RE: PH Carpool: Hawk Stratos
Discussion
jamespink said:
Great job on the build, it looks (and doubtless sounds) fabulous! However having seen Clarkson squeezing in and struggling to drive it (very SWB, silly small cockpit, duff brakes, crazy steering) I concluded you would have to be a tiny rally driving guru to unleash even a road 3 litre version of it. Maybe that's what explains the 1000 mile total?
Duff brakes and crazy steering are probably options, but most of us go for good brakes and steering Look out of the window to explain the 1000 miles. Not so much fun in the rain.
bertie said:
rohrl said:
Lovely looking thing.
You can run it without the bodywork too if you like. Later ones even had a second set of lights inside so they'd still be road legal sans rear clamshell.
Why would you want to do that??You can run it without the bodywork too if you like. Later ones even had a second set of lights inside so they'd still be road legal sans rear clamshell.
kyleecob said:
Do we think good Stratos replicas (like this one) will one day be worth a decent chunk off cash? Well screwed together 250 GTO reps (http://www.pistonheads.com/doc.asp?c=52&i=24588) aren't cheap.
Hang on though, that GTO recreation was based on a Ferrari 250 itself, hardly comparable.Fastdruid said:
bertie said:
rohrl said:
Lovely looking thing.
You can run it without the bodywork too if you like. Later ones even had a second set of lights inside so they'd still be road legal sans rear clamshell.
Why would you want to do that??You can run it without the bodywork too if you like. Later ones even had a second set of lights inside so they'd still be road legal sans rear clamshell.
rohrl said:
Fastdruid said:
bertie said:
rohrl said:
Lovely looking thing.
You can run it without the bodywork too if you like. Later ones even had a second set of lights inside so they'd still be road legal sans rear clamshell.
Why would you want to do that??You can run it without the bodywork too if you like. Later ones even had a second set of lights inside so they'd still be road legal sans rear clamshell.
What about the front??
Just curious!
bertie said:
So are you saying they built it with extra lights already in there just in case they smashed the rear clam?
What about the front??
Just curious!
Yes. Just a pair of lamps on either side, attached to the rear bulkhead you can see in the b&w pic above. No extra lamps at the front. With the weight distribution as it is in these it's all too easy to swing the back end too far and catch a tree, wall or whatever and lose some or all of the rear shell. The minor weight penalty of a few small lamp units is far outweighed by the cost of being disqualified for not being road legal. The same was done on Delta S4, not sure about 037.What about the front??
Just curious!
Another possibly interesting Stratos fact is that Lancia tried 4-valve heads as well as a turbo in 1973 but couldn't get either to work reliably. Sandro Munari retired the turbo in the Tour de France and the 24-valve in the Targa Florio.
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