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Modified stock car racing, also known as modified racing and modified, is a type of auto racing that involves purpose-built cars simultaneously racing against each other on oval tracks. First established in the United States after World War II , this type of racing was early-on characterized by its participants' modification of passenger cars ...
Some of the early custom cars in Japan, starting in the late 1970s through the 1980s, included Kaido Racers, Japanese cars modified with homemade parts to look like racecars of the time; imported and modified American and European cars; cars modified for top-speed and highway racing; and Dekotora decorated trucks.
Modified from a Porsche 911 GT1, never raced, modified to an IMSA GTS car Harrier: LR9C: 1994 LMP2 Modified from road car sans roof [6] LR10: 2000 LMP900 HPD: ARX-01c: 2010 LMP2 Cars badged as HPD for 2010 season, previously Acura: ARX-01d: 2011 LMP2 ARX-01e: 2011 LMP1 Car only ran in 2011 12 Hours of Sebring before retirement ARX-01g: 2011 ...
The FISA decided to separate the rally cars into three classes: Group N (production cars), Group A (modified production cars), and Group B (modified sport cars). Group B was introduced by the FIA in 1982 as a replacement for both Group 4 (modified grand touring) and Group 5 (touring prototype) cars.
In the early 1950s, Flemke typically drove either his own #61 car or the #1 cars owned and operated by Rich Yurewich. [5] [7] In 1955, he became the regular driver of the #28 and #14 cars owned and managed by Richie and Ray Garuti, continuing with the Garutis through the 1958 season. In 1959, Flemke built his own car again, the metallic blue ...
The forerunners to the hotrod were the modified cars used in the Prohibition era by bootleggers to evade revenue agents and other law enforcement. [7]Hot rods first appeared in the late 1930s in southern California, where people raced modified cars on dry lake beds northeast of Los Angeles, under the rules of the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA), among other groups.
Early '50s Buick mild Kustom with wide whites, new grille and trim spears, lakes pipes, [1] Appletons, and flame job. Kustoms are modified cars from the 1930s to the early 1960s, done in the customizing styles of that time period.
Car modifying has been popular among youths in the US, especially in Southern California, since the days of hot rods in the 1950s and 1960s and muscle cars in the 1970s. . There is significant evidence indicating that import drag racing first started in Southern California in the mid-1960s, with modified Volkswagen Beetles, Ford Populars and Austin A40 Devons: Documentation of quarter-mile ...