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Trans-Am Camaros / Re: For All of You That Want to Own A Trans Am Race Car

« on: March 09, 2015, 02:29:04 AM »

Found this ex Jim Hall  1970  Camaro for sale by the Canepa Collection  http://www.canepacollection.com/detail-1970-chevrolet-camaro-trans~am-used-10720340.html.

I remember seeing Vic Elford race this car to victory in 1970 Watkins Glen Trans Am and ever since that day I have been a big Vic Eford fan ........... No price mentioned but one would probably need to be a member of Jay Lenos more money than brains club.

Vic Elford interviw on Cars Yeah   http://carsyeah.com/ourportfolio/vic-elford/

AL

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Trans-Am Camaros / Re: Brock Yates Camaro

« on: February 16, 2015, 03:45:42 AM »

           Back in the day the understaffed tech inspectors primarily focused on safety items and paid little attention to body and suspension mods....... In fact at the 69 race at St. Jovite one of the local inspectors made up a set of templates for the major makes but the SCCA decided not to use the probably because they knew that none of the factory cars would pass. 

        AL

       

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Trans-Am Camaros / Re: Brock Yates Camaro

« on: January 11, 2015, 01:48:13 AM »

 Jon,
In his book Sunday Driver Brock claims that the car he drove was specially built for him to drive...... According to Brock the car was rather hurriedly thrown together and was a bit of an ill handling beast.
By the way if you would like a copy of Brock's book for your library please let me know and I will mail it out to you.
          AL

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Trans-Am Camaros / Re: New "Muscle Car" digital magazine available

« on: December 07, 2014, 02:27:57 AM »

To bad it only works in android ..

AL

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Trans-Am Camaros / Man and Machine from Australia

« on: December 04, 2014, 12:49:28 AM »

While surfing the web the other day I came across a great website called Man and Machine, from Australia of all places, they feature Muscle cars and Classics of all makes and models with an element of iconic Machines to add to the mix.............. They have a lot of cool videos that are very professionally done.

http://www.manandmachinetv.com.au/

AL

Remember speed cost how fast do you want to go ??

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Trans-Am Camaros / Re: Bill Thomas /race cars

« on: November 28, 2014, 10:20:09 PM »

Neat stuff Jon............
Back in 1968 I was in LA building engines for some  Australia racers I used to buy a lot of my parts from Bill Thomas and in those days it was a real happening place Their primary focus on drag racing and Corvairs with a small bit of road racing thrown in. I think they were mainly brokers with most of the good stuff coming from Traco and other local suppliers.

AL

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Trans-Am Camaros / Re: Brock Yates Camaro

« on: November 25, 2014, 04:15:07 AM »

Met him at few races back in the day and he always struck me a very arrogant individual ..........The title of the book more or less describes his driving style.

AL

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Trans-Am Camaros / Re: Warren Agor

« on: November 04, 2014, 12:46:54 AM »

Robert,
   
          Better slow down a bit you Trans Am drivers are becoming an endangered species !!!

AL
(old Trans Am Mechanic) 

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Trans-Am Camaros / Re: 1969 Kent, Washington Trans Am Color Photographs

« on: October 31, 2014, 01:57:09 AM »

Great pictures, I love the Penske timing stand ...........

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Trans-Am Camaros / Re: New Zealand/Australian Camaros And Firebirds

« on: September 12, 2014, 01:06:31 AM »

Nice work Steve I am really impressed with the build quality the cars and one can only imagine what a nightmare it must be acquiring parts from the other side world to keep them running.

AL

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Trans-Am Camaros / Re: Breaking-in of Race engines?

« on: August 26, 2014, 02:55:51 AM »

In my opinion the single most important thing you can do when building a race engine is find yourself the best machine shop that you possibly can and preferably one that specializes race engines only........... Have them line bore your block, mill the deck then hone the block with a torque plate attached ........The other important item in your build is the crankshaft we had ours custom ground to assure we had the correct  clearance for our Clevite bearings then we would send the crank out for nitride treatment. For our engines camshafts wear was not a big issue so we used a heavy weight oil on the journals and lobes but the one thing we always always did was to prime the oil pump with a drill before we fired it up.

  AL

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Trans-Am Camaros / Re: Front Hub Grease Caps

« on: July 16, 2014, 12:18:06 AM »

If my memory serves me correctly from my dealership days the brass inserts were installed on radio equipped cars to prevent interference from static electricity....... Back in the day many radios were installed by the dealership and I seem to remember the inserts being part of the radio package.

AL

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Trans-Am Camaros / Re: Gorries Black Panther Camaro

« on: July 03, 2014, 11:43:21 PM »

Gorries was a very cool dealership by Canadian standards .......... As teenager I remember visiting their used car lot and drooling over a large collection quality used Corvettes.

AL

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Trans-Am Camaros / Re: Engine photos

« on: May 09, 2014, 02:58:02 AM »

Open the image right click on it then click save ............

AL

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Trans-Am Camaros / Re: Tony Settember

« on: May 09, 2014, 02:52:29 AM »

Bob,

         You old Trans-Am drivers should be put on the endangered species list.

     AL