I hope this topic interests some of the grease monkey crowd.
Aside from drag racing, when I was in my early 20s, I was very interested in sports car racing.
I don't know if any of you heard of Lance Reventlow. Lance loved fast cars and was super rich.
Before Tesla, Lance constructed his own cars.
And they were super fast. And beautiful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_R...ow#Early_years
Here is Jay Leno driving the car