The roadster successor to the better-known Gullwing was, in some ways, even better to drive
. The latter win was accomplished after the car of Karl Kling famously experienced a bird strike, taking a buzzard to the windshield at 135 mph on the passenger’s side and knocking out co-driver Hans Klenk. When Klenk came to, bloodied and covered in glass and feathers, he urged Kling to keep going. “Hans Klenk is able to laugh about it by this point, 47 miles after it happened, but he had just been knocked out by a vulture that crashed through his windshield in La Carrera Panamericana.
They were based around a chromoly tubular space frame, with independent suspension including a swing axle at the rear. Power came from a 3.0-liter OHC straight-six making either 220 hp or 240 hp and 294 lb-ft of torque via the first use of mechanical fuel injection in a production car. That was mated to a four-speed manual transmission. Curb weights varied from 2855 to 3131 pounds, and 0-60 mph was listed from 7.7 to 9.3 seconds, slow by today’s standards but pretty quick for the 1950s.
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