Now THIS is awesome. We were doing our normal stumble job around eBay looking for things that we cannot afford, things that we should not own, and things that we don’t want anyone else to have when we encountered this 1948 Kurtis V8-60 midget for sale. This is not just some re-popped, recreated or remanufactured thing. No way, baby. This is the genuine article and it is freaking awesome. So often we only see these cars in old photos or just sitting around at a show or something. To see this one being raced actively now is what spun our crank. How freaking riotous does it look to be on the track with this sucker! Especially when you look and find yourself running wheel to wheel with all kinds of old sporty cars and stuff.

The beauty of this car is not just physical. Yes, it is neat as a pin and its little flathead engine looks perfect all tucked snugly in the shapely nose of the midget that Frank Kurtis built at his shop but the history that this one has beats even its appearance. This car was run on road courses out west along with circle tracks and actually had some success. The car competed in and won Formula Libre (run whatcha brung) events at long gone tracks like Riverside and Paramount Ranch, California. It was Rodger Ward who took a midget to Lime Rock and won against the world’s greatest sports cars in this era that popularized the idea. Many of the midgets used a simple in and out style or high/low style transmission which is not ideal on a road course but this one has a Harley Davidson transmission giving it multiple speeds and we’re sure an even larger dose of entertainment to drive.

The seller thinks that this is the only midget currently road racing in the country and whether he is right or wrong, the fact that it’ll hopefully continue to do just that makes us smile. So awesome!

eBay: 1948 Kurtis V8-60 midget with SCCA road racing history – this thing rules