Fischer design/built Monza

Mick Fischer, owner of Fischer Motorsports of Wauwatosa, WI, designed and built his Chevrolet Monza racecar in 1979-80. He campaigned the car in SCCA Club Racing GT-1 national and regional events, as well as the SCCA Trans-Am professional series through 1984 or 85. One of his sponsors was "Camaro Parts Exchange" of Butler, WI.

The chassis is a hybrid with a partial tube frame joined to an OEM H-body chassis of a Chevrolet Monza. He said, “We left the front frame rails but stripped everything off of them and tied a tube structure into it. It was my own design, definitely a one off. It was tube frame with coil-over shocks as was just becoming legal in SCCA for GT-1 and Trans Am.”
 

He explained, “The engine was a GT-1 spec 305. That had been the class limit for a number of years when SCCA… said you could go out to 310 CID.” The larger piston set went for $2,500.00, he stayed with his two older sets that had the correct throw for a 305 cu. in. V-8. And went on to say, “The rear fenders were right from GM thru their Performance Parts catalog. The rest of the body work was from Hairy Glass out of Jacksonville Florida. They are actually still in business and still have the molds for the Monza parts.”

Fischer sold the car to Victor Achaval of Chihuahua, Mexico. between 1987-88, and was glad to hear it saw a lot of success in Mexico. Today Mick is still involved in racing and is a part time team engineer/ fabricator for a long-time friend who owns Yard Racing. Together they run the prep shop for vintage racecars located in Milwaukee, WI. It was in their previous shop that Mick built his Monza racecar over 30 years ago.

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Ownership History

Juan Stanglmaier found the old Fischer-Monza abandoned in a junk yard in Saltillo, Mexico near Monterrey in 2010, and rescued it.  He didn't know the builder until I contacted Mick Fischer and Victor Achaval.  They both recognized the car and remembered each other. Stanglmaier has restoration plans and ambitions of returning Fischer's old Monza Trans-Am car to the track.