Trans-Am & other assorted pics from Monterey Historics...

[buickfunnycar.com]

Great wknd for historic racing,some neat cars that I haven't seen before.
Let's start it out with some T/A cars,mainly focusing on the three 2nd Gen cars that were in attendance.Only ones missing were the Chaparral Camaro and the Jerry Titus Firebird owned by Mark & Linda Mountanos.

Canadian Sunoco-sponsored '70 Camaro...not a Penske car:
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Warren Agor-driven '70 Camaro (believed to be the 3rd Jim Hall Chaparral Camaro team car) currently owned & driven by Ed Dwyer:
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All three cars:
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More T/A cars...
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Javelins out in full force:
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Tom McIntyre's beautiful '68 Championship-winning Penske Camaro:
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[buickfunnycar.com]

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Vic Edelbrock warming up the Boss on Sat morning:
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Chad Raynal's beautiful '69 Camaro:
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1967/68 Penske Camaro #1...the sneaky lightweight car:
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Lookie here...
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Trans-Am alley overview:
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Mario Andretti was the guest of honor and was reunited with his 1978 F-1 championship-winning JPS car.Mario ran exhibition laps on Fri & Sat and you literally could not get him out of the car.He was ripping off laps in the 1:25 range and you could tell the man still has it.The crowds around him when he came off the track were at least 10 deep all around him...talk about rockstar status:
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[Damn True]

Yeah, I was bloody impressed at the speed attained by a 70 year old guy, in a 30 year old car that he doesn't own.

[buickfunnycar.com]

In the paddock after the hot laps:
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I think we all know this car...
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6-wheel Tyrell Elf car...1st time @ Laguna!
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Fricking wild!
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Some T/A action...sorry for the lack of a zoom lens guys:
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My buddy George sitting in Dave's Lola:
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And finally...smiling Dave Pozzi getting ready for a Saturday drive through the countryside :firefire: :
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[JEFFTATE]

Great pics !,
Thanks for posting !!

Great story about Mario !

[Spitfire44]

Loved the pics. Thanks...

[SaturnVUEguy]

Nice pics!

[ScotI]

Bad arse!

[vanzuuk1]

Damn, now I have to drill holes in my trunklid...

[BossaNova]

Thanks..........I needed that.

[69Nova]

Awesome pics. Thanks for sharing.

[bingham72]

:worship: :worship:

The level of detail on these old racers makes me think of some of the WWII airplanes we used to see at airshows. It's amazing they can keep them that clean and still run 'em hard!

Where can I find a filler neck like this? Or was this all custom?


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[mpozzi]

More pics of the Historics ...

http://www.zenfolio.com/marypozzi/p756976911/

The files are huge so don't want to clog up this site with individual shots.

Cheers and enjoy,
Mary Pozzi

[Damn True]

Bingham,

Understand that many of these cars are really over-restored. The Penske cars were by far the best looking at the time which speaks to Penskes understanding of the business of racing & sponsorship. (keep those sponsor logos looking good and on a good looking - and fast - car). But rest assured, they never looked as good as they look now.

[JEFFTATE]

Thanks Mary !

[Neil B]

Great pics! I've always liked Chad Raynal's '69. It looks just as nice as it did 6-8 years ago. And that #11 2nd gen looks plain evil.

[buickfunnycar.com]

Damn, now I have to drill holes in my trunklid...

LOL...

Yes,these cars all look much better then when they raced in the day...

Neil B,
Chad Raynal's car is without a doubt the most perfectly over-restored car out there...it's actually a showcar that races!

PS:GREAT pictures Mary...some fine ones in there!

[Damn True]

Oh....interesting point about the Falcon and how it got to Monterey.


They drove it.

From Bakersfield.

...on one tank of gas.

[buickfunnycar.com]

Oh....interesting point about the Falcon and how it got to Monterey.


They drove it.

From Bakersfield.

...on one tank of gas.

Yeah,I had heard that...pretty amazing,huh?
There was a great article on that car recently in either Hot Rod or Car Craft...some amazing history there and as light as that car is with the power it has,it should dominate.

[mpozzi]

I'll never get tired of seeing that car on the track.

Cheers,
Mary Pozzi

[Mike Holleman]

Man!! You guys are so lucky to be able to attend and participate in events like this. I would love to see the big three go back at it in a new Trans Am type series. What with Nascar going to a Dam- generic COT platform, what is the point in calling them Chevys, Fords or Dodge's. I really miss the competition between brands.
Mike Holleman
And by the way, thanks tons for the pictures. Made my day.

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

god i LOVE the trans am racing threads.. i wish we had more of them..

i wore out the search for stuff like this..

[hangten]

awesome pics! thanks.

[buickfunnycar.com]

god i LOVE the trans am racing threads.. i wish we had more of them..

i wore out the search for stuff like this..

You can always count on me to do my thing Vengeance,at least twice a year.

Go to www.historictransam.com click on "race photo's" and then to the '08 Rolex Monterey Historics...5-pages+ worth of great shots!Check out the other events as well.

[tymbom]

I love the pics from the Historic Trans-am site, The Quail Run. I used to work with those CHP Officers when I worked in Salinas... I even met Mary at the Autocross in Marina... Its always cool to someone you know in cool pics like that.

