I actually think this whole approach is quite clever. Why not balance the weight of the driver with the engine and fuel tanks? Although I imagine the handling characteristics must change radically as fuel is burned.
Oh for the days when radical experimentation was encouraged.
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It screams of an American Airlines DC-3 in the silver-and-orange livery.
Didn’t Taruffi get blown off the road (literally) driving this car?
One of the TARF cars is down here in Australia – with Dino power, but I dont know how it fits into the timeline. I was always under the impression it was tarf 2, but your caption says that its Maserati powered…
That car must have had the torsional rigidity of a liferaft.