[quote=pepe_plus] gilou-971 a écrit :
je veux bien retourner à ma sieste (là il est 7h36 du matin, je suis au taf...) mais le contour que tu as fait ne colle pas du tout! on prendrait n'importe quel cabriolet ca ferait à peu près pareil.
Sur ce coup-là, je suis pas convaincu 
Il faut bien détourer le profil pour comparer...
Rien que la forme des ailes arrière devrait t'éclaircir...
Bon ce n'est pas grave :
In the fall of 1960, when Troutman and Barnes had left the declining Reventlow operation and were looking for someone to back their new venture, it was only natural to build on the experience they had. Thus, in many ways, their design was an improved Scarab. It would retain the potent GM powerplant, but carry it as far back as possible in a wheelbase as short as possible to achieve a weight distribution as close as possible to 50-50. Altogether shorter, lower and lighter than the Scarab – some 300 pounds lighter and boasting fully independent rear suspension, all-wheel disc brakes and centralised fuel tankage – the proposed “Riverside Sports Racer,” as Troutman and Barnes called it, promised to be a significantly superior car.
“I was not an investor in the sense that I was a participant in the five car program,” Hall explained to Vintage Motorsport. “Their nut was based on building five cars. All I did was buy the first two [which] gave them the budget to get them going. They put a lot of time and effort into building those cars, and I was impressed.”
The trio’s first completed car stood on a wheelbase of 88 inches, four shorter than the Scarab’s. Like the Reventlow car, its chassis was made of 1.25-inch 4130 chrome-moly steel tubes. The multi-tubular structure was not strictly a “space frame” and is now seen as rather limber, but it was somewhat stiffened by a magnesium firewall and front bulkhead and by aluminium panels riveted in place to serve as the cockpit rear bulkhead and flooring. As on the Scarab (and virtually every other car of the time) the front suspension featured double wishbones with coil springs and tubular shocks, plus an anti-roll bar. A Triumph steering rack was linked to English Ford van spindles. The cast-iron brake discs were specially made, although clamped by Girling callipers.
(RM wishes to credit Peter Lyons and Vintage Motorsport magazine for the above Chaparral/Troutman Barnes overview.) [/quote]
ben voilà. Ils sont partis sur l'idée de faire quelque chose comme une scarab en mieux. Avec des choix très différents finalement.
Je cite "Altogether shorter, lower and lighter than the Scarab" : plus court, plus léger, plus bas. ok ces gars-là sont partis de l'idée de base mais le résultat est assez différent.