Trans Am racing pace car pics...are there any?

[SMKZ28]

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

[Jon Mello]

Thanks, Scott.  You're continuing efforts are always appreciated.

[SMKZ28]

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.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/HistoricTransAmRacing/posts/4684224564947158/?__cft__[0]=AZU2Lg7Dpf2bomxA5Yr8LaEdTlUbCwccIIDHuIVgWoHDORF52QFMbYx-9bLrWh0NoJCPMagUCAqWXNm9vN6c_hcsEX_MKlSryaiVoypGvpesTBS99F1EWn5zdkMXVh5rDtOtE_0sG5pn6xccCt8JEVf7cATSxOsOIx53dnrgXUyJEdo5T3aTojlOYhfJ6MhycywD4yKBdH2XEZXOhC4ORQsx&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R-R

[Vince]

A beautiful car; it looks like an Italian exotic.   

[SMKZ28]

Here is a picture of the SCCA Trans Am Two-Five Challenge race held at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin on July 16, 1972.  It shows a Jensen Interceptor in pit lane just as the field is about to get the green flag to start the race.  Notice that the right turn signal is still illuminated after using it to tell the field that he was about to head into pit lane. 

The website where I found the picture states that this is the 1971 event but it can't be that year because you can see a VW Superbeetle in the field just under the bridge and one of these cars did not particpate in the 1971 event.  John McCollister did drive one in the 1972 race. 

Interestingly, the Jenson Interceptor did not pace the over 2.5 Trans Am race held that same day.  A Porsche 911 Targa performed those duties.  See images of the Porsche pace car in Reply #25 on page two and Reply #306 on page twenty-one of this thread.

https://wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS17193