a Bill Frick Cadillac Special, in the spectator parking lot at the 1963 Sebring 12 Hr. race.

In 1955 Bill decided to build his own cars with his name on them and so shipped a Studillac chassis to Vignale carrozzaria in Italy to be styled and bodied. 

In 1956 the new exotic prototype was delivered and soon appeared on the cover of Sports Car Illustrated

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10164640768607936&set=gm.3203155876544307&idorvanity=527146584145263

Did Heff sponsor Bob Bondurant in the 1959 Laguna Seca?

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=28151563154474136&set=gm.3474659989374247&idorvanity=132380976935515

from the enjoyable facebook page  Vintage Men, Classic Sporting Life & Adventure  https://www.facebook.com/groups/132380976935515/

1954 WD Denzel 1300

https://straightspeedphoto.blogspot.com/2026/04/1954-wd-denzel-1300.html

is a 1965 Shelby GT 350 Mustang a sports car? Seems like not everyone agrees with me on what qualifies as a "sports car"

 I call the Camaro, a sports car.... and BOOM! Instantly got pushback from a couple guys. 

Ok, not EVERY Camaro is a sports car! BUT, I don't think about every one of them. I think about the cool ones. Life's too damn short to give a shit about the lousy cars. 

I have a 68-69 Z 28 in mind when I think of Camaros, and the newest Camaros, on the track in the Optima Challenge. 

When someone commented that the Camaro was, at best, a Pony Car, maybe a muscle car... well, damn, I'm not the only one who has a specific car, or year of the car, in mind. Reggie Jackson knows they are muscle cars, he owned at least 1 ZL1 Camaro, and Don Yenko knew they were muscle cars. No one denies they are pony cars. That's not even this conversation. 

So, why deny they are sports cars? Just to wind me up and see if I'll vent? Ok

Don't tell Don Yenko, Roger Penske, Mark Donohue, and the SCCA that a Camaro isn't a sports car. 

There's not a lot of difference between the C7 Corvettes and the last gen of Camaros, and I think you'll agree that seriously makes the recent Camaros sports cars, else why else would so many of them be at the Optima Challenge? But no, the 70s Camaros, the 80s and 90s Camaros? Not so much, not unless they were track prepped like the IROC racers

You might argue that if it has to be track prepped and race ready to be a sports car than it isn't one, well, that's going to blow the argument that some have made that just being a British, Italian, or German 2 seater drop top or roadster, built with greater breaking and suspension, they are automatically a sports car. 

There are simple too damn many hundreds of thousands of mediocre cars made by sports car companies that prove that having the manufacturer Lotus Porsche, Mercedes, Jaguar, etc etc, name plate doesn't make their cheap junk a real sports car.... so, yeah, being a car made by a sports car company doesn't automatically make a car a sports car, and being made by Chevy, Ford, Dodge, etc doesn't automatically exempt their cars from being a sports car. 

So, getting back to the Camaro. If it's not a sports car, then why is Mark Donohue in the SCCA Hall of fame? Hell, the SCCA has an award NAMED for Mark Donohue! 

That is BECAUSE in 1968 Donohue had an unprecedented 8 race winning streak, and Chevrolet won 10 out of 13 races. That's just one example of why I am stating that the Camaro, especially the 67-69 Z-28 is a sports car. 

So then the guy argues with me that the Camaro was racing in the sedan or other class... well, I reply, in WHAT EFFING RACING SERIES? Oh, yeah, the SPORTS CAR CLUB of AMERICA (SCCA) ergo, to race in the SCCA, I'll just take a stab in the dark and say that to get a membership/racing number/accepted on their series/race tracks/championships/Gran Prix, it's a damn sports car. 

I think you'll all agree that some stupid cars have been anointed as sports cars, including the Crosley Hot Shot.   https://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_1657867_1657678,00.html 

Here's the argument I'm responding to

"SCCA does not have a class called "Sports Cars'. A Camaro could run under Sedan or Touring though. I assume you mention Penske and Donohue for their participation of racing Camaros in Trans-Am back in the day. But the TA series was originally known as the Trans-American Sedan Championship. The sedan word was dropped from the title, but sports car was never added."

Yes, let's take a moment.... and focus on that, that Trans Am Championship? THAT WAS THE SCCA's race, god damn it.  

The 1968 Trans-American Championship was the third running of the Sports Car Club of America's Trans-Am Series.

So your argument about the mistake you made about the Trans Am races? Clarified now that you have been informed that THOSE were SCCA races. 

