racing car

a car used for racing, as a specially designed and modified car or stock car.

QUIZZES

Test your memory on these verbal firecrackers from the week of June 29 to July 5!

Question 1 of 7

anchorite

First recorded in 1905–10

She had previously been married to a racing-car driver who had been killed, leaving her with one child.
Gay Talese on Charlie Manson’s Home on the Range|Gay Talese|October 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The racing-car stopped and the man who was driving it got out.
Patty's Summer Days|Carolyn Wells
The chirography was the same as that upon the note of the racing-car episode.
The Voice on the Wire|Eustace Hale Ball
Master Ben will want to change his clothes before he sets out in his racing-car.
Peter Cotterell's Treasure|Rupert Sargent Holland

And, as Jimmie pointed out, changing from a slow suburban train to a racing-car could not be listed as a sacrifice.
The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys|Richard Harding Davis
We had done the Paris-Berlin run in my racing-car the summer before.
Hearts and Masks|Harold MacGrath