In a message dated 30/08/2001 14:58:48 GMT Daylight Time,
twalter@austin.rr.com writes:
> Chaperral. Yes, Jim Hall's team. Big "sucker fans" on the rear.
> If the fan, or fan drive, failed at speed the car would leave
> the track very rapidly. Something only from a Texan...
Odd that Art Oehrli worked for Chaparral as Dyno and engine man before he
went to BRE for the 1969 season, and that BRE was the first race car to have
a 'spook'. Coincidence or did he bring some Chaparral aerodynamics thinking
to Datsun?
Rob
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