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Legends car based on Ford coupé 1934 U.S. Legends 2016 Dirt Nationals at 141 Speedway Racing on Beaver Dam Raceway dirt track. Legends car racing is a style of auto racing designed primarily to promote exciting racing and to keep costs down (as of 2022, a brand-new Legends car could be purchased in the USA for $17,500 USD [1]).
The car was fitted with a 570cc Briggs & Stratton Vanguard Model 35 engine. In 2011 a new car was launched, the Dirt Modified. The car is similar to a regular Legends racing car. However a slightly different body and adjusted Bilstein shocks make it handle more like a midget car. Ray Evernham helped develop the new racing car. [2] The first ...
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.
Bandolero cars were introduced by US Legends Cars (formerly 600 Racing, Inc.), the makers of legends cars, in 1997 to be a series of entry-level cars. [1] The Bandolero car is a turnkey, spec-series racer designed for drivers as young as eight years old. [2] The term bandolero is Spanish for 'bandit', 'outlaw', or 'thief'.
Devin also bought out the stock of a Panhard dealer in California, acquiring ten chassis with engines but no bodies. [3]: 61 Devin designed his own ladder frame for a custom race car that used the engine and front-wheel drive transaxle from the Panhards. The wheelbase of this chassis was 2,134 millimetres (84 inches).
The Lola B02/00 is a highly successful open-wheel racing car chassis designed and built by Lola that competed in the CART (and later Champ Car) series, between 2002 and 2006. It was extremely competitive and incredibly dominant chassis; going on to win 4 constructors' titles, 4 drivers' titles, and claiming a total of 73 race wins over four ...
[30] [31] The road car's rear wing was also modified from the lightweight bare-bones racing wing to a wide, swooping rear wing akin to the one found on the Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR Straßenversion. [32] The car was presented at the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans alongside the CLK LM racecars, after which it was sold to a Japanese collector. [22]
A 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider that went on to sell for $4,950,000 in 2009 was offered for sale in the June 1964 issue of Road & Track for US$10,500 (equivalent to $103,000 in 2023), in the April 1976 issue of Hemmings Motor News, the same car was offered at US$16,750 (equivalent to $90,000 in 2023). [32]