CLEMENTE EUROPEAN MOTORS' FIAT 124 SEDAN

Affectionately known as the "Apple Box", our 124 Sedan was a car that should probably never have done what it did - win. In truth, it should not have even competed. It was a car of rather humble, utilitarian origins built to race at a time when the dominant cars in SCCA and CASC sedan classes were the Coopers, Lotus Cortinas, Alfa GTVs, and the then newly developped Datsun 510. What was my dad thinking by putting this thing on the track? Well, when I asked him that question, he said it was pretty simple; he was thinking "Those poor guys, they won't even know what hit them..."