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The Generation 2 in NASCAR refers to the cars used between 1967 and 1980. The second generation of stock cars featured stock body with a modified frame, and modified chassis became part of the sport with entities such as Holman-Moody, Banjo Matthews, and Hutchenson-Pagan building chassis for teams.
In 2005 Howe became one of three approved chassis builders for the ARCA Truck Series. [4] Series veteran John Kasmierski received the first chassis to achieve two top five finishes during the season. [5] The following season Paul Hahn won the championship racing a Howe chassis with a Chevrolet Colorado body. [6]
Arena Racing uses stock cars half-scale of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series cars [3] at 9 feet (2.7 m) long, [1] and can reach speeds up to 50 miles per hour (80 km/h). They weigh about 740 lb (340 kg) and have 22-horsepower engines. [3] Events are scheduled in a heat style format, as opposed to NASCAR's format of one long race.
The company's vehicles have also finished first, second and third in both the 2018 Rattler 250 and 2018 World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing and earned a 1–2–3–4–5 sweep in the 2018 Winchester 400. In October 2020, Fury became the chassis designer and builder for the newly-formed Superstar Racing Experience series. [6]
In the beginning, teams received little support from the car companies themselves, but by the mid-1960s, teams began creating partnerships with American manufacturers to provide factory support. Chrysler, Ford and General Motors were the primary, if not only, competitors for much of NASCAR's history.
He won 14 races, finishing runner-up in his first full season in 1965 and third in 1967, but after four years of top-level racing he retired at the season's end to devote his energies to Hutcherson-Pagan Enterprises, a chassis-building business in Charlotte, North Carolina. His younger brother Ron also became a stock car racer.
Hamke is a well renowned chassis builder, racer, and crew chief. Although the car built was not a Hamke Chassis, Hamke accepted the opportunity to work with Stremme and the crew, and accepted the challenge based upon reference from Performance Technologies (engine builders) and the owner of LeftHander Chassis.
Ronald Lee Hornaday Jr. (born June 20, 1958) is an American former professional stock car racing driver and businessman. He currently owns Team Hornaday Development, a driver development program as well as Hornaday Race Cars a Dirt Modified chassis builder.