Scottish Elises

http://pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=26431

Harris in a rather special German Le Mans beasty

Semi?

Full-on rager. Will store for lunchtime viewage, methinks.

Do you want me to FedEx you some Kleenex?

Cheers,
Robin

Think this roll needs to be dispatched to Shug


George

What a machine - as Harris says, very possibly the coolest car of all time. It may be sacrilege for the purists to convert a race car for road use, but I think I'd have to have a Dauer 962 in my fantasy garage

Nope, that's still cool, because after the FIA banned Group C, that Dauer was a clever way for them to go back and win it again with a 10 year old design. Maintain it would make a sh*t road car, but for coolness, I can't fault.

For some Lotus content, how's this to flex the fibres of my anorak: In the vid, you see a brief shot of the front suspension and upright. You know that the Elise method of changing front camber - with shims behind the steering arm so you can change camber without re-doing the toe? That was developed on the 956 and copied by lots of racers after that - bleeding down to our little plastic bathtubs.

Geek level - Ninja.

Wow, that is truly off the scale on the techy geekometer And I never knew that Dauers were raced.

Shug wrote:Nope, that's still cool, because after the FIA banned Group C, that Dauer was a clever way for them to go back and win it again with a 10 year old design. Maintain it would make a sh*t road car, but for coolness, I can't fault.

For some Lotus content, how's this to flex the fibres of my anorak: In the vid, you see a brief shot of the front suspension and upright. You know that the Elise method of changing front camber - with shims behind the steering arm so you can change camber without re-doing the toe? That was developed on the 956 and copied by lots of racers after that - bleeding down to our little plastic bathtubs.

Geek level - Ninja.

argh the Force is stong with you today shug ......more lotus content was.... the talk on the downforce ..ground effect ..with f1 was pointing towards lotus in the 70's developing it to great effect with their cars....something the zeegermans were prehaps behind on for once....

ryallm wrote:Wow, that is truly off the scale on the techy geekometer And I never knew that Dauers were raced.

Yep - have to correct myself a little, as GpC wasn't yet banned, but they'd penalised the C1 cars so hard that one could not win Le Mans. They were pushing for road going GTs (this was the year before McLaren went and took 5 of the top 6 spots with the F1 GTR) So Dauer argued that as they'd produced a road car (they had, and that was the only qualifying criteria - much abused also in the later years of GT1) that it was a GT. The ACO tried last-minute rule changes to outlaw it, but Dauer just modified the car. LM 1994.

962c on the streets:

http://vimeo.com/50473835#

spotted another one for shug...and for me that mater........O face on!

http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/clas ... ust/714868

I remember this post from last year as it involved a car, Shug, and a semi.

Same reg, so looks as if it has had a re-spray.



http://www.evo.co.uk/features/features/ ... ed6cdbf416

tut

Not so sure if it has been resprayed or left parked up while the Corpy were yellow lining

Was meaner looking when it was just black.

Stripes / No Stripes, Silver wheeles / Black wheels - I don't care, I want one