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| 1959 Echidna Chassis #2 Class “CM” Sports Racer | |
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Sold for $162,800 by Russo & Steele -
Scottsdale, 2015 The Echidnas basic concept called for lightness and outstanding performance with built-in durability, endurance, and reliability to match. Accordingly, Echidna chassis and mechanical components were based on relatively humble Chevrolet passenger-car parts, combined and massaged with practical yet sophisticated engineering principles and masterful fabrication clearly in evidence throughout. Beginning with a heavily reworked and shortened 1956-57 Chevy sedan frame mounting the basic Chevrolet ball-joint, double-A-arm suspension layout up front, Echidnas featured race-prepped Chevy small-block power, a Borg-Warner T-10 four-speed transmission and initially, upgraded Chevy Corvette cerametallic drum brakes all around. The stout tripod-style roll bar added further chassis stiffness. Sleek Bill Devin bodywork, finished in light blue paint, cloaked the wizardry contained underneath. Built in 1959 and campaigned in SCCA C-Modified, Echidna# 2 of the three cars built is powered by a hot small-block Chevy equipped with the legendary Rochester fuel-injection unit and backed by a T-10 four-speed gearbox. Most recently, this historic all-American sports racer ran at the 2013 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at the legendary Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca circuit. Accompanied by its HMSA logbook, this historic, giant-killing Echidna stands ready to continue its winning ways in the heat of competition as originally intended, marking an outstanding vintage racer worthy of the finest collections of legendary American sports racers. |
