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The Kurtis Kraft 500B, 500C, [6] 500F, [7] and 500G, [8] are a series of open-wheel race cars, designed, developed and built by Kurtis Kraft, for AAA and U.S.A.C. Indy car racing, between 1948 and 1960.
The Watson Indy Roadster was an open-wheel race car chassis designed and developed by automotive mechanic and engineer A. J. Watson for U.S.A.C. Indy car racing, between 1956 and 1964. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ]
1955 Kurtis 500S 1953 Kurtis 500S, Chrysler-powered 1955 Kurtis 500B Championship Car driven by Jimmy Davies to third place in the 1955 Indianapolis 500. Kurtis Kraft was an American designer and builder of race cars. The company built midget cars, quartermidgets, sports cars, sprint cars, Bonneville cars, and USAC Championship cars.
The 49th International 500-Mile Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on Monday, May 31, 1965.. The five-year-old "British Invasion" of Indy racing by rear engine cars (actually mid engine), which preceded the 1964 British Invasion by the Beatles, finally broke through as Team Lotus, Jim Clark and Colin Chapman triumphed in dominating fashion with the ...
The Novi was first used in 1941 at the Indianapolis 500 under the "Winfield" name; it produced over 450 hp (340 kW), an amazing output for the time. [7] It was fitted to a 1935 frame built for a Miller engine, but its power made the vehicle very difficult to handle.
Image of the winning car of the 1964 Indianapolis 500 (A.J. Foyt) In 1964, with many teams following Lotus's example and moving to rear-engined "funny cars", Watson built a pair of vehicles based on Rolla Vollstedt's successful car. These worked reasonably well, but could not reproduce the success Watson had with his front-engined "roadsters".
IndyCars with Ford engines first competed in 1935 using a production-based Ford flathead V8 engine in the Miller-Ford racer. [7] [8]With the Offenhauser 4cyl 4.4 litre engine mounted in front-engine roadsters dominating Indy 500 races since the 1930s, and with a British Invasion of successful nimble rear-mid-engine Formula One single seater coming to the US, like two time F1 World Champion ...
While Salih would only have two chassis built to his designs, Epperly's lay-down chassis would be common at Indianapolis from 1958 onwards. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Epperly's cars competed in five FIA World Championship races - the 1955 , 1957 , 1958 , 1959 and 1960 Indianapolis 500 ; he performed bodywork on the race winner in 1957 and 1958.