Name that car 2

[lowdrag]

So, to avoid you looking up the code I've changed it so no good looking there! Here's an interesting car well known in racing cicrles.

[digitalcraft]

I just want to say I wouldn't have revealed the last like that if several people hadn't already guessed it. :P

[HuisZi]

i think jaguar, e-type/d-type? ok.. i have no idea

[acfsambo]

IM going an Aston of some description, not sure wat though.

[Black Edition]

jaguar C-type? I really have no idea

[switters78]

I'm thinking maybe a Lotus...Lotus 11 perhaps?

[coolieman1220]

interesting spot for the brake rotors. does that change any of the braking / handling characteristics?

[Matra et Alpine]

^^^ yes. Inboard discs reduces the effect of the unsprung weight.
Less mass at the wheels allows them to follow the road surface better and hence provide better grip/traction.

[henk4]

Judging from the colour and the Dion axle, possible a DB3, but I have not seen this dash on any of the 17 cars I met in real life.

[LeonOfTheDead]

^^^ yes. Inboard discs reduces the effect of the unsprung weight.
Less mass at the wheels allows them to follow the road surface better and hence provide better grip/traction.

indeed. too bad for the overheating though.

[lowdrag]

No one is near so far. Jaguar C types had outboard discs, not inboard. Yes, it's a Jaguar rear end but the car? Think sideways!

[henk4]

No one is near so far. Jaguar C types had outboard discs, not inboard. Yes, it's a Jaguar rear end but the car? Think sideways!

Quote from How Stuff Works:Jaguar D-Type at LeMans

"Another item was tested but not adopted for LeMans: a de Dion rear suspension. The D-Type had been designed specifically for the French circuit with its ultra-long straight, predominantly medium-speed corners and unusually smooth surface, and Jaguar's traditional live rear axle worked well enough there.

On other tracks, though, the D-Type sometimes lost ground through wheelspin out of slow turns and wheel hop over bumps. The de Dion system, then common on Grand Prix cars and some of Jaguar's more sophisticated sports-racing rivals, was a halfway step to full independent suspension.

It retained the basic beam-axle geometry, so that the driven tires remained squarely on the road, but relieved the wheels of carrying the burden of a differential. In back-to-back tests, it seemed to make the Jaguar a little faster around some tracks. It would probably have shown no advantage at LeMans, though, and as a still-new, somewhat heavier design, it was left off."

Was it taken over in one of the Tojeiros or is it a Lister?

[digitalcraft]

Kind of a wild guess, but Lola Mk1?

[digitalcraft]

O wait. What is your icon?

[lowdrag]

My avatar is me at Woodcote in my Lynx D type, but a Jaguar IRS has four shock absorbers and this has but two. No joy there then. A definitive answer from someone?