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By David Beare
From the VeloceToday Archives, November 2013
It is unlikely that Louis Delagarde, the designer of Panhard’s flat-twin engine, could have foreseen the scale of competition successes his diminutive power-unit would achieve when he began work at his drawing-board during the dark days of World War II.
By David Beare
From the VeloceToday Archives, November 2013
It is unlikely that Louis Delagarde, the designer of Panhard’s flat-twin engine, could have foreseen the scale of competition successes his diminutive power-unit would achieve when he began work at his drawing-board during the dark days of World War II.
The Panhard-CD exhibited a Retromobile by Autodrome is chassis #LM64-01, race number 45, driven by Pierre Lelong and Guy Verrier. The car retired at 4.00 AM, after twelve hours, due to a failure in the transmission. Photo courtesy Autodrome Paris.
By Pete Vack
When you read the letters CD in terms of aerodynamics, it is usually assumed that they stand for “Coefficient of aerodynamics”, Cd, or Cx as some would have it. Others would have it differently, for the letters CD also stand for Charles Deutsch, whose lifelong ambition to create efficient race cars has been largely overlooked and yet is so important.
[Read more…] about “CD” and the Last Racing Panhard