rear-engine supers


in no particular order...
(images are numbered so you can more easily send me additional info about that car)

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Tom Sneva 4wd. 1971
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1976 Denis Litchy in the old Todd Gibson rear engine car
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Jim Howard's #38 can be seen here mixing it up during the '68 season at Oswego.
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Jim Howard's #38
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1970 version of the Doug Duncan 07 and driver Johnny Spencer. Were the mirrors legal??
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Dick Berggren at Star
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Geoff Bodine
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Geoff Bodine
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Warren Coniam in Bill Hites last re creation
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John McClaren, not sure what year. See image #21 for more...
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Graves Hite
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Graves Hite
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Graves Hite1976 Denis Litchy in the old Todd Gibson rear engine car (bigger image)
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what remains of the Duncan 07
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resurrected Hite car
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Dick Berggren at Star
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Freddy Graves Hite 4wd
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need info
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Cloce sidecuda
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Chet Fillip Hite, 1979 [25 KB]
See more about this car on this archived page, from coloradoracingmemories.com (a website that has gone down)
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John Maclaren Hite car
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John Spencer and his Duncan ride, 1969
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Warren Schoeberlien's #0 built with Kevin Reep. Might be Kemp Dates shaking it down...
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Chet Fillip Hite, 1979
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Todd Gibson
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I believe this is Jack Laird
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Gene Lee gibson was very fast with this rebuilt Hite car in 2004
Here is a VERY interesting page concerning this restoration.
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Joe Magari 1965
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team Sneva 4 wheel steer. 1989
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This rear engine super is a Lola T-142 Formula 5000 car that was converted to a super. The car was based out of Windsor Ontario. As I recall in 1970 the car was driven by Serge Tesselon (sp?) from Windsor and in 1971 by Barry Brush from Amherstburg, Ontario, near Windsor
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In those years it was a regular at Delaware Speedway near London and never terribly successful. At the time they "claimed" over the PA that the Lola factory was closely following the effort and if successful they were going to look at producing supers, as mentioned the car was never successful and we never saw the Lola factory looking at supermodifieds.
Yours in racing, Pete turford
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Butch Harris
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Gary Albritain at Winchester
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Ed Cloce sidecuda, driver Guy Chartrand
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Ellis Palasini
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Dick Berggren at Star
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Tom Sneva in 1970 in his Fathers all wheel drive rear engine # 64
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Spencer's Duncan car in 1969
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In 1972, Duncan again rebuilt the 07 and changed the color scheme to gold and white. They had a pretty good year with the car and finished 4th in the classic
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Steve Newman at Star in 1976
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Steve Newman, 1973
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Todd Gibson
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Todd Gibson [82 KB]
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The Pine in '79. Warren Coniam was so fast in that years Classic with this car that rear engine designs were then banned
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Mike "Kapper" Kapuscinski started the construction of a rear engine car during the off-season that they were banned. never hit the track, and he cut it up
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Fred Graves, 1974
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Graves Hite '76 [50 KB]
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Gary Albritain battles Bob Stelter
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Nolan Swift built a rear engined car in 1968. The swing axle, Ford powered machine did not do very well, however and Swift went back to his old car for the classic
This is a shot of the car under construction.
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Jack Laird and the Ernie June #65
This car is said to have set fast time in a special sprints vs supers event at Trenton in 1967. Neil Tooley may have been at the wheel...
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John Davis
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A pic of the double decker trailer hauling Art Bouliannes and Ed Crombies supers from British Columbia Canada. Picture at the 1974 Classic from the 1975 Eagle Classic Yearbook
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John McClaren [55 KB]
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Wally Pankratz
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Rick Ott
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Spencer 1972 (again!)
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Armond Holley
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Gene Lee Gibson was at the wheel of a "vintage" Hite built machine in 2005 for a one-off "run what ya brung" show at Oswego
Read and see much more about this car!
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Norm Ellefson, circa 1971, in a Jim Tipke rear-engined supermodified. Norm orginally raced out of Alberta, Canada, then moved to Spokane, WA, and drove Tipke cars. Norm won the CAMRA title in 1966, 1967, and 1969. Went to Minnesota for the state fair race there and won with a Tipke roadster in 1969 and might've done the same with the rear-engined car but...well, there is a conspiracy theory there

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Ricky Ott

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1978

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I saw this quote on the net..."Ed Bellinger Sr. showed up for the 1963 International Classic with an innovative race car that turned out to be the first rear-engine supermodified car ever to compete at Oswego"... does anyone have any info on this car? ...well, see below!



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