Chaparrel Trans Am Race Model Racer X Car Kit.

Monogram Revell Chaparrel Trans Am Racing Speed Racer X Plastic Model Car Kit

Chaparrel Trans Am Car Model Race Car

Chaparrel Model Kit

An AMT Trans-Am series Chaparrel model kit.

I built this, because when I saw it, to me, it resembles the Racer X (from Speed Racer) Shooting Star race car. (which is not available in model form).

So with some spare decals, I made the car a Number 9. I may have changed the wheels as well.

It's not a bad kit, though simplified. There is no engine, I think this kit was originally made for slot car use.

The car is painted with Testors Gloss Yellow.

Speed Racer and Racer X battle it out !

Trans-Am: The Pony Car Wars 1966-1972 - This photographic retrospective follows the Trans-Am series from its inception until the end of the 1971 season, when significant rule changes forced the withdrawal of North American manufacturer teams. The period signified the golden age of the pony muscle car.
Vintage American Road Racing Cars, 1950-1970 - “It’s exceedingly difficult for me to understand how a book so wonderfully comprehensive can be so very entertaining. How could such a book crammed with hard facts and cold figures and exact measurements be such a magic-carpet ride back to the halcyon days of American road racing? I will just answer my own question if you don’t mind. ‘Let Harold Pace and Mark Brinker loose to research and write Vintage American Road Racing Cars 1950-1970 and you have a real masterwork.’SAH Journal – for the Society of Automotive Historians, October/November 2005”.
Penske Racing Team: 40 Years of Excellence - From its modest beginnings behind a Philadelphia-area watchmaker's shop some 40 years ago, the Penske Racing Team, more than any other organization, has influenced the development, growth and direction of auto racing in the United States as both a sport and a business. Led by former race driver turned "Fortune 500" business mogul Roger Penske, this team has won more than 250 major auto races around the world, captured 19 national championships (including 12 Indy-Car titles), and have enjoyed success in all forms of racing—Indy-Cars, sports cars, Formula-1, endurance racing and NASCAR. Penske Racing Team...40 Years of Excellence documents the fascinating history of this unique organization, focusing on the talented drivers and innovative engineering that have been responsible for the team's spectacular and enduring success. It also highlights the key events that have defined American motorsports during this timeframe; including the rise and fall of U.S. sports car racing in the 1960s and 1970s; the politics of the USAC-CART split in the late 1970s; the CART-IRL battle that unfolded 20 years later; and the phenomenal transformation of NASCAR from its moonshine roots into the mainstream commercial phenomenon that it is today.

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