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Joe knows the details of the following story better than I, no doubt...
Back in the day NASCAR/Daytona would let various other sanctioning bodies run the 24 Hour Rolex event, presumably so they didn't have to deal with it. Invariably they would either go broke on their own, or the major manufacturers would pull out, or they would become too big for their britches and decide they wanted way too big a piece of the gate-pie (a la CART).
Anyway, in the mid 90s or so this sequence of events occurred and Bill Jr & the boys formed the "WSC" (World Sports Car series) with generic rules in which one dropped in their engine of choice and went racing.
In fact in 1998 Giampiero Moretti (of famous MOMO sporty car steering wheel fame) managed to win the event in a Ferrari powered car, and it was a very popular win. Here is an article featuring pics of that car:
https://www.momo.com/en-us/momo-ferr...t-cars-2-game/
But that is not the point of this enduro-post.
Waay back in the day some street rodder types would stuff a US V8 in a home brewed chassis, hammer out a body, and go racing against Jags and Maseratis and whatnot.
One of the most famous was Max Balchowsky's "Old Yeller II" Buick powered ride:
https://www.oldyeller2.com/
In that same spirit, a re-purposed (racing) Olds Aurora or Cutlass was rebodied and turned into a WSC "prototype". It never enjoyed much success, but I did like watching it roll around at Daytona in the mid 90s.
And so, here is a ONE car effort that made it to the track, and made a minor note of it's own in the history books. I now (finally) present...
THE CANNIBAL!:
http://www.fantasyjunction.com/cars/...BAL%20IMSA-N/A
Back in the day NASCAR/Daytona would let various other sanctioning bodies run the 24 Hour Rolex event, presumably so they didn't have to deal with it. Invariably they would either go broke on their own, or the major manufacturers would pull out, or they would become too big for their britches and decide they wanted way too big a piece of the gate-pie (a la CART).
Anyway, in the mid 90s or so this sequence of events occurred and Bill Jr & the boys formed the "WSC" (World Sports Car series) with generic rules in which one dropped in their engine of choice and went racing.
In fact in 1998 Giampiero Moretti (of famous MOMO sporty car steering wheel fame) managed to win the event in a Ferrari powered car, and it was a very popular win. Here is an article featuring pics of that car:
https://www.momo.com/en-us/momo-ferr...t-cars-2-game/
But that is not the point of this enduro-post.
Waay back in the day some street rodder types would stuff a US V8 in a home brewed chassis, hammer out a body, and go racing against Jags and Maseratis and whatnot.
One of the most famous was Max Balchowsky's "Old Yeller II" Buick powered ride:
https://www.oldyeller2.com/
In that same spirit, a re-purposed (racing) Olds Aurora or Cutlass was rebodied and turned into a WSC "prototype". It never enjoyed much success, but I did like watching it roll around at Daytona in the mid 90s.
And so, here is a ONE car effort that made it to the track, and made a minor note of it's own in the history books. I now (finally) present...
THE CANNIBAL!:
http://www.fantasyjunction.com/cars/...BAL%20IMSA-N/A
but I love the Oscar Meyer commercial!
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