To keep a reign on the excess of the racing divisions a seemingly obvious rule came to be. The racing divisions want to squeeze every ounce of power, grip, and aerodynamics that they can out of their cars and comfort is of no concern. Automakers need to make a car that people can afford and that are usable on the road. Although, racing and production cars have different priorities.
The idea behind production-based racing is "Race on Sunday, Sell on Monday." The cars you see on the track should have a direct connection to the cars on the street. We've updated this list to include even more great examples of barely-street-legal race cars. While some manufacturers create high-performance versions of already legal vehicles, some make vehicles that are race cars in production car shells. Updated April 2022: Street-legal race cars are the pride and joy of anyone lucky enough to be able to afford them. There are purpose-built racers like open-wheel formula cars from F1 and Indy, silhouette race cars that are essentially the same underneath, but skinned as cars they're meant to race, and then there are production-based race cars. One labeled Cheetah on the base could be worth in the neighborhood of $10,000, according to Zarnock.There are essentially three kinds of race cars.
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Cheetah and Python examples made there have smaller front wheels, blue-tinted windows and greater detail on the base and in the interior.
and Hong Kong, while the Cheetahs were produced just in Hong Kong. Hot Wheels manufactured Pythons in both the U.S. One of the first 16 Hot Wheels cars ever produced, it mimicked a custom “ Dream Rod” designed and built in 1963 by Bill Cushenberry for Car Craft magazine that creatively Frankenstein’d used parts from a ’60 Pontiac, ’53 Studebaker and a ’61 Corvair, among others.Ī handful of early versions of the toy, mostly red, were produced with the Cheetah name stamped on the base-until it was discovered that General Motors engineer-designer Bill Thomas had claimed that name for his “Cobra Killer” race car. The so-called “Cheetah” Base Python also earns its place in the pantheon of rare, high-value Hot Wheels because of a naming snafu. (Credit: Mattel Inc.) 1968 ‘Cheetah’ Base Python (Hong Kong) With very few of these cars around today, Zarnock values them at upward of $4,000, loose (not in the blister pack). According to Hot Wheels collector, historian and appraiser Mike Zarnock, they were also available through a cereal mail-in and by sending in Proof-of-Purchase points from the backs of U.K.
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Shaver was a driver on the first Hot Wheels-sponsored drag-racing team in the U.K., and the specialty-packaged Ed Shaver AMX cars (which included a sheet of decals matching those on his dragster) were distributed at race events. But in terms of rarity, the most valuable by far is the slightly later blue “Ed Shaver” version. For the sporty 1969 die-cast Hot Wheels version, most (like the one above) trade for hundreds of dollars, with hard-to-find colors like salmon and antifreeze fetching on the higher end. The real AMX street car was a short-lived two-seater produced by AMC that, like most muscle cars, stuffed a high-powered engine into a midsize frame. (Credit: Mattel Inc.) 1970 Ed Shaver Custom AMX
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