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HistoryAbout 20 cars were built from 1968 - 1979, by Larry Schneider and Gene Davis, near Madison Wisconsin. Their cars won two National Championships, several divisional titles and held numerous lap records. Their Ocelot Suzuki engines dominated the DSR class for years. Kendall Noah, who was the chief 747 instructor for TWA, drove a 1975 Ocelot. He won all seven national races he entered, and won the 1975 DSR National Championships Race in Atlanta. The original engine that was used was an Ocelot 850cc, 135 hp two stroke, water cooled Suzuki triple. The Ocelot also had a special Suzuki 5 speed racing gearbox. The gearbox utilizes straight cut gears and a special close ratio fifth gear. Four cars which were made from 1974 - 1975 with the then new "streamliner" body with the enclosed wheel wells. The streamliner body was designed by Kent Kelly, a GM stylist and aerodynamicist. The design was patterned after Le Mans endurance race cars. The graphics were done by Bob Burrows of Kansas City. The last of these cars was the only one with a roll cage.
Bill Meyer owned Kendall Noah's former car from 1980 to about 1986. It won the '75 Runoffs with a roll hoop. When Meyer purchased the car, it had been updated to a cage just like that shown on the picture of Jerry Dykhuisen's car. ocelotpa.jpg (32552 bytes) It went back to Wisconsin in about 1990. The photos as seen in the Ocelot Photo Gallery show the car after the cage was restored to the original configuration roll hoop for vintage racing. |
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