Daniel Hall

And yes, those are Fiat Brava tail lights…

Many of you may be familiar with the fairly outrageous Mega Track. A 394-horsepower V12 powered, all wheel drive supercar which had the capability to drive over almost anything thanks to its 13’’ ground clearance. What you may not be familiar with though is the car that came after; the Mega Monte Carlo.

Mine would be the Dare Motorsports Ginetta G12

Officine Stampaggi Industriali, or OSI for short, was founded in 1960 and for about 6 years went about making unique shapes out of Fords, Fiats and Alfa Romeos. It was much like a cheaper Zagato. In 1967, the company started to fall, 2000 workers had lost their jobs and the company founder, Luigi Segre had lost his life. OSI’s only choices now were either to collapse, or try and bring out one more car to save them all. They chose the latter, obviously .

Powered by a 750bhp 2.0 litre BDTE Cosworth Evolution engine this once road-going RS200 was converted to compete in the IMSA GTO in 1988. The car wasn’t as successful or reliable as first hoped and only raced in 3 out of a possible 38 races from 1989 to 1991. In 1991 the car saw a 40th place finish, completing the race second to last. After the cars 3 year racing career, the car was sold on and later modified to be suitable for racing in the Pikes Peak hill climb event which it still competes in today.