Horst Kwech

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Horst Kwech is a race car driver, race car constructor, engineer and inventor known primarily for his several wins and two championships in the early Trans-Am Series races of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s.Horst Kwech was born in 1937 in Vienna, Austria. Shortly after his birth, his mother emigrated to Australia where he grew up. Kwech began sports car racing in Australia in the fifties with an Austin-Healey 100/4 for Leaton Motors. He showed his mechanical engineering talent early building a custom sports car, the RM Spyder, with a Holden motor, which he later sold to finance his trip to the USA. Kwech joined Knauz Continental Motors of Lake Forest Illinois in 1963 as a lead mechanic. He won the SCCA Central Division Championship in an AUSCA Mark II in his first year in US Racing, in 1963