So, I repeat, Camaro = sports car. 

Also - if you skipped past what the letters SCCA stand for, and go right to the classes, then, maybe you missed that they are all SPORTS CARS. 

More of the argument I'm responding to: 
To me a sports car has only 2 seats and a top that drops. Otherwise it's a GT or something else.

Anyone else instantly think they've just read a statement that wasn't thought about first?

So, my response?

Then to you it's not a sports car if it's a hard top? Really? So, no hardtop Corvettes are sports cars, to you? No Porsches, BMWs, Jaguars, Mercedes gullwings, Abarth Fiats, NSX, AMX, Aston Martin, Audi R8, Callaway Corvettes, Vipers, Panteras, Ferraris, GT 40, Lamborghini, Lancia Stratos, Lotus, Maserati, McLarens, Morgans, Fiero, Spyker, and Toyota Supra are sports cars if they have a hardtop? Really? Did you want to stand by that ridiculous definition? 

He... well, I imagine he regretted his earlier hasty statement about a top that drops. Not that he backed off the denial of the Camaro as a sports car.. but here is his latest... 

 what the letters in SCCA stand for is really not important.

(I shit you not, I am not making that up, that's either stupid or ignorant, am I right?) 

Yes, I will stand by my statement. Because I said, "TO ME a sports car has only 2 seats and a top that folds down". I realize that most people don't agree with this. But that's ok, they don't have to. I like this traditional definition from way back when. But I can compromise my definition. Some of the cars you mention: Corvettes - soft top or hard top - ok, sports car. Porsche - depends on the car. 911, Cayman, Boxster - yes. The 924, 944, 928 - no, those are GTs. I think it's obvious about their SUVs. 

Not obvious to you, the Macan or Cayenne outperformed the 911, I remember posting about it a long time ago

Jaguar - only the drop tops and definitely not any of the sedans. An E-type convertible is a sports car, but a E-type coupe is a GT. 

NSX - ok, yes a sports car 

AMX - no. Muscle car 

Aston Martin - really? They were always marketed as a GT car.  ( I don't car how the car was marketed. You're telling me that James Bond wasn't driving a sports car? Really?) 

R8 - ok 

Ferrari - depends on the model.  They make GT cars and sports cars. I would contend they have made more GTs than sports cars.

 Morgan - most all of them are 2 seat drop tops so not sure why you mention them. (their new Aerocar) 

 Fiero - LOL... really? That's what they promised, but the early ones were just commuter cars. The sportiest versions were actually called the GT as I recall.  (Again, I don't care what a car was called, or marketed as, what a car IS matters, NOT what the advertising and marketing department called it to make sales happen. If it quacks like a duck, and waddles like a duck, if it doesn't, it don't matter what color the racing stripes are. ) 

 Anyway, back to the subject of the Camaro. I love Camaros, Firebirds, Mustangs, 442s, GTOs, Chargers, Challengers, etc. They can be fun and fast. They can be raced. I've even owned a few. But they are not "sports cars". In my opinion. (I didn't ask what your opinion was of the 442s, GTOs, Chargers, and Challengers, I pointed out that a hardtop Viper is indeed a sports car. Just admit it. )

Someone else emailed me to say that a mass marketed car wasn't a sports car. 

AND that "In order to race them thy had to build suspension that would keep them on the track but most people wouldn't like in their daily transportation."

Really? So, again, you're sure that you thought about that before hitting send? The Corvette, 911, etc are all mass marketed. 

No, they didn't build better suspensions to race them... anything can be raced. Fred Flinstones vehicle can be raced, Amish horse buggies can be raced. 

They built better suspensions to WIN races. And THAT is why all the sports car companies have RACE cars and gen pop cars. They DON'T take the gen pop cars to the ring to achieve impressive results, they only bring the race prepped cars. Same with the Vipers, Corvettes, BMWs, Porsches, Mercedes-AMG, Lamborghini, GTR, etc

And getting back to the Shelby GT 350 Mustang, which seems to annoy both those guys that it's called a GT, and it's a hard top, and a 4 seater... and I like this part the most, it proves that a Mustang could be a sports car.  The GT 350 was the B Prod champion 3 years in a row.  And it qualified as a sports car to the SCCA by tossing the back seat and putting in a spare tire in that place. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Trans-American_Championship
https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/best-cars-vans/86123/fastest-nurburgring-lap-times

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_Mustang#:~:text=The%201965%20GT350%20was%20built,champion%20for%20three%20straight%20years.

