1958 Lister Chevrolet

1958 Lister Chevrolet in The Checkered Flag, Movie, 1963

Class: Cars, Racecar — Model origin: — Made for: USA

00:42:28 Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

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s13a ◊ 2022-04-22 00:22
993cc ◊ 2022-05-25 22:01	1958-59 Lister Chevrolet. Not the lower Costin designed body of 1959. More probable than Jaguar-powered because of US setting and side exhaust? About 16 Listers with Chevrolet engines (officially). Typically for a racecar no two were completely alike or even from race to race. 2nd on imcdb /v106201.html "...as often happened in the 1960s, a U.S.-built engine was dropped into a British-built sports car. The result was the Lister-Chevrolet.... The Listers swept the SCCA Championships in 1958 and 1959... production wound down in 1959, after fewer than 50 cars had been produced, only 16 of which were Chevrolet-powered..." That last number may or may not include Costin cars. https://www.sportscarmarket.com/profile/1959-lister-chevrolet

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s13a

◊ 2022-04-22 00:22

993cc

◊ 2022-05-25 22:01

1958-59 Lister Chevrolet. Not the lower Costin designed body of 1959.
More probable than Jaguar-powered because of US setting and side exhaust? About 16 Listers with Chevrolet engines (officially). Typically for a racecar no two were completely alike or even from race to race. 2nd on imcdb /v106201.html

"...as often happened in the 1960s, a U.S.-built engine was dropped into a British-built sports car. The result was the Lister-Chevrolet.... The Listers swept the SCCA Championships in 1958 and 1959... production wound down in 1959, after fewer than 50 cars had been produced, only 16 of which were Chevrolet-powered..." That last number may or may not include Costin cars.

https://www.sportscarmarket.com/profile/1959-lister-chevrolet

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