Rear-Engine Supermodifieds

in no particular order...
(images are numbered so you can more easily send me additional info about that car)

click on thumbnail to open a larger image, click anywhere on image to close You can also navigate through the images with your keyboard arrow keys Tom Sneva 4 wheel drive. 1971 1 1976, Dennis Litchy in the former Todd Gibson rear engine car 2 Jim Howard's #38 can be seen here mixing it up during the '68 season at Oswego. 3 Jim Howard's #38 4 1970 version of the Doug Duncan 07 and driver Johnny Spencer. Were the mirrors legal?? 5 Dick Berggren at Star 6 Geoff Bodine 7 Geoff Bodine Recent photo of same car (2009 or '10) 8 Warren Coniam in Bill Hites last re creation 9 John McClaren, 1977. See image #21 for more... 10 Fred Graves Hite super 11 Fred Graves Hite super 12 John McClaren, Winchester 1977. from Bobby G 12a Roger Bible, Winchester 1977. from Bobby G 12b Butch Harris, Winchester 1977. from Bobby G 12c 1976, Dennis Litchy in the former Todd Gibson rear engine car (again) 13 what remains of the Duncan 07 14 resurrected Hite car 15 Dick Berggren at Star 16 Freddy Graves Hite 4wd 17 need more info 18 Cloce sidecuda 19 Chet Fillip Hite, 1979 See more about this car on this archived page, from coloradoracingmemories.com 20 John Maclaren Hite car 21 John Spencer and his Duncan ride, 1969 22 Warren Schoeberlien's #0 built with Kevin Reep. Might be Kemp Dates shaking it down 23 Chet Fillip Hite, 1979 24 Todd Gibson 25 I believe this is Jack Laird 26 Gene Lee gibson was very fast with this rebuilt Hite car in 2004 Here is a VERY interesting page concerning this restoration. 27 need more info 28 Joe Magari, 1965 29 team Sneva 4 wheel steer. 1989 30 This rear engine super is a Lola T-142 Formula 5000 car that was converted to a super. The car was based out of Windsor Ontario. As I recall in 1970 the car was driven by Serge Tesselon (sp?) from Windsor and in 1971 by Barry Brush from Amherstburg, Ontario, near Windsor 31 In those years it was a regular at Delaware Speedway near London and never terribly successful. At the time they "claimed" over the PA that the Lola factory was closely following the effort and if successful they were going to look at producing supers, as mentioned the car was never successful and we never saw the Lola factory looking at supermodifieds. Yours in racing, Pete turford 32 Butch Harris 33 Gary Albritain at Winchester 34 Ed Cloce sidecuda, driver Guy Chartrand 35 Ellis Palasini 36 Dick Berggren at Star 37 Tom Sneva in 1970 in his Fathers all wheel drive rear engine #64 38 John Spencer's Duncan car in 1969 39 In 1972, Duncan again rebuilt the 07 and changed the color scheme to gold and white. They had a pretty good year with the car and finished 4th in the classic 40 Steve Newman at Star in 1976 41 Steve Newman, 1973 Todd Gibson 43 Todd Gibson 44 The Pine in '79. Warren Coniam was so fast in that years Classic with this car that rear engine designs were then banned 45 Mike "Kapper" Kapuscinski started the construction of a rear engine car during the off-season that they were banned. never hit the track, and he cut it up 46 Fred Graves, 1974 47 Graves Hite '76 48 Gary Albritain battles Bob Stelter 49 50 Nolan Swift built a rear engined car in 1968. The swing axle, Ford powered machine did not do very well, however and Swift went back to his old car for the classic Here is a shot of the car under construction. 51 1965... Jack Laird in the Ernie June #65. This car is said to have set fast time in a special sprints vs supers event at Trenton in 1967. Neil Tooley may have been at the wheel... John Davis 52 A pic of the double decker trailer hauling Art Bouliannes and Ed Crombies supers from British Columbia Canada. Picture at the 1974 Classic from the 1975 Eagle Classic Yearbook 53 John McClaren 54 Wally Pankratz 55 Rick Ott 56 Spencer 1972 (again!) 57 Armond Holley 58 Gene Lee Gibson was at the wheel of a "vintage" Hite built machine in 2004 for a one-off "run what ya brung" show at Oswego Read and see much more about this car! 59 Norm Ellefson, circa 1971, in a Jim Tipke rear-engined supermodified. Norm orginally raced out of Alberta, Canada, then moved to Spokane, WA, and drove Tipke cars. Norm won the CAMRA title in 1966, 1967, and 1969. Went to Minnesota for the state fair race there and won with a Tipke roadster in 1969 and might've done the same with the rear-engined car but...well, there is a conspiracy theory there 60 need more info 61 need more info 62 Ricky Ott 63 1978 64 1969 65 1976 66

• an interesting rear engine supermodified page at retrorockets.org
• The lost rear-engined sprint cars  - a page by Chris Biordi: In the mid-1960's, a phenomenon known as the "rear-engined revolution" occured at the Indianapolis 500 in which the rear-engined monocoque formula car layout replaced the front-engined tube frame roadsters. By the early 70's, some rear-engined sprint cars were attempted...
• The Rise and Demise of the First Rear-engine Super in Northeast Ohio  - written by Duane De Puy. This is a must-read as Duane was a personal friend of Bill Port, Joe Martincic and Armand Holley. In 1964 he built the first RE super to run at Lorain County with Norm Smith driving. Chris Economaki In NSSN called it a "funny car" when we won with it.
• a page about Chet Fillip's rear engine supermodified from "Colorado racing memories"

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