Rumor has it there are 3 of these cars that have very rare hemispherical heads which produce approximately 650hp for the 302 cu in arrangement. Love it! I miss my 1968 383 equipped 'Maro !
That Camaro is my all time favorite car. I'd rather drive that than any Corvette, Ferrari or Porsche. The red interior was a requirement of Mark Donehue, the Champion that drove that monster in 1969.😎
@@paulcarter2879 I think acid dipping was pretty much standard practice in Trans Am racing... I got the 7/8's Camero story from two different sources.....it may not have been the SUNOCO Camero, but it was one of them. The racers thought there was something off about the car and they couldn't quite figure it out, so they went out into the parking lot and measured a Camero out there and it was a bit bigger than the race car. That story was backed up by by my engine builder and friend, Dave Tatum , who drove the Burien Mercury Cougar in Trans Am and knew everybody back in the day. Dave's team got caught running an illegal 302 Tunnel Port after about three races But like Smokey Yunick said...... "It ain't cheating until you get caught".
@@godsowndrunk1118 I wouldn't put it past them! It's too bad that all that racing and that old school generation is all but gone too. In my opinion Smokey was a bad a$$!
I love the old trans am series
Music to my ears!
One of my favorite race cars of all time!!
mine 2!
one of the 2 racecars with the most interesting backstories....
Rumor has it there are 3 of these cars that have very rare hemispherical heads which produce approximately 650hp for the 302 cu in arrangement. Love it! I miss my 1968 383 equipped 'Maro !
One of these cars was destroyed in a Earth quake in Mexico I was told by the owner of this car...
These 1969 Trans-Am cars are truly the best racing series to come out in that era.
American Muscle baby!!!
That Camaro is my all time favorite car. I'd rather drive that than any Corvette, Ferrari or Porsche. The red interior was a requirement of Mark Donehue, the Champion that drove that monster in 1969.😎
MUSIC TO MY EARS!
Mark Donohue's Penske car?!
sounds good!!!
The ultimate Penske cheater car, LOL!! and still doing it today.
What location was that at , nice 1964 corvette next to the Penske Camaro
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Was it dipped?
Isn't that the Camero that was built to 7/8's scale in order to save weight?
In other words, cheat ?
No. And there was no 7/8 scale Chevelle at Daytona, either. Those were myths, created by people who couldn't outrun those cars, and needed an excuse.
Nope, but they did acid dip the bodies. They were so thin that if you put light pressure on a panel it would dent.
@@paulcarter2879 I think acid dipping was pretty much standard practice in Trans Am racing...
I got the 7/8's Camero story from two different sources.....it may not have been the SUNOCO Camero, but it was one of them. The racers thought there was something off about the car and they couldn't quite figure it out, so they went out into the parking lot and measured a Camero out there and it was a bit bigger than the race car.
That story was backed up by by my engine builder and friend, Dave Tatum , who drove the Burien Mercury Cougar in Trans Am and knew everybody back in the day.
Dave's team got caught running an illegal 302 Tunnel Port after about three races
But like Smokey Yunick said......
"It ain't cheating until you get caught".
@@godsowndrunk1118 I wouldn't put it past them! It's too bad that all that racing and that old school generation is all but gone too. In my opinion Smokey was a bad a$$!
@@paulcarter2879 Ditto......