SOMETHING THEY DID (THE MALLOCK U2 OR SID III)
As they were good enough to be owned and raced by former heads of design and engineering at Formula 1 (F1) teams Williams, Ferrari, March, Wolf, and Tyrrell, the U2s deserve their now-legendary status.
Sport Cars category racing is often considered a poor cousin of motor sport in general here. This wasn’t always the case though. A few decades ago, the Sports Car grids were full of weird, wild, and very interesting cars.
Gary Pederson and his Gemco Oldsmobile — tyres as wide as Texas and horsepower for Africa — shook the ground like a small earthquake, as did the Australian Elfin of Graham Harvey, all 6.5 litres of it. Then there was the peculiar but spectacular, locally made, chain-driven Stanton Corvette. Andy Buchanan had a real Ferrari 250 LM, an Italian V12 against all that American V8 muscle. Last heard of, that car was in the personal collection of Calvin Klein in New York and is now reputedly worth
