one thing leads to another, a race car named for a town, that was named for a highway tollgate. True story

in 1946 Lou Welch’s Novi Governor Special. The front-drive one-ton race car was powered by two 4-cylinder Offys, with a common crankcase, also known as the Winfield V-8. Driver Ralph Hepburn made his fifteenth race, qualifying at 134.944 mph, shattering the previous record by nearly 4 mph. The car was named after Welch’s hometown of Novi, MI, which got its name because of its proximity to highway tollgate No VI.

found on http://www.taurtoisemotorsports.com/forties/Racin.html

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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

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

from http://us-muscle.tumblr.com/

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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

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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

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