This car was re-done by a guy I went through school with, Steve Panarites. He's been building street cars and race cars for decades. This won 1st place in class at Amelia Island recently. Who wouldn't want to be coached on how to run this, and then being turned-loose for awhile?
Read the car's history, they don't come much-more significant than this. It has what's referred to as, 'provenance.'
This car was built by future Indy car legends Clint Brawner and Jim McGee in 1965 for a young driver to use at his Brickyard debut. That driver was Mario Andretti. Andretti not only passed his rookie test in this car he also finished third in that year's event. Later the same year, he won his first Indy car race in the Hawk, on the road course at IRP and went on to win the 1965 USAC Championship. The following year, the Dean Van Lines, Andretti, Brawner & McGee team followed up winning the pole position for the Indy 500, seven race wins and their second USAC Championship. The 1967 season brought another Indy pole and seven more wins, but a second in the points battle to AJ Foyt. This is the car that propelled Mario Andretti into the motorsports limelight. It was restored by Jim McGee and Steve Panarites. It retains 80-percent of the original chassis, body and driveline including a 1965 four-cam Ford race engine built by Joe Boghosian.
http://www.conceptcarz.com/z26053/Brawner-McGee-Hawk.aspx
Read the car's history, they don't come much-more significant than this. It has what's referred to as, 'provenance.'
This car was built by future Indy car legends Clint Brawner and Jim McGee in 1965 for a young driver to use at his Brickyard debut. That driver was Mario Andretti. Andretti not only passed his rookie test in this car he also finished third in that year's event. Later the same year, he won his first Indy car race in the Hawk, on the road course at IRP and went on to win the 1965 USAC Championship. The following year, the Dean Van Lines, Andretti, Brawner & McGee team followed up winning the pole position for the Indy 500, seven race wins and their second USAC Championship. The 1967 season brought another Indy pole and seven more wins, but a second in the points battle to AJ Foyt. This is the car that propelled Mario Andretti into the motorsports limelight. It was restored by Jim McGee and Steve Panarites. It retains 80-percent of the original chassis, body and driveline including a 1965 four-cam Ford race engine built by Joe Boghosian.
http://www.conceptcarz.com/z26053/Brawner-McGee-Hawk.aspx
