24 Hours of Nelson Ledges, 1980's R&T Articles

Rupunzell · Dec 10, 2009

With the help of a friend who has just about every issue of Road & Track from back in the day, He photo copied these articles from 1984 & 1987 when the X1/9 dominated Show Room Stock racing, class SSC for years starting in 1983.

Here is the article from 1984, note Porsche ran a "Prototype 944" and did well. It should be noted that stock production Porsche 944's don't do well at 24 hours of LeMons. I suspect the cars that did well back in the day would also do well at 24 hours of LeMons..

Then in 1987.. Kim Baker's team returned to Nelson Ledges with a Alcan Aluminum body x1/9 running in prototype class. Alcan had 5 of these cars built by Bertone after they announced this body production process. Sadly, Innes Ireland crunched it.. One might wonder what ever happened to these Aluminum bodies X1/9s.

paul · Dec 13, 2009

Great stuff to read, Bernice.
Never knew this little car is that good!
Together with the videos you posted it gives a nice feel of the event.
Thanks for scanning and posting it.

24 Hours of Nelson Ledges, 1980's R&T Articles

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