| Townsend
Special 4
The car was rebodied in
1963. It now resembled a "Birdcage Maserati on steroids". The
solidly muscular, tightly-drawn design emphasized the car's immense power.
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| 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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