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« on: March 01, 2011, 10:25:00 PM » |
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The intent and purpose of this forum is to educate the 1st-gen Camaro enthusiast about the road racing history of their favorite car and the people involved with racing them back when these cars were new or only a few years old. Many special parts were made specifically for the early Camaro to make it not only competitive with its rival ponycars, but a winner. Here, we have a lot of respect for our competition because they helped make our car better than it may have otherwise been. This forum is meant for discussion of 1st-generation '67-'69 Camaros not only from a historical perspective, but also is open to discussion of their involvement in Historic Trans-Am racing, as seen on the www.historictransam.com website. We also hope to feature interviews and profiles of the people who originally owned, drove and/or engineered these special pieces of racing history. The intent is to grow this forum and topic of discussion to the extent to which it so richly deserves to be done. |
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« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2011, 10:26:56 PM » |
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Great job Jon! I love the vintage photos.
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« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2011, 11:12:27 PM » |
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Great job Jon. You put together some fantastic pictures and interviews.
Now, if only I could find that 68 Riverside "Mod Mod Race" poster!! It is "right on"!!
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« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2011, 12:34:54 AM » |
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Congratulations Jon,
A fantastic idea and site. I can't wait to get stuck in to some serious F body talk.
Regards,
Bruce.
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« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2011, 02:04:00 AM » |
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Well done Jon! I just signed up! and hello to Bruce "down under".
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« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2011, 02:52:03 AM » |
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Well done Jon! I just signed up! and hello to Bruce "down under".
Robert Barg
Hello Robert, nice to see you here. I will give Craig Phillips a nudge and get him involved, or would you like to do that ? Now we can talk about the real race cars, without the interuptions of open wheelers. Bruce. |
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« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2011, 02:23:02 PM » |
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Way to go Jon,
This site will help the hobby greatly, especially the 'racers'
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« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2011, 02:50:50 PM » |
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Great job Jon. You put together some fantastic pictures and interviews.
Now, if only I could find that 68 Riverside "Mod Mod Race" poster!! It is "right on"!!
Don't forget the RIVERSIDE RACEWAY MUSEUM "LEGENDS and FILM FESTIVAL" the end of this month, March 25-27. Parnelli Jones is the Featured Guest. See http://www.legendsofriverside.com/ for information. They will also have tributes to Parnelli's Trans Am days |
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« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2011, 07:01:34 PM » |
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I love all things Trans-Am related. Great that you guys put this together!
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« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2011, 08:00:07 PM » |
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Just spent a weekend with a bunch of Camaro buddies and were talking about the TA cars and Chad's car and then I get an email from Chad about this. Great addition to the CRG site!
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« Reply #10 on: March 03, 2011, 08:56:47 PM » |
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Great information and pictues Jon. A job both well done and needed. Thank you for taking the initiative that all of us can enjoy.
Love those vintage pictures.
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« Reply #11 on: March 04, 2011, 03:01:33 AM » |
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Watch out, you guys now have a FORD guy logged into you TA forum!! LOL. But hey, if its Trans Am we don't care what the make and model it is, rite??
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Jon Mello
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« Reply #12 on: March 04, 2011, 11:56:01 AM » |
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Thanks to all of you for the compliments. I'm happy to see this start out well and yes, I'm even happy to welcome the Ford, Mopar and AMC guys.  -Jon |
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« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2011, 12:33:44 AM » |
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GREAT work Jon. Bring on all those ORIGINAL pictures from back in the day  |
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« Reply #14 on: March 06, 2011, 12:42:24 PM » |
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very nice Jon,sorry for the late post but have been busy over here.I am sure we will all enjoy this fourm especially me LOL.Ron.
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« Reply #15 on: March 06, 2011, 12:46:06 PM » |
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Watch out, you guys now have a FORD guy logged into you TA forum!! LOL. But hey, if its Trans Am we don't care what the make and model it is, rite??
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« Reply #16 on: March 08, 2011, 10:46:33 AM » |
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Thanks for setting up this forum section.
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« Reply #17 on: March 13, 2011, 02:44:00 PM » |
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I agree! Your Trans-Am Camaros section is an incredible read. The narratives, interviews, and vintage photo's are truly an asset to CRG. Thanks for the hard work Jon!
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« Reply #18 on: October 03, 2011, 04:17:36 PM » |
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I agree! Your Trans-Am Camaros section is an incredible read. The narratives, interviews, and vintage photo's are truly an asset to CRG. Thanks for the hard work Jon!
I couldn't agree with Marty more, but it is an asset not just for the CRG, but to all of the car community!!! Jon Mello is doing wonders for our vintage history. Bob |
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« Reply #19 on: October 03, 2011, 10:43:41 PM » |
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The CRG website is the premier website for factual information and history on the 1st-gen Camaros. With few exceptions, all efforts have been focused on the stock, as-built production line cars. This new Trans-Am section is meant to provide facts and information authentic to the era in which these 1st-gen Camaros were built and campaigned on road race tracks (up through the year 1972, after which the T-A rules changed). I have been very fortunate so far to have had a lot of help from others who have provided a treasure trove of old photographs. These historic photographs have been a huge benefit to us all and I am very appreciative for the positive feedback that I have received regarding this project. Thanks to all of you.
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« Reply #20 on: March 29, 2012, 07:43:03 AM » |
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I didn't see an official new guy intro segment. I am more partial to the AMC racers in this series but I do appreciate and photograph all racers from the era and series. Hello!
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« Reply #21 on: March 29, 2012, 08:41:10 AM » |
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Welcome to the forum and thanks for joining us.
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« Reply #22 on: May 10, 2012, 01:36:13 PM » |
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Hi Jon.. well... i finally made it to joining the forum  .. looks like all the info from the last 10-15 years is on here!!.. if only this forum had been around when we started we could have saved ourselves a few hours!! LOL .. still.. great to see it.. now all i need to do is find time to visit all the pages and spot the bits you haven't added.. yet!!! ... ps.. outstanding effort.. jeff |
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« Reply #23 on: May 10, 2012, 02:36:52 PM » |
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Many thanks, Jeff! You and I have done a lot of research over the years. It's about time you signed up. |
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