This is one really huge subject and it would be nice to see what pics people can come up with here...

Like this one:



The car in the centre of the front row is one built by a very young Alex Ribiero and his friends from a worn out VW1200 in the mid sixties. The driver, however, is Nelson Piquet, though Alex and his friend did very well in it in Brazilian racing. In short, it surprised a lot of people.

This is from a website called blogdojovino-blogspot

But there are so many more cars which have seen service in local series in these countries, remembering that their heritage was so steeply in long races around the country in which the likes of Fangio competed and excelled.

Oddball stuff, they had, too. The OHC Jeep engine of the sixties was a favourite and there were other engines not so often seen elsewhere. The Chrysler Slant 6, AMC V8s too, if I recall.

What about we plumb this source of interesting cars and competitors?