Green (any shade) is the slowest colour you can choose.
That's why we blow off MGB's so easy!
Black just FEELS fast 'cause it looks so MEAN!
(I do really love Datsun Sports roadsters in black, I have to say)
Red is always faster
Cheers,
Steve
(Any costs incurred as a result of advice stemming from this thread is on
your OWN heads! 8^) )
'68 2000 Solex: RED
(Maybe I'll get a number plate: REDHP?)
>From: Pamela Pepoy <gppepoy@cybertrails.com>
>Reply-To: Pamela Pepoy <gppepoy@cybertrails.com>
>To: snyler <marc@animalfirm.com>
>CC: Stephen McCartney <sgam@hotmail.com>, robbieharrison@mindspring.com,
>roadster List <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Never rains, but it pours! (Asutralian roadster sightings)
>Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 18:49:19 -0700
>
>OK, OK, OK.
>You guys are confusing me. If I want a really fast roadster....what color
>do I
>paint it? I thought red was the fastest color and that's why there are so
>many
>red roadsters. Purple has some red in it. So that explains why purple is
>fast. Now......Ron Hamilton's roadster is black. No red, no purple and
>that
>sucker is seeeeriously faaast! I'm confused. Could it be that the base
>color
>of the Ron's roadster was red and then he painted it black so it would be a
>sleeper? I need to know. Going to be painting mine. I want it to be fast
>and I
>was thinking that a bright lime green with a red interior would make a
>definitive statement.
>Guy
>67.5 stroker in progress
>Tempe, AZ
>
>snyler wrote:
>
> > Stephen McCartney wrote
> >
> > >Robbie,
> > >It's obvious you haven't actually done timed 0-60mph and 1/4 mile runs
>with
> > >each paint job. It's a scientific fact that light travelling in the
>red
> > >spectrum travels further with less dissipation. This ability to "cut
> > >through" space actually reduces your drag coefficient significantly.
>The
> > >results are easily measured - a red paint job should be equivalent to a
>10%
> > >power increase.
> > >
> > >Really. ;)
> > >
> > >Cheers,
> > >
> > >Steve
> >
> > Because red is has long wave-length it would actually be the *slowest*
> > of colors. Purple would be fastest! ;-)
> >
> > -Marc T.
> >
> >
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> > =========
> >
> > "Any sufficiently advanced technology is
>indistinguishable
> > from lunacy"
> >
> > -A Sri-Lankan observing A.C. Clarke struggling with a folding chair
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