Dateline 1971. Malcom Bricklin had just left Subaru. The question was what to do with a heap of leftover Subaru 360s, unwanted in part thanks to a Consumer Reports article that blurbed the diminutive runabout as the most unsafe car in America. If you were Malcolm Bricklin, you got on the horn with Bruce Meyers of Meyers Manx dune buggy fame and had him fab up some racy-looking bodies, bolted ’em up to the Subarus with nerf bars, and launched a company called FasTrack that sold a turn-key racing franchise – complete with 10 racecars! Buck-a-Lap racing in Manx-bodied Subaru 360 based race cars is an idea which was clearly a little too far ahead of its time. FasTrack, or the lack thereof, may also go far to at last solve the mystery of this Subaru 360-based race car seen on the side of the road in New York state last year. Reuse. Recycle. Race!
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And did we buy this shining example of American race history?