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Ocelot DSR
« on: October 09, 2023, 08:48:04 AM »
Identify this race car, please
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Re: BD1015
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2023, 04:13:44 AM »
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Re: BD1015
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2024, 05:58:46 AM »
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Re: BD1015
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2024, 03:29:14 AM »
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Re: BD1015
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2024, 04:06:29 AM »
Jerry Dykhuisen's Ocelot bodied Beach Formula C

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Re: BD1015
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2024, 09:21:35 AM »
Ocelot is correct, but give me the model name.  I locked the puzzle for you

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Re: BD1015 Locked for oko94
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2024, 03:08:53 PM »
S2000 ?

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Re: BD1015 Locked for oko94
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2024, 08:32:28 AM »
S2000 is not the model name.  Still locked for you for 1 try oko94

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Re: BD1015 Locked for oko94
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2024, 09:21:16 AM »
Here is the full story of Jerry Dykhuisen's Ocelot bodied Beach Formula C, from the website featuring the puzzle picture. Is "streamliner" the name you're looking for, or "DSR" ?

"Enthusiasts who are new to the class may find it interesting to learn that it's the first center seat DSR to qualify for The Runoffs.  Note how the the law of  "six degrees of separation" appears constantly throughout this account. Despite the center driving position, Jerry Dykhuisen's car looks like Archie Onweiller's Ocelot, circa mid-late 1980's.  However, it once belonged to Salvatore Jenko, a Madison, WI area building contractor whose business was located next to Ocelot.

Sal originally raced the Beach chassis as a Formula C, with Suzuki power.  For 1978, he fitted a modified Ocelot "streamliner" body, keeping the radiator up front. The modifications resembled the nose of Ocelot's upcoming first generation S2000.  Sal won the SCCA Central Division championship in 1979.  The body was changed to the latest generation Ocelot S2000 by Dan Olberg, a Twin Cities area motorcycle dealer.

The late Chuck Reupert, of Milwaukee, WI, is the one who purchased Onweiller's Ocelot (his son Michael is the past DSR National Champion who supplies the AMW engines).  He also replaced the streamliner body with the last generation S2000 body.  Later, Chuck acquired a Lola FF based DSR (Wynnfurst?), which would sustain heavy crash damage.  The rear third of the Lola and its AMW motor were grafted to the Ocelot, aft of the roll bar.  The car was humorously referred to as an "Oceola."  I last saw "two thirds" of Archie's car several years ago at the June Sprints, running a GT5-spec Honda engine.

Before acquiring Jenko's car, Dan Olberg purchased Archie Onweiller's Chimera. It was an aluminum bodied, one-off DSR (Ocelot engine) that was arguably faster than the Ocelot that replaced it.  Dan also raced an NTM with Ocelot power.  When Larry Schneider and Gene Davis closed up shop for good, Dan purchased the tooling equipment, and continued to sell and service Ocelot motors under the "Magnum Racing" badge. Paul Decker, who ran Ocelot engines in his LeGrand Mk18, won two National Championships while using Magnum engines."