Summed up, I think anyone that prefers to define what some term is, rigidly, screws up. Hot rods, Muscle cars, and Sports Cars all have too damn many variations to be defined in a short couple sentences... but, guess what? I was emailed all the dictionaries definitions of "sports car".  Here's what a bunch of desk bound admin types who can't use a clutch think a sports car is:

 

WEBSTER; a low small usually 2-passenger automobile designed for quick response, easy maneuverability, and high-speed driving . 

CAMBRIDGE; a fast, low car, often for two people only. 

DICTIONARY DOT COM; a small, high-powered automobile with long, low lines, usually seating two persons. 

OXFORD; a low, fast car, often with a roof that can be folded back. 

COLLINS; A sports car is a low, fast car, usually with room for only two people. 

BRITANNICA; a low, small car that seats two people and that is made for fast driving

I'd like you to keep in mind, these are just as likely to be the definitions of Hot Wheels, Matchbox, toys, and race cars. Hell, these definitions allow for those automobile sto have a pickup bed... you know, like a truck, El Camino, Ranchero, and that cool old Hudson truck that looked like a car with a bed, as the Webster and Dictionary.com definitions didn't mention "cars" just automobiles, as, to define something has to cover the whole category. Like the earliest "sports cars" which I'll say include the Stutz Bearcat, and most websites and writers will agree with me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stutz_Bearcat  https://silodrome.com/stutz-bearcat-car/

Anyway, I've had my say, time for any of you who choose to, to say if a Camaro is a sports car, or not. use the comment section please, not my email. Most of you have had a couple more decades than I have to have formed an educated and experienced opinion on the Camaro's viability, or status, as a sports car 

this is not a Ferrari... it's a Lotus Emira

the Donkervoort F22 just set the world record for the most lateral G ever for a production car. On Nankang tires, the F22 managed to pull 2.3g of lateral acceleration at the Zandvoort F1 Circuit in the Netherlands (thanks Mike!)

https://carbuzz.com/news/dutch-supercar-sets-new-handling-world-record-by-accident

I've only posted a Donkervoort once before, last July, when I learned there is a 2 year waiting list to buy one in the USA. 

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2022/07/donkervoorts-quarter-million-dollar.html

When the Avro Arrow program was cancelled in February 1959, many of the engineers were rendered jobless. Ross Ferguson, found himself looking not only for work, but for a project into which he could channel his untapped ingenuity.

He found the former at Northern Secondary, teaching machine shop to tenth-graders; and the latter in a sports car he’d already started building from scratch.

As it turns out, a lot of the skills Ferguson honed as a machinist developing tooling for the planes could be directly transferred into the design and fabrication of a Le Mans-inspired homebuilt roadster. 

He had planned this build for almost a decade, but in 1959, its construction began in earnest. Eight years later, in 1967, the garage of their little bungalow in Downsview had parked in it a car unlike any other.

The windshield is a Vauxhall rear window flipped around, but the bubble-style side screens are Plexiglas, heated up in the family oven and formed by his wife standing on the molds. (The headlight covers, which carry the body lines through their length, were similarly molded.)

He ordered the Fairlane-spec K-code 289 a 271-hp unit with a four-barrel carburetor, date-coded May 1967 – from the manufacturer in the U.S., via a Canadian dealer. Or at least, he tried to.

 “The first two engines didn’t make it across the border—they were stolen, because these engines were so sought-after,” explains his daughter Lesley. Fed up with Ford’s failed deliveries, Ross eventually crossed into the States after work one evening to pick up the third V8 himself.

Then one day in 1967, the eight-year-long project was complete, the Ferguson Super Sport, resplendent in its metallic green, sharing space in the driveway with Ross’ new 1967 Ford Mustang. It wouldn’t be long, however, before this rolling testament to one man’s ingenuity would be hidden away.

Ross continued to occasionally drive the Ferguson, but by ’69, he’d resolved to take advantage of changes to Canadian aviation regulations and pursue the pilot’s license that his use of eyeglasses had kept him from his entire life. 

By the mid-’70s, the workshop behind the Ferguson house was being used for its intended purpose—a space for Ross to build his own airplane.

The Super Sport was basically abandoned. 

“It would sit on blocks, and then it rusted out,” says Lesley. Maintenance on a one-off car isn’t easy, so a thousand little fixes piled up until after the plane was finished in 1983. “He pulled it out of the garage, and after over a decade, it was a mess,” she recounts. “He had to strip the car down, the seats had to be redone, the engine had to be overhauled.”

