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Cunningham Sports Cars: American Racing Legends 1951-1955
by Karl Ludvigsen
Binding: Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Iconografix
Weight: 1.09 pound
Dimension: H: 0.38 x L: 10.22 x W: 8.78 inches
ISBN 10: 1583881093
ISBN 13: 9781583881095
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Time magazine cover hero and America's Cup yachtsman Briggs Cunningham cut a swathe through the post-war sports-racing scene with his magnificent Cunningham sports cars. He burst into view in 1951 with his Chrysler-powered C-2 sports-racers and in 1952 launched the production C-3, a Vignale-bodied car built as both a coupe and cabriolet. Some two dozen were made. The C-4R was his 1952 racer, still Chrysler-powered, which performed well at Le Mans and with Phil Walters and John Fitch was all but unbeatable in American racing. Radical with its solid-axle front end and colossal drum brakes, the C-5R of 1953 was a challenger to the Jaguars at Le Mans. In 1954 Cunningham raced a much-modified Ferrari with water-cooled brakes and in 1955 introduced his C-6R, beautifully engineered by Briggs Weaver and Offenhauser powered. Fabulous unpublished pictures from the Ludvigsen Library show these great cars on the track and at rest. panache. They carried the American flag ! at home and abroad with style and

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