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And another great video!

The M3 GTR and M3 GT2 would be good cars to cover.

That was a cool video. I would be interested in a future video about the Chip Ganassi Riley Ford Daytona Prototypes and the Ford GT GTE.

I love your vids man, its refreshing to hear sports car history from a fellow American for once, keep it up bro!

I love the WHELEN livery. It always reminds me of the sinister company in the ‘Alien’ movie franchise (I know it’s not spelled the same, but it reminds me, nevertheless. The font helps).

I always thought these cars looked strange. I can imagine for a purist that the shift to the LMP2-esque DPIs was even stranger.

2425 lbs and still had AC... Amazing.

Bristol had amazing success in Lemans 1953 and 1954 with this BMW engine design. To me one of most interesting pre-war cars. Those Alfas though.... I keep on discovering cooler and cooler Alfas. Thanks to you, this time.

I believe Moffatts Monza has made its way back to the states?.

The longer the better!

with all the scoops, body work, and fairings - It looks bad ass too!

I had a 1977 Oldsmobile variant with a 305 cu in big transmission, heavy duty cooling system, rpo44 optional suspension. It was a super sleeper. Sold it at 321K miles. So aerodynamic you could drive it at 65 mph with the drivers window down and easily rest my arm on window sill. Fast steering with steering box off a camero / trans am. One of my favorite rides. The guy I sold it to got a speeding ticket first day he had it.

Althoough German clearly isn't your native language, I really appreciate you're trying your best! 👍🏼

The coupe in the game footage right at the beginning looks marvelous

I think it should be mentioned that the vast majority of post-war 328 engines were built by the automotive division of Bristol Aeroplane Company who acquired the rights to the engine as well as the 326 chassis as war reparations, they even enlisted the services of Fritz Fiedler to keep developing the engine. As such most of these cars were known as [insert manufacturer here] -Bristols. The engine was kept in production until 1961 when Bristol switched to Mopar V8s, but amazingly they kept that 326 chassis from the 1930s in production until they went bankrupt in 2011

I remember reading about this and wow, I love it, this car means a lot for BMW and cars in general. Always featured in documentaries about the Bavarian marque

Speak up I can,t hear you

How about a video about Carl Schafer's Camaro

I was an avid IMSA fan back in the day when these DeKon Monzas came out. They served a purpose of encouraging greater participation of mid pack teams struggling to keep up with the Porsche customer cars that wealthy racers could buy their way into the front of the grid. The Monzas were fiberglass covered 7/8 scale short track NASCAR stock cars that could be aquired at a more reasonable price and wrenched on by competent stock car mechanics. The introduction doubled the size of the competitive end of the grid. Everybody knew they got an intentional advantage of having a big roaring 6 Liter V8 in a good handling small stock car. With all the big name drivers hired to codrive, the races were like mini IROC events, you didn't know who would win. The Porsches had their cars on one side of the paddock and the Chevys were on the other side, each shared parts and experience with their side. I miss the sound of a pack of Porsches tearing by followed by the roar of the V8 Monza pack blasting by on the straights. It was the best years of IMSA up to that point and it led to the epic GT era of the 935s and GTPs.

Id want a 327 in one.

Corrections & Clarifications: 1) it was a Corvair, not a Corsair, that first featured the Monza badge 2) yeah the MGB is a 1.8l engine, not a 2.0. No idea how I screwed that up, I've rebuilt one of the darn things.

There is a 1981 Porsche 924 Carrera GT for sale in Australia right now for some absurd price for a rare RHD model. I'd rather have that one than a 928, but probably not at that price.

It wasn't build quality on my Monza but badly engineered brakes, and that wasn't the unions fault. Did you ever work in a union? A lot of it comes from management and those people supporting right to work laws that ruin reputations on purpose, like billy having his dad in management making him not wanting to work like everyone else. The last thing a worker wants is the company to go under, so quit your union hating you slave cause you wanted to work for FREE, and that's not freedom. Good luck feeding yourself with a regular job that doesn't pay squat.

My sister owned a used ‘76 Monza 4 spd with a fire breathing 265 er 262 I see v8!?

Bill Maher is into cars?