The restoration was but a brief reprieve for the Super Sport. In 1988, perhaps nostalgic for his work on the Avro Arrow’s turbojets at Orenda, Ross got the itch to engineer a warbird from scratch—a two-thirds-scale replica of a Second-World-War-era Supermarine Spitfire fighter plane, powered by a Buick-Rover automobile V8.

 That is to say the Super Sport was neglected yet again until the Spitfire saw its first flight in 2003, save for a second refurbishing in the late ‘90s. The one-time head-turner was became a dusty relic mired in myth.

It found a new owner in 2020 after Ross died

https://driving.ca/feature/the-ferguson-super-sport-was-a-homemade-sports-car-built-from-the-avro-arrows-ashes

Thank you Terry!

1967 Toyota 2000GT

https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/pa23/paris/lots/r0022-1967-toyota-2000gt/1308072/photos

Donkervoort's quarter million dollar hand-built and ultra-light sports cars that 0 to 60 mph in 2.7 sec, will be available to purchase in the US, good news because there is a 2 year waiting list already in Europe

Although it was founded in 1978, Donkervoort’s stripped-down, enthusiast-friendly, fastest street-legal cars in the world, have never been available to buy in the US before. But entering the US market has been a long-term goal for the marque’s managing director, Denis Donkervoort, who studied marketing and management at Florida’s Northwood University in 2008

mechanical improvements include a stiffer suspension with adjustable anti-roll bars at each corner and three-way adjustable shock absorbers. Significant aerodynamic revisions, including a redesigned nose and a new wheel design, lead to 176 pounds (80 kilograms) of additional downforce at the rear axle and 110 lbs (50 kg) of front downforce. The total curb weight of the car is below 1,542 lbs (700 kilograms) thanks to the extensive use of carbon-fiber, as well as a new and lighter battery and lighter carbon-fiber seats

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/donkervoort-s-insane-hot-rods-are-finally-coming-to-the-us/ar-AAZCvAS

https://www.motor1.com/news/378210/donkervoort-d8-gt-jd70-unveiled/

https://www.autoblog.com/2022/07/14/donkervoort-d8-gto-cars-coming-to-us/

https://www.donkervoort.com/en/cars/donkervoort-d8-gto-40/

The co-founder of Volvo went to Glasspar to get fiberglass bodies for his 1956 Volvo Sport, but only 71 were made, as they weren't good Volvos. Thanks Doug!

They started with PV444 components — engine in B14A tune, three-speed transmission, Spicer-built rear axle and its front and rear coil-spring suspensions. Parallel-wishbone suspension was used at the front while the live rear axle was guided by radius arms and a Panhard rod. The drum brakes were the same as those used by Studebaker, with 123 square inches of lining area, more than enough for such a light car.

The Sport made the auto-show rounds in 1956, starting again with Brussels in January. A red car with gray hardtop was shown in New York’s Coliseum from 28 April to 6 May. An Earls Court, London, appearance was scheduled in the autumn. To spur export sales, three of the first cars made were sent to Argentina and Venezuela, while others went to Portugal, Morocco, and Belgium. Contradicting the intent declared at the launch, most of the forty-four cars produced in 1956 were sold in Sweden, closer to home where their inevitable faults could be dealt with more easily.

With production continuing in the first quarter of 1957, nineteen Sports were made in March, suggesting an annual rate of better than two hundred cars. Slowly but surely, it seemed to be finding a market with virtually all the production now going to America. An important “sale” was the allocation of chassis No. 49 on 2 April to Gunnar Engellau. With the car’s number matching his age, trained engineer Engellau had been running Volvo’s aero-engine joint venture with Saab for thirteen years before being tapped to take over the vehicle company on Gabrielsson’s retirement.

Engellau was unimpressed by the Sport. “I drove it one weekend for 450 miles,” he told author Gladys Nicol, “and I thought the doors would fall off, and it was noisy and I didn’t like the wheels, and in any case we were losing huge sums on each car we made.” In one of his first management decisions, he said, “That car was one of the first things I destroyed. I killed that car!” Engellau directed that it be phased out as soon as possible. The last Sport left Gothenburg on 21 May, California-bound.

