SCORE101
CLASS
1/2-1600
RACERS WHO GREW
UP DRIVING 1/2-1600
VEHICLES WANT THIS
CLASS TO SURVIVE
WELL INTO THE
FUTURE OF SCORE.
F
rom the early days
of desert racing,
Volkswagen-powered
bugs and buggies
where the popular
vehicles that were
lightweight, easy to work on,
and inexpensive enough to race
and be competitive. When tube-
framed vehicles evolved onto
the desert scene, one and two
seat buggies, primarily using
stock VW 1/2-1600 cc engines,
transmissions, and suspensions,
ran as separate race classes for
several years. By the mid-1980's
the one and two-seaters (hence
the term one-two, not "half")
were combined to become
GETSOMEPHOTO
BY RICK SHANDLEY
VETERAN RACE DRIVERS
LIKE ROB MACCAHREN
HONED THEIR DRIVING
SKILLS IN A 1/2 1600 CAR.
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SCORE JOURNAL
