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The 1964 SCCA National Sports Car Championship season was the fourteenth and final season of the Sports Car Club of America's National Sports Car Championship. It began April 12, 1964, and ended October 31, 1964, after eleven races.
In reality the car's sporting credentials were somewhat lacking, and Iacocca hired Shelby American to develop a version of the car suitable for racing. The Shelby Mustang GT350 was created, with upgraded intake and exhaust manifolds, carburetor, rear axle and brakes installed at Shelby American's shop in California in place of the standard Ford ...
This series began in 1967 with the creation of the SCCA Grand Prix Championship. This series initially permitted SCCA Formula A, Formula B and Formula C cars. As of 1968 cars powered by 5 liter production-based V8 engines (later to be known as Formula 5000 cars) were permitted for the first time. The series folded in 1976 but in some way ...
Carroll Hall Shelby (January 11, 1923 – May 10, 2012) was an American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur.. Best known as a designer for his involvement with the AC Cobra and Mustang for Ford Motor Company, he also developed the Ford GT40 with racing legend Ken Miles, the car that won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969.
A Juno Group CN car won the race but Shelby Can-Am cars filled the rest of the top five. [11] At Phakisa Freeway , Thomas Reib and Sean Greve were classified in second place, the best result of the Shelby Can-Am cars.2014 Final round of 2014 Regional Races at Killarney as well as the Africa 3 Hour which finished with a fantastic tussle between ...
The 1956 SCCA National Sports Car Championship season was the sixth season of the Sports Car Club of America's National Sports Car Championship. It began March 10, 1956, and ended November 4, 1956, after eleven races.
It was the first post-World War II sports car series organized in the United States. An amateur championship, it was eventually replaced by the professional United States Road Racing Championship and the amateur American Road Race of Champions , which continues to this day as the SCCA National Championship Runoffs.
Brock worked at Shelby American until the end of the 1965 season on the Shelby American brand, creating the logos, merchandise, ads, and car liveries. He designed the Shelby components of the Shelby Mustang GT350s [2] and designed race cars for Shelby such as the Lang Cooper, Nethercutt Mirage, De Tomaso P70 and the Shelby Daytona Cobra coupes ...