A couple days late, I know:
A couple days late, I know:
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Cool 1962 Datsun.
I'm having enough stress figuring out what sort of seals to use on the garage bifold doors without this...
In reply to fanfoy :
I... I had to look it up. The virtual steering axis is a novelty (if an old one, OEC using it almost 100 years ago...), but almost everything else is an alternative front end that manages to have almost none of the advantages of the most common ones (Hossack, hub center, etc), the cherry on top being that at least most of them avoid the telescopic forks' loading tubes in bending, and this one mounts everything from... a couple of tubes hanging down, loaded in bending. See my signature, which just happens to apply extra to this.
Fortunately things got better, though we have yet to supplant teles...
My neighbor likes to part 
Can anyone help me stop buying cars?
NGK 4374
fanfoy said:
I am neither a professional motorcyclist nor an engineer, but I'm really struggling to find whatever advantage that was supposed to have among all the glaring disadvantages.
In reply to Duke :
Duke said:fanfoy said:
I am neither a professional motorcyclist nor an engineer, but I'm really struggling to find whatever advantage that was supposed to have among all the glaring disadvantages.
am engineer, am not motorcyclist. This thing looks like a blatant misuse of material.
Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter) said:
I was at Riverside in 1983 when Rolf Stommelen was killed in his 935. His car was an FIA spec 935 with an aluminum cage. IMSA outlawed the alloy caged cars afterwards. In the photo below you can see the far side of the car was damaged. It was a RD drive car.
Why, yes, that is a JGTC-300 Toyota... Cavalier.
Duke said:Why, yes, that is a JGTC-300 Toyota... Cavalier.
I want those wheels
these were on eBay years ago and I deliberated to long
NickD said:
That looks like a well lightened Deserter GS. (maybe 160 hp, maybe 1000 lbs?):
A slightly different style with the cover off:
Here is one with a similar nose:
Ten years ago I was in a parade and my brother got this pic of my kids watching.
Duke said:Why, yes, that is a JGTC-300 Toyota... Cavalier.
Congratulations. In 42 years on this Earth, that's the first Cavalier I've ever lusted over.
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