The Lancia Stratos is an incredibly special car, but more than its specialty, it is on the verge of simplicity. In an effort to design the car to get the goodness of the light racing car, Bertone and Lancia worked out what should be the simplest and yet most effective. window mechanism I’ve never seen. With little more than a wing nut, the unorthodox operation of the Stratos window is infinitely adjustable and totally infallible.
Due to the strange shape of the Stratos, there is not much door to enter the window, so a traditional vertical window channel simply would not. With a traditional window operation, it would have run out of real estate an inch or two from the top. So to get more window on the door, just take a concentration at the time of the stage, or something like that, he mounted the back of the glass on a pivot and created a curved channel in the door to which the front of the glass could be fixed. It is literally a moving part, glass.
While there are so many interesting things about the Lancia Stratos, from its rally history to its Dino-derived engine, I’m caught admiring the glasses. Maybe because I’ve fallen in love with this weird car and its amazing shape from a very young age, I feel even more impressed by things that most would consider quite mundane. Taking a simple problem like lowering the window and turning it on your head to do something as simple as this is just a testament to the creativity and genius of designers and engineers. who worked on this project.
In everything mechanical, I always look for simplicity and light design. In all these years, I have never seen anything as simple and light as the mechanism of the Lancia Stratos window. So far my maximum light weight The history of engineering was that Porsche manufactured the 909 Bergspyder brake rotors from toxic products beril. Sorry German engineers, the Italians have usurped you.