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USAC Championship Trail chassis makers

Started by bartez1000 , Jul 27 2013 20:51

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#1 bartez1000

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Posted 27 July 2013 - 20:51

I am intrested in chassis builders of 60s and 70s Indycars.
History of F1 teams is well documented and avalible, but i can find hardly any about American open wheel racing. There are so many strange names like Gerhardt, Shrike or Huffaker when i look to data about Indy 500 chassis makers. Information about Lotus, Brabham or Lola indycars is avalible, but what about other? What technologies were used there, compared to Grand Prix racing? Are there some books, magazines or websited devoted to this topic?

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#2 Allen Brown

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Posted 27 July 2013 - 21:26

May I suggest www.oldracingcars.com?

Edited by Allen Brown, 27 July 2013 - 21:27.

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#3 carl s

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Posted 27 July 2013 - 22:22

May I suggest www.oldracingcars.com?

And from within the present confines:
http://forums.autosp...w...=59731&st=0

Lots of stuff via the NF 'search' box here

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#4 T54

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Posted 27 July 2013 - 22:27

And add Yonezawa and Tomiyama to the period manufacturers listing... :lol:

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#5 carl s

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Posted 28 July 2013 - 04:24

And add Yonezawa and Tomiyama to the period manufacturers listing...

Philippe, I knew you couldn't resist. :stoned:

Hope you don't mind my sharing a link to some of your wonderfull collections.
http://www.tsrfcars....g_cars_foyt.htm

Speaking of chassis makers; hope you will be bringing chassis 72-29 to our HCICA grand finale with The Indycar Series at Auto Club Speedway in October.

Carl Schulz
Indio, CA
http://s1011.photobu...298112100320803

Edited by carl s, 28 July 2013 - 04:46.

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#6 T54

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Posted 28 July 2013 - 14:02

Carl,
We are doing everything we can to get the car running and in time for the event. :cool:

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#7 RA Historian

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Posted 30 July 2013 - 12:04

There are so many strange names like Gerhardt, Shrike or Huffaker

To be technical, or a purist, or an anorak, there really was never a chassis known as a "Huffaker". Joe Huffaker was in the employ of Kjell Qvale's British Motor Cars in San Francisco when he designed and/or built a series of cars for Qvale, starting with Formula Juniors and going through various sports racers commonly known as Genies. But all these cars were formally known as "BMC". The early juniors were BMC Mk I, Mk II, Mk III. The V-8 engined sports racers were BMC Genie Mk VIII and Mk X. The 1964 Indy cars were BMC Mk IXs. The cars never carried any formal designation as "Huffaker". I know, picky, picky...