A white 1968 Camaro RS/SS 396 convertible was used as the pace car for the Sandhills 250 NASCAR Grand Touring division race held at North Carolina Motor Speedway in Rockingham, North Carolina on Saturday, March 9, 1968. This Camaro is wearing similar decals/stickers to the Camaro pace cars used at Daytona the previous month. It might even be one of those cars, albeit with different lettering on the fenders. Notice that this car does not have the decal/sticker that went over the hood on the Daytona pace cars. It only has the red side decals/stickers. Also notice that the upper door decal/sticker is different from the one on the Daytona pace cars. This car has the word "CAMARO" next to the door handle and the NASCAR symbol under the door mirror. The Daytona pace cars had the opposite placement. This car also has a larger rear stripe that follows the contour of the upper part of the rear quarter panel, whereas the top of the stripe on the Daytona pace cars cuts straight across and does not follow the upper contour.
The "Carolina 500" on the rear quarter panels is there to promote the NASCAR Grand National event that was scheduled to run the next day, Sunday March 10th but was ultimately postponed due to rain. It would be run in June.
This was the inaugural event for the new NASCAR Grand Touring (GT) division which featured two classes of cars running on the track at the same time. Similar to the SCCA's Trans Am Championship, Camaros, Firebirds, Cougars, Mustangs, Javelins, Barracudas and Darts participated in the over 2.0 liter class (305 Cu. in. max.) while Porsches, Alfa Romeos and Minis ran in the under 2.0 liter class.
Tiny Lund won the event in his Bud Moore Cougar. Buck Baker had the highest finishing Camaro in the event. He finished fourth.
All four of these pictures came from the Peterson Automotive Museum SEMA Digitization Project:
https://archive.petersen.org/pages/home.phpNotice that the first and fourth pictures feature comedian and racing enthusiast/driver/owner Dick Smothers. It looks like he rode along in the back seat on the parade/pace laps with a beauty queen.
The second picture shows the Camaro in front of the field during a caution period.