{"id":497406,"date":"2018-03-01T01:39:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T01:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=55640"},"modified":"2024-06-04T15:41:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T15:41:25","slug":"1953-leson-simca-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1953-leson-simca-special\/","title":{"rendered":"1953 Leson Simca Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p>Progress is not always a good thing. In the early 1950s, if you wanted to go racing in America you could build yourself a car or have one professionally constructed to your exact specifications. Sure, that meant some homebuilt, crude and dangerous machines were flying around racing circuits, but it also meant that some one-of-a-kind \u201cAmerican Special\u201d masterpieces were born.<\/p>\n<p>Seymour \u201cChick\u201d Leson was a serious sports car guy. In the 1950s, he raced an OSCA MT4, a Mercedes-Benz 300SL, a Porsche 550, an AC, some Alfas, and even a Maserati 150S. And he was apparently very good. In April of \u201954, he drove an OSCA MT4 1350 to victory at Pebble Beach, beating John von Neumann\u2019s Porsche 550, Cy Yedor\u2019s MG TC Special, Ken Miles\u2019 R-1, and Pete Lovely\u2019s Volkswagen-Porsche. But before all that, he raced a very special American Special, which was conjured up based on what Leson believed a racing machine should be.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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In the 1950s, he raced an OSCA MT4, a Mercedes-Benz 300SL, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":591923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17177,5845],"tags":[17178,1875,19009],"class_list":["post-497406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chassis-histories","category-simca","tag-chassis-histories","tag-simca","tag-simca-model-guides-all"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>1953 Leson Simca Special<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"1953 Leson Simca Special\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1953-leson-simca-special\/\" \/>\n<meta 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