"Motorsport" has driving impressions (and some b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l-l
photographs) of an Eagle (this particular one, chassis number AAR103 was
driven to third place at Mosport) and a Lotus 49B (Can't find a chassis
number for this one, but it belongs to Classic Team Lotus, has two Monaco
wins to its credit, and was driven by Jochen Ruindt, John Miles, and Emerson
Fitipaldi).
Autosport describes this pair as "Beauty and the Best", not unreasonably
suggesting that the Eagle was the prettiest car of its time (possibly the
prettiest ever) and the Lotus the best, and note that Gurney claims the
Eagle was capable of out-accelerating the mighty
Murasama^x^x^x^x^x^x^x^xHonda RA300, generally regarded as the most powerful
car of the '67 season...
GPL afficionados will not be surprised that while its not really a fair
comprison (the Lotus is a 49B with the benefit of a couple of years
development and running on wider '69 style tyres), the Eagle was regarded by
the authors (Andrew Frankel and Matthew Franey) as being very forgiving and
remarkably easy to drive, and there are some shots of the car _very_
sideways (the contention being that how far sideways, and for how long the
car could be made to go was limited only by steering lock!) to support this
assertion, but that (obviously - it's two years newer and on bigger tyres)
the Lotus was ultimately quicker.
If your local newsagent carries the magazine it will jump out at you
straight away, as it's got a cover photo of the two cars on it, if you can't
find it locally (reasonably easy to get hold of here in the UK, but I don't
know what international distributions like), order _two_ copies because the
first one will be very soggy indeed when you've finished drooling over it...
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