Mystery car

All I can think is it might be the Jim Hall Chapparal since it has what appears to be a two stroke snowmobile motor visible and there was one of those to run the fans in the "sucker" car. It doesn't really look like the quality of his engineering though. Complete guess on my part.
 
Good guess Rick but no cigar. this car had opposing twin cyl big bore two stroke engines (boxer) behind the transaxle. ear shattering as memory serves me.
 
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Mac's IT Special. Four Rotax two-stroke motors - one on each wheel!

Interesting concept, but a total failure.

So, what did I win? ;)
 
Son of a B, what are you, an elephant. i'll send you orig jpg's after I get the slides transferred. The Yellow Macs-it car was designed and built by an an ex-Shelby American Engine builder named Jack Hoare. He was English. He put a two-stroke Rotex Motorcycle engine at each wheel. The car was driven by a Japanese driver named Hiroshi Matsusheeta (last name mispelled becaust it wouldnt let me post SH-TA). He never got it over 35MPH, some say 76MPH (I say the latter, sounded like bad clutch slip) and the car was withdrawn from the race and never seen again. It was a total failure.
here it is.

http://www.calclub.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2166&ppuser=205

http://www.calclub.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2165&ppuser=205

Here's another. Who put this car in the spectator area without hurting anyone?

http://www.calclub.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2167&size=big&cat=&ppuser=205

by the way, I am still looking for another cheap R1 engine for a similar concept
 
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Hiro Matsu****a was born in 1961 Daryl, so it's unlikely that he drove this particular car in 1972! He was a Pacific Division Atlantic champion and did Champ cars for a few years.
Odd creation for sure, too bad it failed.
 
Mystery Car

"Can-Am", by Pete Lyon, 1995, ISBN 0-7603-0017-8, Motorbooks Int'l, at pages 137-139 has a couple photos of this car at the Laguna Seca Can-Am in 1970, a couple paragraphs about the car. It apparently had 4 110hp snowmobile engines; as the 1200lb car had only 440hp it apparently was not competitive with the 465ci Chevys, et al. It didn't make the starting grid...
 
Your right Wes, the Macs IT site is wrong according to my race program it was this guy.

Hiroshi Kazato (風戸裕, Kazato Hiroshi?, born March 13, 1949, Chiba Prefecture, Japan; died June 2, 1974) was a Japanese racecar driver. Kazato started his career at age 19. He took part in the 1971 Can-Am season, finishing 10th in the championship driving a Lola T222-Chevrolet.

Hiroshi died at age 25 in turn one at Fuji bringing about the elimination of the turn completely. good catch Wes, heres a pic of Hiroshi in the MAC.

http://www.calclub.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2171&cat=500
 
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