| Townsend Special -- 4
The car was rebodied in 1963. It
now resembled an especially robust Birdcage Maserati. The solidly
muscular, tightly-drawn design emphasized the car's immense power.
| Frank Townsend in the cockpit shows
the surprisingly small size of the Special. With its fuel-injected
Pontiac engine yielding 400+ horsepower it wasn't small in performance.
This photo shows the car returning from
an NHRA-sanctioned drag race. It turned 12.1 @ 118 mph in the quarter-mile. |
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Pete Voevodsky in the Mk.III (Or is
it the Mk.IV?) after a 1965 win at the team's hometown course at Tucson
airport. |
| Pete Voevodsky again, this time at Phoenix
International Raceway.
Compare 5-spoke front wheel to finned
front wheel in photo of car on trailer above. Does this mean that
the Special received a front disc brake conversion? |
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