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John Finger’s Private Car Collection: Former IMSA Racer’s Vintage NASCAR Stash

What happens here

The tour continues into another section of the garage, filled with various racing engines on stands. John points out a Chevrolet engine from a World Sports Car, which was built by Mazdaville and is made of aluminum. He also mentions various Pro Cup cars, including a Challenger and a new Hooters Pro Cup car built for USRA. He jokes about having to put mufflers on his race car for a race in Savannah due to noise complaints from a neighboring housing development.

Goal: Highlight specific engines and race cars in the collection

Tools and materials

  • Chevrolet Engine Chevrolet — Powering a World Sports Car, built by Mazdaville
  • Hooters Pro Cup Car Hooters — A brand new, asphalt round track car
  • Pro Cup Car — A fully built race car, currently for sale

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more. That's a That's actually the Gatorade car behind it. That's the first car miles to ever rent at uh Daytona. And I bought it to get the engine to put in my hill climb car. This engine is out of the uh world sports car that's actually built by Manderville. And it's actually an aluminum engine and the displacement could only be 302. So, it's a SB2 with only 302 inches. Where are you going to put it in? It's stand. Oh, all these just to crank up. I'm I'm going to have an orchestra and figure out different notes. You don't see too many of these Challenger. No, it's a lot of bodied cars anymore. I like them, but uh I haven't really tried to sell it. I'm going to I keep forgetting it's there. been sitting there two years and I'm working on these other ones. But we got it cuz it had two seats put in properly and we for the school I helped the uh Chandler school uh we sold rides at one of their auctions and I took people to ride in a real race car and they was pretty thrilling. The other half the story is we took to Savannah which I'd been going there since 1964 and I get down there and they said you can't run this car here. here. It makes too much noise. I said, "What do you mean?" "Oh, there's a housing development over here in that." And the lady sits out there with the audiometer. If you go too loud, she calls the police. Oh, the resident Karen put mufflers on it. Went back the next year and I was asking some of the guys if they any of them were running traction control in the HR and the guy looks at me just like, "What do you think?" So, he had one of those. I might try it. points and plugs about my extent of electronics. What is this one? This is a real nice car now and it's got a store like they all do. The same guy I got it from in the Harbit car from had bought a new Avi Trans Am car which are quite expensive. But he always want a spare car to match his other car. So he bought this and I told him, "Miss says, "Well, this is the suspension off of it behind you." He said, "That's not going to work. You need to just get rid of it or let me fix it." He He says, "I can cut the front off and the back off, put all my stuff on there, and it'll be as good as your other car for a mere $75,000."

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