This is awesome vintage video here. Super Vee: New Young Giant of Racing is a promotional film made by USAC and SCCA to help promote a series that was already exploding in popularity in the 1970s. When this film was made there were hundreds, upwards of 600 Super Vee racers in the country and the category had just been elevated to a professional, purse paying division of USAC competition. Back in the 1970s if you plunked down $20,000 you’d have a complete car, spares, and a few bucks left in your pocket to make it to the race track. Insane, right?
Super Vee cars use a VW engine which in this video is claimed to make about 160hp. The cars had a monocoque chassis which made them different from the tubular chassis of Formula Vee cars. The could make about 160mph on large ovals and they provided an awesome gateway trainer for racers who had aspirations of competing professionally on big super speedways and courses of that ilk.
What’s interesting is that this video seems to say that Super Vee was attracting all these massive crowds and acting as a big spectator draw. We’re guessing that the Super Vee class was a support category that was out on course ahead of the big iron, but either way, this whole program is awesome.
Anyone have a time machine? We want one of these babies in this initial era of the class!
