Showing posts with label race cars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label race cars. Show all posts

how a car get designed sometimes is happenstance

photo from http://www.conceptcarz.com/z13765/Cooper-T43-Mark-II.aspx

John Cooper put the engine behind the driver, because when he built F3 cras, he used motorcycle engines and they connected to the drive wheels by chain.

Cooper cars dominated in F3, so the designer Owen Maddock took the concept to F1

Not many advertisements for Nitro out there, or 1970 Coronets race cars.. both found on Us-muscle.tumblr.com

the local San Diego SCCA races in the stadium parking lot this past weekend had a lot of variety of cars

the pre race walk down








I was told the above wing is an actual NASCAR wing, from some 2 year only race eligible spec











Above, looks like is raising a back leg to mark it's territory















even station wagons and 4 door cars





Cobalt SS







incredible photos of the 60's and 70's from http://stiffspeed.tumblr.com/









a rare sight, an AMC full race parking lot, Javelin, AMX, Machine, SC/Rambler





there has to be a connection




















all from http://stiffspeed.tumblr.com