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NASCAR Chevrolet Impala SS COT circa 2013

November 19th, 2012 by

NASCAR’s Car of Tomorrow (CoT) was engineered to challenge the skills of even the best stock car drivers in the world. For iRacers who climb behind the wheel of the Impala SS, the fun-to-drive factor is high, but it takes experience to get the most out of it, and talent to race it successfully in … Read the Rest »

NASCAR Xfinity Series Chevrolet Impala SS – Circa 2011

November 19th, 2012 by

Chevrolet raced the Impala SS nameplate in NASCAR’s two top series: Sprint Cup in Car of Tomorrow identity and what was then known as the Nationwide series in more traditional technical specification, essentially identical to the pre-Car of Tomorrow Sprint Cup cars. As raced in the Nationwide Series, the Impala SS had a lower greenhouse … Read the Rest »

NASCAR Truck Chevrolet Silverado – 2008

November 19th, 2012 by

Nothing on United States highways is more All-American than the pickup truck. And while pickups were originally designed to be work vehicles, their combination of utility and rugged sportiness have proved attractive to lots of people who never go near a construction site or carry anything heavier than a bag of groceries. Not surprisingly, racers embraced the pickup … Read the Rest »

SK Modified Car

November 19th, 2012 by

Sporting a roof but no fenders, a Modified Stock Car – “Modified” for short – is a unique oval-track race car. And while today’s Modified is built from the ground up as a tube-frame chassied racecar and has significantly different configurations for paved or dirt tracks, the breed traces its lineage back to the very … Read the Rest »

Legends Ford ’34 Coupe

October 18th, 2012 by

With its 1930s-era body style, the Legends Car looks like a 5/8 scale model of the home-built Modified stock cars that dominated NASCAR racing in the 1950s. But underneath the fiberglass coachwork lives a thoroughly modern, high-tech, fully-adjustable tube-frame race car. And if the home-built Modifieds represented the birth of NASCAR, the economical, factory-manufactured Legends Car has driven the … Read the Rest »

Street Stock – Panther

October 18th, 2012 by

When it comes to grass-roots racing, it doesn’t get any more “rooted” than Street Stocks. Although there are (nearly) as many different variations on Street Stock rules as there are quarter- and half-mile race tracks around America, the common thread is the use of an older American street car as the basis of the Street … Read the Rest »