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The "find" harkens "back to the day"...I sold three of them to racers who enjoyed good success. The Series initially paid $5,000 to win, $1,000 for 5th (plus a fresh set of Gatorbacks), pretty good money for a car that invoiced for about $16,000.
One Team we sponsored ran the '86 campaign, finishing 6th Overall (after missing one of eight races!), with a total damage bill at season's end of $249! Some others heavily damaged their cars more than once...
This Series was the breeding ground for folks like Ron Fellows, David Empringham, Scott Maxwell, Kathryn Teasdale, Randy MacDonald, and Richard Spenard. In fact, Earl Dickenson, who ran GM-Canada Motorsports in its latter years, was the man who intro'd Fellows to Herb Fishel, then-czar of GM Racing. Fellows, while testing/running Player's Challenge cars for the Company, gave the most accurate and useful feedback to Bill Ball and the other engineers, thereby improving the breed...and raising his stock to great heights... You may recall the '08 Z06, White with Red hash marks(Canada's international racing colors), called the Ron Fellows Special Edition. That all "started" in the '86 Player's Challenge...
Think of the R7U cars as a latter-day "COPO" Program...roll-cage 'n all...
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