The Traffic In Copenhagen Was Awful.......

[DEEPNHOCK]

Puny little cars on narrow streets......

[SN-60]

Great engine sound!

[rockne10]

Finishing first is never a bad thing.

Sort of in the same vein but, only turning left; percentage of Stude Coupes seems high.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75nei6-J90s

Thanks for the link, Javier.

[Noxnabaker]

I drove a few times in Copenhagen, never remember those cars
(But I've owned just about every car you could see getting overtaken here...)

[Pat Dilling]

Wow, pretty clear there was nothing else running there that could touch that Stude.

[allstateguy]

I must be the only ignorant one here. What's the story on car #14? Is it Stude powered? Owned by a forum member?

[Noxnabaker]

Wouldn't it be real nice to read "Yes, it's Studebaker-powered!"...?

[FlatheadGeo]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hausdok]

Mr. Boels is from the Netherlands and is apparently pretty prolific in European historic racing circles and pretty skilled. The body is Stude, the engine looks like a Stude V-8, but the suspension is obviously something competely custom.

http://www.studebakerracing.be

They keep calling this a '53 Carrera Panamericana Studebaker Commander. Was there ever such a model?

Here's another video of him competing in the Belgian Historic Cup at Zolder hot on the trail of a Porsche. Unfortunately, his differential went out on lap 5.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9EBEG4kc1A

Here's the page showing the chassis and engine. Click on the photos to enlarge.

Edit: Strike that. Looks like the engine is a General Motors Product.

http://www.studebakerracing.be/history.htm

[DEEPNHOCK]

The Le Carrera PanAmerica is a long standing race series in Mexico.
Vintage cars aboud... Many Stude's...



http://www.panamrace.com/

Lot's and lot's of great pic's and video's out there....
And being that it is a cutting edge performance race environment...several wrecks

http://tinyurl.com/La-Carrera-2012-pics

[hausdok]

He won his class there once.

If you win there I suppose it's considered proper to add that to the name of your car in racing circles?

[allstateguy]

Thanks for the links to the pix, Mike. Awesome race car, makes the OP video more relatable. What a ride!!

And the book Montezuma's Ferarri has a good few chapters about the Panamerica race from B.Levy, the world's best bummer of rides in race cars.

[Pat Dilling]

He won his class there once.

If you win there I suppose it's considered proper to add that to the name of your car in racing circles?

I think it is referring to the primary series the car was built for. You might say a particular car was a NASCAR Sprint Cup car but also legal in other formats.

[mr moto]

The rules for the top category in La Carrera (Turismo Mayor) allow the use of any engine ever installed by the manufacturer, i.e., Studes are allowed to run small block Chevies. I understand that they're basically NASCAR engines. That'll push a Stude coupe!
However, I see in the 2012 results that Studes in the Turismo Produccion class finished 6th and 8th overall. Those should have Studebaker engines in them if I understand the rules correctly. Not too shabby!

http://www.lacarrerapanamericana.com.mx/resultados.php#translate-en

[javier villanueva ruiz]

For the carrera Panamericana there are 9 race categories, the top two are allowed to modify the front and rear suspension, and basically are reinforced Nascar since the minimum weight is 1500, kg, the race is in a rally format and is very demanding, it covers 2,000 miles in 7 days, and there is an average of six speed stages every day,
Nascar engines do not last long, and 5 out of the 7 days is raced at high altitude,
this is a link of some pictures I took in this years race, they are taken close to where I live. https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=50812...rive&sc=Photos
this is a link of a rare 6 car accident on day 3, http://funksterwtf.blogspot.mx/2012/...day-3-wtf.html

and this is a link for a European tv show of the 2011 race, http://vimeo.com/33329239
part 2 http://vimeo.com/33337440
..