[JEFFTATE]

I'm gonna' make it to a Historic Trans-Am or
Historic Can-Am next year !
For Sure !

Maybe the Trans-Am cars will run at Sebring again next year.
That's not too far from Georgia.

I'm pretty sure some vintage Trans-Am cars have run at Road Atlanta sometime in the past.
Maybe as part of the Walter Mitty Challenge.

And I think the the vintage Can-Am cars even had one of the Can-Am Reunions at Road Atlanta.

Maybe they'll come back to Road Atlanta at some point.

[Damn True]

Ok, here are my photos. I'm only posting one "on-track" photo because my camera is absolutely crap-tastic. If you want to see action pics check out Mary's photos.

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2008/08/17778182681-1.jpg (http://www.fquick.com/garages/viewgallery.php?action=viewimg&id=182681)

Bad photo, but it's a special car. Read the door.

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2008/08/17778182682-1.jpg (http://www.fquick.com/garages/viewgallery.php?action=viewimg&id=182682)

Coolest Camaro - EVER
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Bad - comma - arse
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Is this not the neatest Celica you've ever seen?

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2008/08/17778182685-1.jpg (http://www.fquick.com/garages/viewgallery.php?action=viewimg&id=182685)

I've never thought a Lexus was cool......but this one....

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2008/08/17778182686-1.jpg (http://www.fquick.com/garages/viewgallery.php?action=viewimg&id=182686)

Two words - Mario Andretti. Two more - F1 Champ

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[Damn True]

These photos coulda been taken nearly 40 years ago...except the cars would not have looked this good...

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2008/08/17778182698-1.jpg (http://www.fquick.com/garages/viewgallery.php?action=viewimg&id=182698)

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Dig the difference in rake between the two cars. Follmer and Parnelli had very different driving styles, which netted to very different setups (Parnelli liked the car loose thus the fwd weight bias)

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Dan Gurney for President!

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Bellisima Cinque-dodieci

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Also Italian, and possibly the coolest race transporter I've ever seen.
It's a Fiat...yes a FIAT..... with three Scarabs on the rack.

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2008/08/17778182692-1.jpg (http://www.fquick.com/garages/viewgallery.php?action=viewimg&id=182692)

Ginetta

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Beautiful old Indy Roadster

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[Damn True]

Artsy stuff.

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Ok...one on-track photo because I love T70's and Bobby Rahal is driving that HUGE white Lola two cars behind Dave.

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[Bow Tie 67]

I love it, the more I see threads like this and track my car the more I'm swayed toward painting it like the Sunoco car or something similar. I love the all buisness look, bad to the bone!

[JEFFTATE]

Isn't the blue Sunoco '68 Camaro with the red front spoiler the famous " lightweight" car .

[JEFFTATE]

Parnelli Jones was one heck of a hard charging driver !
I saw some footage of him passing in the dirt on the straights and stuff.
He was great !

[Bow Tie 67]

Isn't the blue Sunoco '68 Camaro with the red front spoiler the famous " lightweight" car .

Yep, look they took the 68 grill and I believe tail lights and put them on the 67 car for the 68 season. Notice no sidemarkers and vent windows.

[Damn True]

'68 grille, tail-lamps, and doors were bolted to the '67 lightweight body.

[JEFFTATE]

I read about that in the "Unfair Advantage" .
I was just wondering if that was "the" actual lightweight car.
Is that the car that got damaged badly in a tow-rig accident and then got rebuilt as a second car ( or back-up car ) for the next year ?
So they updated it to look like the next year's car ?

[mpozzi]

While not about the Trans-Am, I was bored so went inside some antique stores yesterday (I never go look at antiques so go figure...). One had a bunch of old books and I found "Faster" by Jackie Stewart. A first edition, too. Paid $9 for the book and it's a very fun read.

A few years ago I cleaned by folks house out and found two very cool books I'd bought but thought I'd loaned out. "Unfair Advantage" and "Speed with Style." Also, both are first editions.

Thought I'd share my find ...
Mary Pozzi

[showa]

That is the best looking Ginetta I have ever seen......

[JEFFTATE]

While not about the Trans-Am, I was bored so went inside some antique stores yesterday (I never go look at antiques so go figure...). One had a bunch of old books and I found "Faster" by Jackie Stewart. A first edition, too. Paid $9 for the book and it's a very fun read.

A few years ago I cleaned by folks house out and found two very cool books I'd bought but thought I'd loaned out. "Unfair Advantage" and "Speed with Style." Also, both are first editions.

Thought I'd share my find ...
Mary Pozzi

Wow Mary !
I'd like to see that " Unfair Advantage ".
I'm a huge Donohue fan.

[Orngcrush69]

Thanks for being so nice to my friends Dave P!

[DJW32]

I love the pics.

I have a dumb question...Do the first gen trans am camaros run sub frame connectors?

[buickfunnycar.com]

I love the pics.

I have a dumb question...Do the first gen trans am camaros run sub frame connectors?

I've been all over these cars and I don't think I've ever seen a pair.

[Damn True]

But they do have very extensive cages. One of the "unfair advantages" was the discovery that linking the cage to strategic points on the tub/sub will stiffen the entire system.