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  1. teegeefla

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    #1 teegeefla, Sep 10, 2005
    I recently came across some photos of this car in a Vintage racing magazine that showed it as raced as #25 at Daytona in 1970. It had an oddly shaped roof addition, presumably to accommodate Dan Gurney's height. What I cannot discern from the photos is whether the addition is wedge shaped or "humped", if the trailing edge is open to the cockpit or is it a complete roof, and how was it fabricated and attached? Chassis 1014 is listed as a berlinetta, but it almost looks like NART just grafted a new roofline onto a spyder. Does anyone know the details? Thanks.
     
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    #3 piloti, Sep 12, 2005
    I don't have any answers either, other than to say that it's definitely a modified berlinetta.
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    #4 teegeefla, Sep 13, 2005
    Thanks for the help...and since I no longer have my tape of the movie LeMans to use a reference...does anyone know how the doors on the Berlinetta 512s were hinged? It appears from the photos that the roof extension had some sort of concave shape on the sides; would that be to allow clearance for the doors if they were forward-hinged (Lamborghini-style) or top-hinged (gullwing style) or was it an attempt to shape airflow to the rear?
     
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    I believe they open in a similar way as the Enzo, but with a wider angle.

    Ciao, Peter
     
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    #8 teegeefla, Sep 13, 2005
    It looks safe to say, based on the picture of the open door, that the concave shape of the roof bubble was to allow the door an unrestricted upward swing. Thanks.
     
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    I had the same question once and I went through every picture I could find of 512S&M's and there are two ways the doors open. The early cars had hinges straight across the front of the door like in the picture referenced above with the doors swinging open Lambo style. The other style is one hinge low and outboard and the other hinge high on the front edge of the window frame with the door swinging up, forward and inward. I would imagine this was to give the hinges a wider stance making it stronger and also to hold the top leading edge of the window stable at high speed. Most M's have the wide spaced hinges but I think Walter Medlin's M car had the two low hinges. If you look closely you'll also notice the front of 512S doors are wider than the front of 512M doors possibly leading to this change.
     
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