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The Fast Chevrolet, nicknamed the Trueno Naranja, is a racing prototype, designed to run in the Turismo Carretera category, during the 60s. It is a car mounted on a handmade reticulated chassis and powered by a 250 cubic inches inline 6 Chevrolet engine. Although the reticulation that forms its chassis was designed by Pedro Campos, which was based on a Lotus Seven, it is recorded in the automotive records with the Chevrolet brand. It had been originally created by the Baufer bodybuilder as the Baufer Ford F-100 Prototype and its preparer was Horacio Steven. your pilot Carlos Pairetti was the one who obtained the 1968 Road Tourism championship with this machine. His name is a connotation of the fastback type design that the car has, while the nickname Thunder Orange, alluded to the color and the speed with which the car performed. From the 1968 championship, two Fast-Chevrolet units took part, the first being the car driven by Pairetti, while the second unit was a gold-painted Fast Chevrolet, which was driven by Oscar Espinosa Fangio. This second car was known by the pseudonym Trueno Dorado.
The Chevrolet prototypes were a series of vehicles that competed in Argentine motorsports presented by different preparers, who powered their machines with Chevrolet engines. The first of them was the revolutionary Chevitú, the creation of José Froilán González and which marked a turning point in Argentine motorsports. The most successful of them was the Trueno Naranja, created by Horacio Steven and champion in 1968, with Carlos Alberto Pairetti at the wheel.
The Baufer-Ford or Steven-Ford was a racing prototype designed and manufactured in Argentina by the defunct Baufer bodybuilder, and serviced by the preparer Horacio Steven to compete in Turismo Carretera. This prototype was created at the request of the official Ford Motor Argentina team, to face the IKA-Renault Torino, which the successful preparer Oreste Berta had presented in 1966, making the official IKA team debut. Ford's objective was to fight and hunt these cars prepared in Alta Gracia, in order to recover the leadership lost in 1966. With the regulatory change of 1967, which allowed the creation of racing prototypes at the pleasure and convenience of the preparers, the prototype devised had V8 engines from Ford F-100 trucks and was mounted on the chassis of a Ford T. This car was indistinctly known as Baufer-Ford for its creator body, or as Steven-Ford, for its preparer.
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- ↑ "CAMPEONES 1980-2009" (in Spanish). TC2000. Archived from the original on 29 November 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
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