Master puzzlers fill in the missing history of this little race car & earn a point...I know no further info on the machine...its up to you masters to help me out & give this machine its just do coverage, thank you.
This is the Viper SR-1, a hillclimb racer built by the Oswald family of Pennsylvania and raced by Jim Oswald from 1987-2005. Ron Mann (also of Pennsylvania) purchased the car in 2009 and drove it in local hillclimb events. In July of this year, it appeared at the Giants Despair Hillclimb in Laurel Run, Pennsylvania with driver Mike Kester of Larksville, Pennsylvania.
The images below show the car being driven by Jim Oswald (blue with yellow stripes and numbers 282/082) and most recently by Mike Kester (turquoise with orange stripe).
Upon seeing the recent photo (as driven by Mike Kester), Jim Oswald and others familiar with the car's history commented on what they saw as an unfortunate color change, front end height, and "lack of 2 cylinders," which suggests the car ran with a different engine in the past.