1975 Monzas were also available with a 262 cubic inch version of the small block V8. That variant was also available in Novas that year. 3.67 inch bore; 3.1 inch stroke. Not very powerful, but the engine mounts and interfaces were adequate accommodation for any other SBC.

Enjoyed this trip down memory lane… for the sake of accuracy, the Monza name was used on some versions of the Corvair, not the Corsair.

Stock MGBs had a 1798cc engine.

Good video Thanks for posting. I was there in the late 1970’s to watch Holbert’s Monza at Sears Point start from last position and rocket to a win. What a car and what a driver. RIP Al you are missed. If I recall correctly I believe he passed 11 cars on lap 1. Incredible.

The Chev Monzas really had an impact on sedan type racing, including speedway versions, both dirt track and asphalt. The DeKon Monza of Allan Moffat's is now owned, and raced by Zak Brown, CEO of McLaren F1 .

The road-going Monza would have been legendary had anyone other than General Motors built it. I owned two '77 Monzas, a 262-powered 4-speed car (with a nasty 406 swapped in), and the worst Monza sin of them all, the Monza Mirage. Even though it had a 305 under the hood, it was quite possibly the slowest car I ever owned, with 2.27 gears and a TH350, coupled with typical terrible 1970's build quality. I unloaded that Mirage with only 78K miles on it and never looked back at Monza ever again. The Monza body was a popular funny car body during the 1970's, my dad owned one of them, formerly a Bob Pickett Starfire but was repainted as a Monza in 1979.

Red Dawson was a NZ racing legend and not a Aussie as mentioned in the video. Sadly Red had a terrible accident at Manfield (now Circuit Chris Amon) that ended his racing career. The car was repaired by Jim Stone and then sold to John Briggs in Australia.

It rather is

The REVS institute is in Naples not Ft. Myers. I lived in Ft. Myers and visited the Collier museum/REVS institute on several occasions.

Another great video, it’s a pleasure listening to you every single time! Keep up the great work :)

Monza name first used for Corvair, not Corsair.

Saw a red dekon monza #20 race for years at the Monterey historics at laguna seca. Was the only car that could keep Bruce Canepa’s 935 honest. Fast car very well driven… Keep up the fine work ol boy

Thanks for covering the Monza. Do you think you might cover a car that followed it, the Beretta? I read in Bob Marley’s bio that he owned a BMW, in no small part because of the initials: ‘Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Lol!

Great Video. Walter C would have loved the comparisson to Elon. BTW "Baker Trucks" became Baker Material Handling and was purchased by Otis, United Tech, and finally German company Linde Corp closing shop in 1989. His wife's side of the family equally as interesting as the manufacturer of White Sewing Machine, White Motor Cars, and White Freightliner.

Great video and not "too long".

10:05: The "female" Inaltera with Lombardi and Beckers finished a very credible 11th also. They lost time apparently when an electrical short circuit left the car stranded at Mulsanne corner for some time around the 12th hour.

6:57: Factually incorrect. Matra did not "go bankrupt". The company decided to exit motorsport in December 1974 as they had achieved its goal set 10 years before of winning a Formula 1 world championship, a World Championship of Makes title and the 24 Hours Of LeMans ( 3 straight years). The parent company was also involved in the aerospace and defense industries. Sometime after 1974, the parent company's management decided to exit the road car business altogether to focus on its other businesses and sold it to Chrysler Europe, which apparently did go bankrupt in the late 1970s and was bought by the parent company of Peugeot.

Pardon me saying this, old chap, but by this time Cosworth were now free from any Ford (UK or USA) finance or influence. Just a point! Still really liking your output. 😂

that jump scare at 17:10 was wild

Rondeau was the only and true "Mr. Le Mans". Reportedly, somewhat of a prima donna, yet no one will ever do what he accomplished.

I'm not surprised Dick Barbour " dragged down" the cumulative qualifying time for his car. I was always surprised he could get in the cars. Great man that he was, larger than life is probably the kindest way to describe both his personality and his bulk.

I have a 924 with a Lexus 4 litre v8.

Actually I originally became aware of your videos because of the Assetto excerpts, as I am a passionate Asetto driver myself. So I would not mind a dedicated AC video ;)

My aunt has a 1971 MG B that she let's me drive any time, they're great!