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Wingless sprint cars are considered the traditional sprint cars, dating back to the first sprint cars in the 1930s and 1940s (that ultimately evolved into Indy cars). Today, they are essentially the same car as a winged sprint car, only without wings. In fact, many of them have the "stub outs" in the frame for adding wings.
The giant wings, generally a maximum of 24 sq ft (2.2 m 2)' in area, are mounted on the frame in a manner resembling sprint cars and serve a similar purpose, designed to produce downforce and thus increase cornering capabilities at high speed. West Coast (ERA/SMRA) cars run a fixed wing, whereas East Coast (ISMA/MSS) cars generally run a wing ...
The company built midget cars, quartermidgets, sports cars, sprint cars, Bonneville cars, and USAC Championship cars. It was founded by Frank Kurtis when he built his own midget car chassis in the late 1930s. [1] Kurtis built some very low fiberglass bodied two-seaters sports cars under his own name in Glendale, California between 1949 and 1955.
The Hustler was a Mini-based project designed in 1978 by Aston Martin Lagonda designer William Towns and later developed into a kit car by his Interstyl design studio. The original version used upper and lower square-section steel frames, clad with glass fibre panels and large flat glass windows. On most models sliding side windows acted as doors.
Edmunds created the blueprints and did most of the fabrication work on the original Bill Thomas Cheetah prototype sports car racer. His chassis won several National Midget Championships in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [2] In the 1970s, Edmunds was a prolific constructor of Formula Super Vee cars. [3] He became a collector and restorer of old ...
The roofs are very flat, and tilted to catch additional air. The front suspension is usually a coil-over setup, with a torsion-bar set-up for the rear suspension. They utilize full tube chassis, which to the untrained eye, looks like a sprint car chassis, but is much different in reality.
Mallock U2 Clubman car Mallock U2 front V. Davies's 1500cc Mallock U2 at the Llandow Circuit, South Wales, August 1966. Scanned print taken with a Halina 35X Super. The Mallock U2 is a race car, designed, developed and built by Major Arthur Mallock and later his son Richard. Arthur’s first customer race cars were simply called U2.
IMCA Modified IMCA Stock Car IMCA Hobby Stocks IMCA Northern SportMod IMCA Southern SportMod IMCA Sprint Car IMCA Sport Compact. The International Motor Contest Association (IMCA) was organized in 1915 by J. Alex Sloan, and is the oldest active auto racing sanctioning body in the United States.