Interesting debate. We prize above all other cars on the grid those with
period history running as close to the spec they were at. What if we now
know they were illegal in period? What if the illegal mod protects original
components from inevitable breakage?
David
Larry Dent wrote:
> See my longer message on Gp 44 and the GT 6, but I know for a fact that
> Gp 44 did NOT use anything but standard diff and hubs, but the trick was
> the heim ball in the middle of the spring eye, and that was NOT legal
> with SCCA, but was hidden so well that no tech inspector every
> discovered it. Without that heim for free articulation the spring arc
> would break the diff or the hub. they were plenty strong, but the
> intersection arks of the rear arm and spring would interfear with each
> other once you took out all the rubber bushings and replaced with nylon
> or what ever.
>
> I was the only one who ever know about this outside of Lankie and Bryan,
> since Bob T was my very close friend (still is, Just spent an hour on
> the phone with R.T. last week) and gave the ok for me to see all the
> tricks on the car as I was building one as close to Bryan's as possible.
>
> This aint bull shit folks, I was there and done it.
>
> Larry Dent
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