<VV> Re: EM handling / Mercedes

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In a message dated 1/21/2005 12:30:35 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
alan.wesson@atlas.co.uk writes:

> >Stirling Moss said that to make the swing axle Mercedes handle he learned 
> >to accelerate
> >whenever the back end started to misbehave.  I think he said an MD 
> >engineer told him to try it.
> 
> Have you ever had a look at the swing axle on one of these? A Lancia 
> specialist I went to last year had one up on the ramp, and the design is 
> HORRIBLE! The axles don't actually even appear to have individual inner 
> pivots, but one of them is pivoted from the other, so it isn't even 
> symmetrical.
> 
> I have never seen anything so odd-looking! How did Nader miss *that*?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Alan
> 
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That's a "Di Dion"  rear suspension........still jacks..but only one side!  
Weird!


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