The 1970 #40 Le Mans class-winning Porsche 914. It's one of the biggest reasons I own a 914.
Photography Credit: Chris Tropea
We spent this weekend at HSR’s Classic 24, a long weekend of historic and vintage racing at Daytona International Speedway. The 24-hour schedule had cars racing through the night.
Instead of MGs and Triumphs, though, we saw lots and lots of Porsches–from 944 Firehawk cars through all manner of 911–plus tube-frame Mustangs, Riley prototypes and even a Miata or two.
Historic now includes later cars. After all, they are historic, right?
So, a question: If you could race one car from the past, what would it be?
The 1970 #40 Le Mans class-winning Porsche 914. It's one of the biggest reasons I own a 914.
Pretty hard to narrow it down, but pretty much any endurance racer from the '60s or '70s gets my pick. A pre-war race car would also be wild.
I've always had a thing for old silhouette racers
As much as I want to say an endurance car from the ''70s I would pick either a 996 GT3 Cup or a 944 Turbo Cup because of safety. Looking at the older cars up close this past weekend you see just how exposed the driver is and I want a little more cage and car around me.
I have 2.
The 1999 Viper GTS Lemans car
Or the 1990 Cougar IMSA GTO car
In reply to AMiataCalledSteve :
That Mustang is so good.
Bob Tullius's '66 Dodge Dart, to see what the chassis can do when set up correctly.
Audi 200 quattro Trans Am.
Any Group B car. Any. Please!
In reply to Skobie :
You have chosen Honda CRX. 
(At Olympus '86, which was the last time Group B was run internationally, a local entered a CRX. Because it was a two seat car, it was classed in Group B. Results)
I like all the Bs but I would choose something like a Manta 400 or a Celica, just because light weight rear drive fun.
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