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bugeye

Autocross In Car from a rotary powered Sprite

February 21, 2010

Long time readers will recall the video we posted years ago of a 3 rotor Bugeye Sprite attacking an autocross course. I still go back and visit that clip often, as I just love to hear the wail of the wankel!
Today we have Jeff Kiesel in his Bugeye that has a turbo rotary that puts [...]

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Duck!

October 10, 2009

Another series of gems from Dad’s collection of old racing stuff. In this sequence of newspaper clippings, Bud and his MKII Sprite get caught up with Wilf Becker in a Bugeye at Harewood Acres. During the melee, Bud’s hood took flight. I’m not sure what the outcome of this was, whether either car continued on. [...]

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Stay away from that guy or he’ll hit you!

July 21, 2009

The past week has seen some pretty cool action here in The Garage. Thanks to an old post about my Dad’s early racing days, I was able to reunite him with one of his employees from way back in 1967. Terry Fitzgerald was also one of Bud’s strongest competitors that year. As racers do, they [...]

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The car that started it all

December 22, 2007

Like so many other racing addicts, the fever was started with a Bugeye Sprite. In my case though, it wasn’t my own car but my father’s first race car a full 2 years before I was born. The seed was planted though and that propelled Bud on to race with some success over the next [...]

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