16-01-2018, 10:41 AM
Tony - that is really useful to know. I'll email thanks directly too.
The horizontal bonnet line thing is interesting. Those Nippy cars which have found it somehow (whether that be through raising cowhorn packing or engine mounts or whatever) definitely have more presence/a more agressive stance. The bit that interests me is the intent from the factory when those (large scale) plans were done - that was a vision which got diluted in reality. We have now found that that with the early 65 drawing (which has nicely symmetrical rear wings wrapping around the wheels), that didn't really happen in practice until the 1936 cars. From a survey of quite a few cars, the very latest do appear to have wings whose design was obviously altered to realise the original plan, albeit when the car was almost finishing production!
The horizontal bonnet line thing is interesting. Those Nippy cars which have found it somehow (whether that be through raising cowhorn packing or engine mounts or whatever) definitely have more presence/a more agressive stance. The bit that interests me is the intent from the factory when those (large scale) plans were done - that was a vision which got diluted in reality. We have now found that that with the early 65 drawing (which has nicely symmetrical rear wings wrapping around the wheels), that didn't really happen in practice until the 1936 cars. From a survey of quite a few cars, the very latest do appear to have wings whose design was obviously altered to realise the original plan, albeit when the car was almost finishing production!