drews <vinttr4@geneseo.net>; Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:31:30 -0500; Hey, Wake up out there!! How's this for a thread start: Joe Alexander and Jack Drews both have TR4's with similar but not quite identical preparation. Joe's is a roadster. Jack's is raced with the wi; /html/vintage-race/1998-12/msg00160.html (7,488 bytes)
2. Re: top speed? (score: 1): Author: "Irv Korey" <emanteno@ibm.net>; Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 16:06:16 -0600; While Joe's car has a smaller frontal area, in my unscientific experience, top down TR's are LESS aerodynamic than your car with the hardtop. This observation has been made over many years and many; /html/vintage-race/1998-12/msg00164.html (7,470 bytes)
3. Re: top speed? (score: 1): Author: Calvin Krug <ckrug@laf.cioe.com>; Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:02:58 -0500; The drag due to the larger frontal area of the hardtop is probably about equal to the drag caused by turbulence around the open cockpit of the roadster. If I remember correctly, an MGBGT is slightly; /html/vintage-race/1998-12/msg00166.html (7,905 bytes)
4. Re: top speed? (score: 1): Author: Robert McCurdy <rmccurdy@quicklink.com>; Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:02:59 -0500; At the risk of treading on more informed toes, I think without benefit of a full tonneau cover, the car without the top suffers from a significant low (or perhaps high, I don't remember this too well; /html/vintage-race/1998-12/msg00167.html (8,232 bytes)
5. Re: top speed? (score: 1): Author: mdunst@smtplink.coh.org; Date: Tue, 29 Dec 98 13:34:44 -0800; I would bet that the performance at the rear wheels is not the same.; /html/vintage-race/1998-12/msg00168.html (6,820 bytes)
6. Re: top speed? (score: 1): Author: "Nathaniel J. Leon" <connectcds@home.com>; Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:32:50 -0500; Don't down rate your "unscientific experience". Your obversations about a convertible with the top up and top down are exactly correct and based on accepted principles of aerodyanmics. It is one of; /html/vintage-race/1998-12/msg00169.html (7,167 bytes)
7. Re: top speed? (score: 1): Author: Jim Hayes <hayes@mediaone.net>; Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 22:06:07 -0500; Further confirmation from my experience at Savannah a few years ago. I had my Giulietta Sprint there being co-driven in the enduro by a Giulietta Spider Veloce racer. He had more HP and less frontal; /html/vintage-race/1998-12/msg00175.html (7,320 bytes)

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