Here's one I have to ad: The 1914 Stutz Bearcat -- this was the first car I ever had a picture of hanging on my bedroom wall.
Here's one I have to ad: The 1914 Stutz Bearcat -- this was the first car I ever had a picture of hanging on my bedroom wall.
How about the So-Cal belly tanker at Bonneville?
Toyota GT One
NYG95GA wrote: Major cool. If we're allowed to about talk about old scbool drag racing, how about: "Dyno" Don Nicholson (Maverick), Don Prudohmme (Cuda), Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins(Camaro), etc, etc....
When I saw Dyno Don, the Grump, Wally Booth and others at York US30 around 75 or 76, Dyno was the only one rowing a crashbox 4 speed when the others had advanced to Lencos. If it wasn't this car, it was one just like it.
Good Lord! You can see the frame twist on that launch!
Lotus 49 with Jim Clark on the wheel, doesn't get much better than that
Hatzenbach wrote:
Day-yam! You picked a good one!
I was going to post a Lotus or 2 but I hesitated, some great drivers died in them.
Prewar Auto Unions
Year: 1938 - Engine: Twin-supercharged 3.0-liter V12 - Power: 460 Hp - Topspeed: 330 Km/h
Any Porsche 962, I think they are still the most sucessful race car ever:
The Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR with Moss at the wheel:
This car did not do very well at all but I think it is one of the best looking F1 cars in recient history.
And finally the car that made me think, "You know, American cars aren't so bad after all" CTSV R
Porsche 959!
914-6 GT
Probably the most underappreciated production based race car from Porsche.
Awesome in car vids from very well done 914-6 GT restoration. Incredible for small displacement car.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7O8ePZH5is&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV0ertiYC64
Almost all the Porsches mentioned.
How specific? Just '911' or particular 911's?
how about the 250 GTO?
My second favorite to 914-6 GT is the Hakosuka Skyline GTR
Nice in car vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAXGuD_f3Kw&eurl=http://jalopnik.com/5137265/hakosuka-skyline-gt+r-laps-fuji-speedway?autoplay=true
Nominated for achievement.
Right on! Without BRE, the small car/import scene would look very, very different.
Everybody's already mentioned my favorite road racing cars. A couple of folks have mentioned some of the great Indycars..but so far everyone's forgotten the Novis.
http://www.amazon.com/Novi-Indy-1941-1965-Ludvigsen-Library/dp/1583880372
450hp V8...in 1941! Aye, Cap'n...there be monsters here!
I've lost track....has Group 44 been mentioned yet?
JFX001 wrote: I've lost track....has Group 44 been mentioned yet?
Sort of. They ran the Audi Trans Am program.
jg
STP turbine cars
zoomx2 wrote: I'm surprised nobody has mentioned any of the JPS cars yet.
That's a nice choice, but this is the JPS car really worth mentioning:
http://b.f1-facts.com/ul/a/3582
Close, but no cigar!
as an advertising student, this car is most significant as first F1 car with sponsorship, and as a race enthusiast, this car is most significant as first F1 car with MADS.
friedgreencorrado wrote: Everybody's already mentioned my favorite road racing cars. A couple of folks have mentioned some of the great Indycars..but so far everyone's forgotten the Novis.
The FWD Novi's are covered in Brock Yates' "Against Death and Time". They had a reputation as cursed cars from the straight-in impacts against the Indy wall.
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