“Arguably the worlds’ fastest Diablo” is how Al Burtoni describes his Jota Americana. It has a completely redesigned and machined engine that carries his signature on the valve covers. In fact, this particular vehicle has been extensively modified by Burtoni to showcase the car’s Diablo’s potential. It has numerous modifications and was used as a rolling test bed for all of his products.

Following the Baldwin-Payne Special, Willis Baldwin built this race car for use in SCCA's modified classes on the short tracks of America. It competed from 1949 to 1959 and made it on the cover of Road & Track in May 1950.

In a Tucson garage, Frank Townsend and friends built custom racecars to challenge the much more expensive European alternatives in SCCA racing. Townsend typically used a mosaic of American running gear and many featured distinct fiberglass bodies like our feature car.

In the late 1900s, the automotive industry in America was really taking off. Several startup corporations, including Ford, Cadillac and the American Motor Company of Indianapolis were becoming major players in an industry which would become one of the largest.

After crashing his XK120 chassis 670191 in the Pebble Beach Road Races, Don Parkingson kept the remains and transformed them into this unique special.

After the first Scarab proved itself to be a winning platform, additional cars were made with some modifications including a right-hand drive conversion. These cars kept the same potent tubular space frame and small-block Chevy V8 from the first car.

John Staver, Ed Grierson and Bill Larson were responsible for the Echidna, a racecar named after an obscure Australian anteater. They combined their skills to create lightweight versions of the Corvette to go racing in the SCCA B-Modified and C-Modified class. The cars were raced by family and friends, and sometimes by the three themselves. Their initial goal was to build three cars for 1958 seaso...

Jim Seely saw the first post-war race at Palm Springs in California and decided to make their own car for the upcoming Pebble Beach event. Built out of Ted Cannon's machine shop in North Hollywood, this Mk. 1 was the first of five cars specially made for SCCA's modified class. It used a dated Dodge chassis from the 1930s together with bits and pieces from the shop.

Lance Reventlow's Scarab Mk. I was one of the first American Specials and also the first Scarab. It used some of the best west coast talent and inspired many other similar cars. The Mk. I used a small-block Chevy V8 in an untypical space frame chassis which made it very quick.

Built by owner and race driver John. C Reuter, this was one of the few pre-war American road racing specials. Reputably built with components of 19 other manufacturers, ‘Old Grey Mare’ is a great mix of different cars. It was raced with success from 1935 to 1940 and is best know for it's victories at ‘Climb the Clouds’

One of the first post-war American Specials was the Troutman-Barnes Special by Dick Troutman and Tom Barnes. It was their first racing design before they went on to create the legendary Scarabs for Lance Reventlow. The fabrication quality was very high as was the level of engineering used by Troutman and Barnes.

Of all the 8C 2300s, this singular chassis (2311229) has one of the most interesting histories. After being used in Europe, it was sent over the America in 1950s and eventually converted into a race car with various American engines. Fortunately, it has remained this way and is currently fitted with a Mercury V8.

One of the most interesting cars made in the sixites was this AMT Piranha. AMT was the same company that manufactured scale models, except they planned to offer the Piranha both as 1/24th scale kit and a full-size working car.

The Old Yeller story is one of passion, performance and determination. At the center of these cars was Max Balchowsky who took on the best in the business with his motoring equivalent of a mutt. From their outward appearance, cars like Old Yeller II appeared crude, but all of the Yellers were well engineered and usually competed for overall victory with much more expensive competition.

After producing Fiberglass bodies for a number of different chassis, Bill Devin eventually made his own turn-key cars based on the Chevrolet small-block V8. Together with Irish manufacturer's Malcom MacGregor and Noel Hills, the frames were completed as a rolling chassis in Ireland and then shipped to El Monte, California to be finished.

After undergoing a number of changes, this ex-Formula 2 car was rebuilt in Tacoma, Washington into the Stovebolt Special. Tom Carsten was responsible for the transformation and spared no expense to make sure his car was the best it could be.

Convinced by what Allard and other European manufacturers were doing, Chuck Tatum decided to built his own car for SCCA racing.

Built as one of the the many Chuck Manning kit cars, this Schaghiticoke Special was build by Wally Champan in 1955. Using Manning's capable chassis layout, he fitted a Mercury flat-head engine with a Ford 3-speed transmission.