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Not a kart but its REAR engined and American
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:43 pm
by REAR
Great article from America's racing past.
http://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports ... j-history/
Enjoy...R.E.A.R.
Re: Not a kart but its REAR engined and American
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 7:38 pm
by ted johnson
I never saw the "Fan-tastic" Chaparral, but I saw the 2C at Sebring in '65, and the 2D Coupe at Daytona in '66. Amazing engineering, and they sounded great. Ted
Re: Not a kart but its REAR engined and American
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 6:39 pm
by Scott Kneisel
Fantastic article, thanks guys!!
Re: Not a kart but its REAR engined and American
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2017 10:39 am
by Mark Loraine
The 2J fan car used a JLO 760cc twin carb, fan cooled snowmobile (Arctic Cat Panther) engine, which was plagued with reliability problems. Never saw it run but did get to see the Pennzoil Chaparral run in 79, 80 and 81. It was also another great Jim Hall innovation.
Re: Not a kart but its REAR engined and American
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2017 5:17 pm
by Chris Marchand
The "sucker" car was at Mid Ohio in the 60 s and it picked up and spit out so much debri/rocks/grass and whatever, I think they wouldn t let it run or banned it .
Re: Not a kart but its REAR engined and American
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 7:56 am
by Rob Voska
So it was a really great track sweeper! The other cars should have liked having such a clean track.
Re: Not a kart but its REAR engined and American
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 3:10 pm
by Chris Marchand
Yea really . Unfortunately it was putting all that crap back on the track and in the faces of the drivers following it !