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Re: 1968 Trans-Am Season Review
« Reply #30 on: January 05, 2013, 06:33:35 AM »
Johnny Moore Z-28 Camaro gets set to go around the Porsche of Wilbur Pickett.

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Billy Yuma driving Bill Boye's Yenko Stormer Z-28 Camaro coming out of the infield part of the track and onto the banking.

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Re: 1968 Trans-Am Season Review
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« Reply #33 on: January 06, 2013, 07:22:53 PM »
Jon...that is great stuff!

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Re: 1968 Trans-Am Season Review
« Reply #34 on: January 07, 2013, 04:07:17 PM »
Thanks, Fred. I'm glad you're enjoying it. Here is some more from the morning edition of the Daytona Beach newspaper that I forgot I had.





















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Re: 1968 Trans-Am Season Review
« Reply #35 on: January 08, 2013, 03:49:00 AM »
12 and 24 hour endurance racing...alone... Wow! Money finish or not, that's quite an achievement.

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Re: 1968 Trans-Am Season Review
« Reply #36 on: January 08, 2013, 04:14:54 PM »
I agree, Fred.  I have a lot of respect for what he did.




















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Re: 1968 Trans-Am Season Review
« Reply #37 on: January 09, 2013, 04:47:00 AM »
Nice recognition for him.

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Re: 1968 Trans-Am Season Review
« Reply #38 on: January 12, 2013, 06:00:34 PM »

Daytona 24-Hour coverage from National Speed Sport News. (Jon Mello Collection)

































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Re: 1968 Trans-Am Season Review
« Reply #39 on: January 13, 2013, 06:30:09 AM »
Daytona 24-Hour coverage as found in Corvette News Vol. 11 No. 4, courtesy of Robert Lodewyk.











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Re: 1968 Trans-Am Season Review
« Reply #40 on: January 15, 2013, 04:59:03 PM »
Daytona 24-Hour coverage of qualifying from Competition Press & Autoweek. (Jon Mello Collection)






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Re: 1968 Trans-Am Season Review
« Reply #41 on: January 18, 2013, 05:09:19 AM »
Daytona 24-Hour, further coverage as found in Competition Press & Autoweek. (Jon Mello Collection)












     













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Re: 1968 Trans-Am Season Review
« Reply #42 on: January 22, 2013, 04:18:04 PM »
Daytona 24-Hour coverage as found in Stock Car Racing magazine. (Jon Mello Collection)







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Re: 1968 Trans-Am Season Review
« Reply #43 on: January 23, 2013, 02:29:49 PM »
Daytona 24-Hour coverage as found in Sports Car Graphic magazine. (Jon Mello Collection)






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Re: 1968 Trans-Am Season Review
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