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Default A Very Light Car

On Mar 27, 11:50*am, Ed Huntress wrote:







most importantly, you'll see
the weakness in the vast majority of those frames: a lack of torsional
stiffness in the passenger bay. The Locost is weak in that area but no
worse than a Lotus 7.


Ed Huntress



I had an interest in the Locost a while back. i do not remember which
web site , but someone has analysed the original Locost frame and
published the design of a modified frame that is much stiffer than the
original frame.


Dan