@@jakerazmataz852Thing is, these don't cost all that much too fix if need be. The expensive part would be the engine. If these are even running the original engine they were made with -- which I doubt.
that GTO was Herb Adams wife's car. He put together a team from Pontiac's engineering department. The car was called the "Gray Ghost" back in the day. I'm not sure if they ran the 304 ram air five pontiac engine or the chevy 302. They could run the chevy engine because some Canadian Pontiacs ran chevy engines from the factory. Pontiac's tunnel port RA5 engine program died when Jerry Titus was killed during qualifying at Road America in 1970.
From '65 though '80 I was at every race at the Glen. I have attended a few more races, over the years, but it's not the same anymore. The old Trans Am and Can Am races were the best. Throw in the formula V's too. We always had fun.
Awesome content! This is my all time favorite race series. I was too young when it happened in real time, but glad to see them in historic races. Thanks for bringing it!
I was fortunate enough to see an SCCA exhibition race here in Tucson in about 1970. It was held at the old Tucson Municipal Airport near downtown (a special place in its own right). There was a small group of Trans Am cars, Mustangs and Camaros from what I remember, and they ran several class races and an open class race with Mini Coopers and Mustangs on track together with MGs, Alphas, etc. There was also a Formula V race and a Formula Ford exhibition with Tommy Smothers driving his car. Different times, great memories!
Trans Am first raced in Edmonton in 1970. Still remember these great cars and drivers. The last Trans Am race in Edmonton was in 2005 in front of 60,000 avid fans. Greg Pickett won that race. Great event. Was in Sonoma this year and watched Greg Pickett win again. Amazing. Great to see these cars still running. What a show.
My former employer had at the time I worked for him had a 69 University of Pittsburgh racing team Camero. Rodger Penske was involved with that from what he told me. He raced it at Watkins Glen and let's just say that it didn't go well. Brakes gave out and......you can imagine. Always loved seeing that car when he had it in the warehouse.
I don't know who the main commentator is for this video, maybe he's very young, but he made several statements in error. But the video is still very much worth watching. Driving these race cars, racing these race cars, has got to be one of the most extreme fun thing to do on the planet.
It's so nice to see these classics still racing. I was stationed at Ft. Ord in '92 and saw a classic car race at Leguna Seca. They had steamers up until 70's.
I was just a young gaffer when this series ended. But I'd see all the pictures and posters of these cars. In the late eighties when I got driving, 60's era muscle was hard to get or afford for a kid, so I drove sub 200hp crap to start :'( When the Boss 302 program came back, I was lucky and acquired a 2013 Performance White version. I'm living my dream, and no one is going to wake me :-) Awesome video, wish I was there to watch in person!!!!!
I owned a 1967 Camaro that I built. came out fairly nice certainly for this venue. However, of the 60's Camaro's The 1969 was the most beautiful of the Camaros. I had put a 425 HP 327 cubic inch small journal crankshafts. Smaller journal but forged steel.
Watkins Glen used to have the best party scene of any race track until it got too far out of hand in 1974. The mud bog just outside the track was home to heavy drinking and drugs, a giant bonfire fueled mostly by tires and the tradition of burning any car that got stuck in the mud. I was there in 1973 with a '68 Toyota Corolla that I bought for $80 just to sacrifice to the bog. That little car was so light that it stayed on top of the mud and wouldn't get stuck. Finally I drove it right next to the fire and got out. Within 10 seconds 3 drunks tipped it onto its roof in the fire and that was the end of that Corolla. The next year drunk race fans stole a greyhound bus from the parking lot, drove it into the bog and burned it to a crisp. A few days later dump trucks and bullldozers were filling the bog and expanding the parking lot.
@@NY-Vice In 1973 that was a full week's pay for a teenager with a summer job. If the mud bog was still there today I could still find a sacrificial car for a week's pay.
I'm Ford through and through but I was thinking exactly the same thing as the mic guy before he got to the 64 Pontiac I suppose everyone can spot the king
They took turns leading, making the finish close, but not racing. Sunday they would not come out in the rain, but the prewar Bugatti’s did just saying.
You obviously failed geography at school, or do they not study countries outside of the USA? Austria is in Europe, near Germany. Australia is a continent in the Southern Hemisphere, where they have The Never Never and throw ‘prawns’ on the bbq. Cool cars though.
It's the same. I figure Moffat's Mustang would be the only car that saw action at the Bath and N. America. That car is hands down the best sounding Ford small block I've ever heard fed by those eight individual stacks.
I believe only one team used Firebirds in the original series, and one team each for Barracuda and Challenger and a couple of independents had Darts . Bob Tullius won the '66 championship in a Dart. Chrysler was putting all their money into drag racing and NASCAR .
Penske/Donahue cheated with the '67-69 Camaro Z/28 cars back in the original series with acid dipped bodies and fiberglass body parts. After being caught, Ford Mustangs whooped their butts.
I see a Camaro and just yawn . So boring . I can't believe everyone of those Camaros were all original SCCA Trans AM cars . No MOPARs ? Boring , Boring , Boring . As Bad as the NASCAR GM Snoozefest .
