Thousands of horses scrabble for grip away from the startline in the Just Cars Historic Touring Car grid. Behind the snarling, rubber-frying muscle cars there’s an eclectic mix of period cars as different from each other today as they were in the ’50s, ’60s and early ’70s. While many are familiar, some are… well, a bit odd.
Variety made touring car racing so good then, just as it does today. Eights in a V, sixes in a V or straight fours with camshafts in the block, single or doubled-up overhead, in-line, transverse or horizontally opposed. Front or rear drive, three or four-speed manuals, on the floor, on the tree or at the push of a button. All drum brakes, all discs or disc/drum.
From Australia, the US, UK, Italy, Germany,…