That concluded the Volvo Sport story, with sixty-seven production cars built in addition to the three prototypes and Glasspar’s concept car. “It was a failure, more or less,” reflected engineer Raymond Eknor, “and it was intended to be.” The Sport had been an experiment in fiberglass. By definition, not every experiment can succeed.

https://www.collierautomedia.com/plastic-fantastic-volvos-sport

Nissan had a couple of cool cars in their booth, the new yellow one is going into limited production, only 250 made I think Mike said, of twin turbo 400 hp and a 6 speed stick shift... these are going to make investors rich, but make drivers happy

 

2 seat sports cars

there are surpsingly around 50 two seat sports cars currently offered in 2021

Only 9 are under $100,000 

The Supra comes in under the Porsche Cayman, Audi TT, and Corvette C8 making it one of the most affordable GT cars on the market.

It's about 55k for the GR (Gazoo Racing) Supra with 382 hp inline 6 three liter 

https://www.toyota.com/gr-supra/

https://www.thegentlemanracer.com/2021/05/the-toyota-supra-does-it-all.html

the 1966 Fitch Phoenix, a prototype created from a Corvair, body built by Intermechanica of Italy

A Chevrolet Corvair-based two-seat sports car created by the late John Fitch, a famous racing driver and inventor.

The Corvair's rear-mounted, air-cooled 2.7L flat-six was tuned to produce 170 horsepower, while the weight is 2,150 lbs. The big bumps between windshield and front tires? Are for spare tires, since the car has two sizes of wheels, it was equipped with a spare for each

Fitch planned to build and sell 500 examples of the Phoenix, but before that could happen, President Johnson signed the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act into law, making it pretty much impossible for a small independent manufacturer to offer a car to the public.

It's debut was at the Abercrombie and Fitch (no relation)  Manhattan, N.Y., store.

 As a result, the prototype was the only one built, he returned the 100 deposits, and Fitch kept it for the rest of his life.

https://autoweek.com/article/car-life/escape-roads-1966-fitch-phoenix-corvair-based-phoenix-still-turns-heads-and-snaps
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/fitch-phoenix-1966.301616/

in 1949 the Reimann brothers built their own sports car, the Porscheli, from the remains of a Kübelwagen Type 82, since in East Germany there was no way to buy such luxury.

a Kübelwagen Type 82, or what was left of it

they did not have the tools, the workshop or the money to build a sports car body, so they went to ask for help from a body shop, the Arno Lindner Karrosserie and Fahrzeugbau

But there were no sheet metal supplies, so, innovating as they must, they recycled 15 Ford truck hoods, also abandoned after the war, to build the body. They welded several of the pieces together to create panels, which were subsequently molded on the frame.

https://www.clarin.com/autos/asombrosa-historia-porsche-alemania-comunista_0_BkxZpX_eX.html

I just got a great note from Jordan!

"Very cool to read about the story of my grandfathers car. http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/06/1955-victress-it-sounded-familiar-so-i.html

I wanted to share some further insight to ol' Number 7. This was My great grandfather George Muench's car. Max Day was actually an insurance provider in small town Pueblo Colorado who the car was originally built for and owned by.

My grandfather was his mechanic and the driver was actually a fearless man named Dan (danny) Morgan. Noting the qualifying times set on friday, Morgan was an unbelieveable 42 seconds ahead of AK Miller who's powerful and light corvette was a handful on the loose dirt of the test climb section. Had the gear selector managed to stay intact on the day of the race, Morgan would have easily made the triumphant victory a sealed deal.

After the 1959 race season, my grandfather purchased the car from Day and repainted it and removed most of the race specific tuning features. Wrapped pipes were traded for chrome and the slightly pinkish red was swapped for a rich and vibrant candy apple. Many trips to and from pueblo colorado were made up to my grandparents cabin by twin lakes.

None the less, it was amazing car that was refurbished and now maintained by a true collector. I sure do miss the sound of the triple carbed, straight piped MONSTER grumbling through the mountains of colorado though! "

Man, that's cool to hear from him about this car!

1959 Elkart Lake, SCCA National Road America, paddock, William Mitchell with the Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray SS

https://www.facebook.com/InsideTheMotorsportPaddock/

Racing, sliding, spinning and wrecking at Riverside 1960

Increase the video speed to 1.5... they seem to have slowed down the entire video

the Velam Isetta that set 7 international class records

BMW wasn't the only company to license the Isetta from Iso of Italy – there were two others; Romi in Brazil and VELAM in France.

VELAM stood for “Véhiculer léger à Moteur”, translated light vehicle with motor. It was a dedicated company with genuine production lines set up by Michel Cromback in Anthony Lago’s old Talbot factory in Suresnes.

VELAM built a variety of models based both around the original, and it built one very sporty looking record car that was also registered and used on the road. In addition, there was an open Sports model that appears to have remained a one-off.

