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Bartman09

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The Dick Johnson "the real story of a folk hero" has the photo in it. It was Bathurst where he drove with Gary Scott
 
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Beejay

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That's the ones. There is a pic in the hardtops book of all the crew and the fruits, I'll put up later.
 
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Bigcol

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Get this going again.


In 1971 the works Fords had a little cheat that let them run more camber in the front end and stopped the front of the car from diving under hard braking.
It was done to the upper control arm.
What was it???
 
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Beejay

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I read an old interview with Howard Marsden that talked about the Phase IV having dual pick-up points to give a choice of roll centres, that was kind of illegal in the XY. So was it that the pick-up points were illegally fudged?
 
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Bigcol

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Close enough.
The holes where the upper control arm where roughly 25mm lower on the works cars and they didn't even try to hide it , as they left the proper holes in the shock tower for all to see.
In fact a young scrutineer by the name of Lowndes spotted it and was told in no uncertain terms that Ford weren't that stupid to do something so obvious.
The Phase 4 had the holes in the same spot they just didn't drill the proper ones
 
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Beejay

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I'd say there was more than that that was not quite legal. During practice Frank Matich, Goodyear tyre distributor told Bill Brown to be carefull as his tie rods were rubbing the inside of the tyres under side-load. The works cars had no such problems with theirs...

Bill did not take heed and rubbed through the tyre case on race day...
 
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