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Originally Posted by unruhjonny
As a disclaimer, all we can do is guess.
Unless you find info, and great photos from the people who were actually at the tests, we are left to guess.
Keep in mind they were journalists, not super fans of these cars - so expect some of the minutia to be lost...
I have read (I cannot recall off hand where), that some of the writers at this time would estimate e/t's - this may serve to explain why the June Car Life, and June Car and Driver magazines had 4/10 of a second difference between them;
Surely they wouldn't be the same car...??
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The 4/10 difference might be from the fact that there were TWO PEOPLE in
the Roger Huntington test cars data. Roger was paralyzed from the chest down when he was 15 years old. No way he could drive the test cars.
So a driver always drove the test cars and Roger Huntington recorder the test data with a stop watch from the driver's seat.
https://www.mmshof.org/index.php/ind...ger-huntington
So there are a lot of other external FACTS, not guesses, that you might not be considering in your assumptions.
Tom V.