Cockpit Design and Restoration Philosophy

hell do you get into this car? It's not even a car. It's only big enough to fit one person, an engine, and wheels. Oh, yes. It's crazy. Yes, we call them purebred cars. As you can see from the shape, they don't have anything else. And the funny thing is, you know, Dan's shoulders stuck out a little , but not too much in this car. And the car was developed for Jim Clark, who was much smaller. So Dan found a way to get into the cabins of these tiny cars as if it were origami. And he did quite well in this one too. He was originally supposed to drive chassis number two. He messed it up in training. So they put it at number one. They only had three in total, so they only had one spare. I believe he finished seventh in this car, and his teammate Jim Clark finished second. So this car here is one of the catalysts for the IndyCar we know today. Rear-mounted, low and lightweight engine. This is what alerted the front-engined roadsters and let everyone know that the European teams were here, that they were coming. They were married to American brands and power, and it ended up being a winning strategy. It has about 370 horsepower. Some of the figures I saw when they started developing it were around 325. And then they reached about 376 on a dynamometer. And I saw some figures that said that by the end of the '63 season, they had reached over 380 horsepower on a dynamometer with this. And you have to think about, you know, almost 400 horsepower in something that weighs 1100 pounds. It's a rocket . 1100 with the engine and ready to run, not just the chassis. 1100 with the engine. Yes. And yet I could still take the corner at about 142 mph on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which was about 5 mph faster than the best roadster at mid-apex, fully loaded. And this qualified, you know what? In fact, I have to look for it. His average speed here, I think, was 149 in qualifying. I don't have the exact figure, but I think it was 149.0 in the classification. Well, your top speed was 170 at the end of the straight because they still had to let off the throttle and do weight transfer and all that back then. Where was this car found? How much of it was found in its original state or was it recreated? I mean, this intake manifold looks like it was probably original, and these manifolds will probably work too. Their technology was not the right one. It wasn't up to the standard we have today. So it's almost all original. We've reviewed it and , you know, when we do restorations,…