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Originally published in Sports Cars Illustrated in March 1961.
When the broad, spatulate Sting Ray body was first created, it was of fiberglass of .125-inch thickness, about the same as on the Corvette. It was reinforced with aluminum, annealed to be soft enough for easy forming; it proved to be too soft to stand up well. After the Road America 500 in 1959, the decision was made to recast the front and rear body sections in lighter fiberglass (.060 inch) before Nassau. This was done by using only three layers of fiberglass silk, reinforced this time with balsa wood! Read the rest of this entry »
At this risk of stating the supremely obvious, we’re not enjoying a lighter-than-usual workload today in order to remember cars. The sacrifices of America’s warriors are the reason for remembrance today, as we reflect on the wrenching experiences that allow our flawed-but-wonderful experiment in democracy and capitalism to persist. But memory is a funny thing. Once you start looking back at through the jumbled scrapbook of past experience, certain artifacts come looming out of the fog.