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SMKZ28

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Re: Trans Am racing pace car pics...are there any?
« Reply #360 on: June 12, 2024, 08:48:14 PM »
Just came across more photos showing the white 1969 Camaro RS/SS convertible that was used to pace the Mission Bell 250 Trans Am race held at Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California on October 5, 1969.   

Glen Carter posted the first image on May 21, 2024 at the Riverside International Raceway (RiR) 22 Sept '57 - 02 July '89 Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rememberingriversideraceway/posts/2155969748092757/?__cft__[0]=AZVPYHD7JLRCo5iY7lyCFnNv_h51iNqNbF9xrYTGBu8-PIVhsE2xguDzxHgXgLFDkoXXx19Zs68q7Nj3hcT7GjdnZyVTI4zQzxNAXtxjxAiJExCNmpNqVRro42MfNAlLbUmAFfYh-e_roAuBB_Hb4OLCoKdUUB0ZaFUEuyTCjgLARg&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

The 2nd image is a cropped version of the first.

You can barely see the Camaro in the 3rd image.  It is behind several people, ahead of the two Firebirds.  The 3rd and 4th photos came from here: https://library.revsinstitute.org/

Additional pictures of the car can be seen in Reply #254 on page #17
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I don't have a 1st Gen but I have 1971 Z28 RS 4-spd, 1997 Z28 Z4C 6-spd, 2000 SS Convertible, 2010 RS 6-spd

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Re: Trans Am racing pace car pics...are there any?
« Reply #361 on: June 16, 2024, 04:14:58 PM »
Thanks, Scott.  You're continuing efforts are always appreciated.
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Re: Trans Am racing pace car pics...are there any?
« Reply #362 on: October 24, 2024, 05:32:22 PM »
Back on January 4, 2022 Wayne Davis, a member of the Historic SCCA Pro Racing Trans-Am Series Fan Group on Facebook, posted these pictures of the red AMX/3 and wrote the following:

"Interesting story...In 1970 at the Watkins Glen race, AMC was providing the pace car.   It was supposed to be AMC's AMX.  The car they brought was AMC's AMX/3.  Chevrolet protested and the car  wasn't allowed to pace the race.  Instead the AMX/3 never got unloaded off the trailer.  The two photos are of the AMX/3 at Watkins Glen sitting on the open trailer near the AMC tent.  What a beauty, I understand why Chevrolet didn't want it to pace the event...they wouldn't have had anything close to the mid-engined  AMX/3 until the C8 Corvette 50 years later.  Photo credit: Bruce Kaiser"

A white 1970 Corvette convertible did actually pace the race held on Sunday August 16, 1970.  See images of it in Reply #218 on page 15 of this thread as well as Reply #318 on page 22.

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I don't have a 1st Gen but I have 1971 Z28 RS 4-spd, 1997 Z28 Z4C 6-spd, 2000 SS Convertible, 2010 RS 6-spd

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Re: Trans Am racing pace car pics...are there any?
« Reply #363 on: October 24, 2024, 07:22:04 PM »
A beautiful car; it looks like an Italian exotic.   

 

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