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C&R Racing Silver Crown Car

November 19th, 2012 by

The C&R Racing Silver Crown car traces its lineage back to the very first open-wheel cars that raced on county-fair horse tracks a century ago. In the 1960s, Indy car design went to low-slung, mid-engine cars derived from Formula One technology of that time, so in 1971 USAC designated a separate championship (dubbed Silver Crown today) … Read the Rest »

Sprint Car

November 19th, 2012 by

Nothing better epitomizes American grassroots racing than the sprint car. Its iconic roller skate shape hearkens back to a time when the likes of Bill Vukovich, Jimmy Bryan and Parnelli Jones scratched and clawed their ways from the short tracks of America to a front-row seat in the Indianapolis 500. A sprint car feature win … Read the Rest »

Legends Ford ’34 Coupe

October 18th, 2012 by

With its 1930s-era body style, the Legends Car looks like a 5/8 scale model of the home-built Modified stock cars that dominated NASCAR racing in the 1950s. But underneath the fiberglass coachwork lives a thoroughly modern, high-tech, fully-adjustable tube-frame race car. And if the home-built Modifieds represented the birth of NASCAR, the economical, factory-manufactured Legends Car has driven the … Read the Rest »

Street Stock – Panther

October 18th, 2012 by

When it comes to grass-roots racing, it doesn’t get any more “rooted” than Street Stocks. Although there are (nearly) as many different variations on Street Stock rules as there are quarter- and half-mile race tracks around America, the common thread is the use of an older American street car as the basis of the Street … Read the Rest »