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My other favorite is the acid-dipped 1967 Penske/Donohue camaro.

" SCCA tech inspectors discovered that most of this Camaro's metal bits and all of its body panels were acid-dipped—an ethically questionable process carried out at Lockheed Aerospace in California. This acid bath reduced the Camaro's weight from the stock 2920 pounds to an Oprah Slim-Fast 2550 pounds. At which point Donohue, who of course ultimately had to strap himself into the thing, became alarmed about the car's structural rigidity, then roughly akin to a 15-foot roll of Reynolds Wrap. His solution was to install a NASCAR-style roll cage, one of the first in sports-car racing. The cage effectively served as the car's frame. ...noticed that the car's left-front fender was obviously acid-dipped—it is so thin that you can make dimples in the metal with your fingers."

https://www.caranddriver.com/review...-donohue-trans-am-camaro-archived-test-review
 

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My other favorite is the acid-dipped 1967 Penske/Donohue camaro.

" SCCA tech inspectors discovered that most of this Camaro's metal bits and all of its body panels were acid-dipped—an ethically questionable process carried out at Lockheed Aerospace in California. This acid bath reduced the Camaro's weight from the stock 2920 pounds to an Oprah Slim-Fast 2550 pounds. At which point Donohue, who of course ultimately had to strap himself into the thing, became alarmed about the car's structural rigidity, then roughly akin to a 15-foot roll of Reynolds Wrap. His solution was to install a NASCAR-style roll cage, one of the first in sports-car racing. The cage effectively served as the car's frame. ...noticed that the car's left-front fender was obviously acid-dipped—it is so thin that you can make dimples in the metal with your fingers."

https://www.caranddriver.com/review...-donohue-trans-am-camaro-archived-test-review

Watch The Grand Tour episode that talks about the WRC rivalry between Audi and Lancia when Audi introduced AWD to the sport. Lancia went so far as to make roll cages out of cardboard tube lol.
 

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