The record/ race car has at times been called the Isetta Spéciale, at others the Corse (Course), and even the Aero. In contrast, when it appeared in the 1957 French Automobile Annual, it was given no special name.

The aluminium body VELAM prepared for the record car was cigar shaped, described by some as a ‘mini Zeppelin’, and was painted French racing blue.

The record car used the standard base, meaning same wheelbase and tracks. Width is only a few millimetres less, but significantly the height is only 590mm to the top of the body – less than half.

This record class allowed both supercharging and standard atmospheric engines to compete under the one heading, but VELAM chose to keep things pretty standard; the only notable deviation was the use of a special doped fuel mix that increased power to 12bhp. For this a special carburettor was fitted and Solex provided an uprated fuel pump.

A designer by the name of Bianchi created the body shape which with headrest fitted lifted the height to 730mm. Longer or taller gear ratios were installed too to make full use of the more streamlined body shape and additional power. With 12bhp the standard VELAM bodied car would expect to be capable of 85kph max, but the best lap at Montlhéry resulted in 118.55kph, with many consistent laps at 117kph.

Wheels were fitted with Englebert tyres run at 2.6 to 2.8 bars instead of the standard 1.2 to 1.4 bar.

On 30th July 1957 Bianchi and Claude drove to 7 international class K records, with a further 11 taken between the 30th September and the 10th January 1957.

https://rarefrenchsportscars.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/velam-final.pdf
https://rarefrenchsportscars.wordpress.com/2016/01/04/velam/

1955 Victress... it sounded familiar, so I looked it up. and this was 2nd at the 1958 Pikes Peak behind Ak Miller in the Hot Rod Magazine Special in the sports car class

Built from a hodge podge of good parts, the Victress was a fiberglass body mounted on a Mercury chassis, powered by a Ford 312, with a four speed Jaguar trans and a early Ford truck rear end

Runner-up only because the shift knob popped off and Max Day, the driver, had to endure incredible pain when shifting through the gears, the metal lever cutting deep into his bleeding hand.

The fact that he still managed to reach Pikes Peak in second place, just 1.6 seconds behind Ak Miller in his Hot Rod Magazine Special gives ample testimony to the potency of this superior Victress.

http://canadianautonetwork.com/detail.php?TypeID=42&ListingID=106

http://www.californiaclassix.com/archive/55_Victress.html

Update, Feb 2017, I got a note from Jordan

"Very cool to read about the story of my grandfathers car.

I wanted to share some further insight to ol' Number 7. This was My great grandfather George Muench's car. Max Day was actually an insurance provider in small town Pueblo Colorado who the car was originally built for and owned by.

My grandfather was his mechanic and the driver was actually a fearless man named Dan (danny) Morgan. Noting the qualifying times set on friday, Morgan was an unbelieveable 42 seconds ahead of AK Miller who's powerful and light corvette was a handful on the loose dirt of the test climb section. Had the gear selector managed to stay intact on the day of the race, Morgan would have easily made the triumphant victory a sealed deal.

After the 1959 race season, my grandfather purchased the car from Day and repainted it and removed most of the race specific tuning features. Wrapped pipes were traded for chrome and the slightly pinkish red was swapped for a rich and vibrant candy apple. Many trips to and from pueblo colorado were made up to my grandparents cabin by twin lakes.

None the less, it was amazing car that was refurbished and now maintained by a true collector. I sure do miss the sound of the triple carbed, straight piped MONSTER grumbling through the mountains of colorado though! "

Man, that's cool to hear from him about this car!

A rare Fairlady Z 432 is coming to auction

Bought from Bingo Sports by a collector who now wants to reap the profit, this is a genuine performance 432 variant of the Nissan Fairlady Z.

What makes the 432 special that it shared the same DOHC 24-valve S20 engine found in the legendary Skyline GT-R. Reportedly producing 160 horsepower, the number 432 refers to 4 valves, 3 carburetors and 2 camshafts on the in-line 6-cylinder engine.

 Magnesium wheels were fitted as standard, and this car comes with the rare factory optional roll bar.

https://kenobrothers.proxibid.com/asp/LotDetail.asp?ahid=10447&aid=101086&lid=27219110&title=1972-Nissan-Fairlady-Z432

Just one of many interesting sports cars going to auction at the Keno Brothers ‘Rolling Sculpture’ Fine Automobile Auction event, taking place November 18-19, 2015 at Skylight Clarkson sq., in Soho, New York City