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Originally Posted by KaptKaos
Looks similar to a regular Europa, but seems to have a longer flying buttress. Is that the case?
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The original design had sails or buttresses, but the later TWINCAM design had the sails cut down so the car looks more like a pickup than a Van.
Type 47 were race car built for racing and none were ever marketed for the street. They had the butress like the original design, but also had NACA ducts and fuel filler caps in the sails. My body if you look at it has the NACA duct and side fule filler.
Original Europa had a Renault 1.6L engine, but later Twincams had a 1.6 Ford engine with a Twincam head. My car has the Twincam engine but with twsin side draft weber carbs.
Car was at the Chicago auto show in 1986 when I was a member of SCCA. I owned a Lotus Type 51 formula ford and was thinking of putting the engine and trans into my 52, but when the market for histroic race car jump, I decided to just sell the 51.