Media related to historic Trans-Am

This raceway is still with us, Brainerd International Raceway in Brainerd, Minnesota. Formerly named Donnybrooke.


And this track is still around. Here's Mid-Ohio in 1970.


And a forum in Thailand with a thread devoted to Trans-Am
http://www.musclecarthailand.com/forum/index.php?topic=575.msg8311#msg8311

Cool thing about the Thai site is if you use Google Chrome it will offer to tranlate all the Thai into English for ya

This happened in August 2010 at Laguna Seca. It sucks though that can happen when people take them out on the track; and Amen, it was being driven.

Avanti 63r1025 wrote:This happened in August 2010 at Laguna Seca.

I seriously just threw up a lil

Not sure if you remember this site Geoff but here is a photo history of Trans Am from 1966-1972! Tons of inspirations for logos and sponsor liveries! Trans Am 1966-1972

Notice that Richard Petty raced a Plymouth Barracuda in 1966 Trans Am

Sure beats the crusher...

Also I have a ton of the classic 60s-70s sponsor vinyls so anyone that needs the Koni/Goodyear/Champion ect.... of the era let me know and I can help out

Good site find, Squid.

Take a look at the scoring sheet; his name was typed in as Dick Petty. Someone Dick and hand-wrote Richard above it. They must've thought he was such a Richard! The car DNF after completing 12 laps. Five O2 cars finished and Petty's Barracuda was one of four O2 cars to go out. He finished in 8th place at VIR '66.

Simcik wrote:Sure beats the crusher...

These cars are bought and raced by people who have what's called spare cash. I sure would love to know where to prin… I mean, get some of that. I worked with Devin and Paul Raynal (cousins) at the go-kart track. Devin's brother, Chad Raynal bought the #64 "Mid-Del Auto Parts" Camaro. I'm pretty sure the #42 'Cuda is being repaired as all the guys (and gals) involved with these cars today love to see them on the road.

Oh yea no doubt but you could see the look on his face as he took in the Cuda wrecked and mangled. If ya find it there is an epic wreck from lap one in a 1969 race I saw in the 66-72 site. So many awesome T/A cars destroyed.

Was at Tremblant

That's an automotive orgy; I see a Mustang on top of a Firebird. Dude, that Mustang is sitting on the Firebird's face

These pictures are exactly what will happen during our series. CANT WAIT!!!!

Josh, I hope not. These cars won't have a lot of technological advancements (I mean, I am turning off anti-lock brakes) but I don't believe we'll have too many wrecks. One, I'm giving potential racers time to get used to driving without ABS, and two, we're all pretty good at avoiding a disastrous scenario (lag withholding).

Racing without ABS is pretty easy. Just don't pull (the trigger/stick) all the way back as fast as possible. You can pull [it] back quite far so long as you ease into the brakes.

Fuck non-ABS brakes..... especially when you can't adjust brake pressure....

Its going to be a long battle for me, I've been rolling around a bit without them and they lock up every time I look at the brake trigger.....

Ha ha. The uh, the clutch wasn't designed for this kind of maneuvering. Bite the bullet, don't back it into the garage spot, get the nose pointed in the desired general direction, select 1st gear, raise the engine rev's to about 4,000 and drop the clutch. That clutch has to be an on/off switch anyway.

Embedded video is being a dildo so the link is here. I like the comment from the guy saying he'd buy the car and drive it to work. He could wear ear plugs and a helmet yet he'd still be deaf by that Thursday.

The first couple of minutes are pretty awesome then the video goes all 60's and stuff... There is some more race footage after but the bulk is up front and in the middle.

Kind of reminds me of the original Gone in 60 Seconds... Awesome, dafuq I just watch, awesome. Gotta admit, I fast-forwarded through the music and crowd pictures lol

Moved and merged the inspiration thread. Donnybrooke video in initial thread post.

Thanks Avanti, looks like you were several steps ahead of me!

http://transamracing.blogspot.com/

http://forums.autosport.com/topic/121287-trans-am-racing-and-25-challenge-memories/

Those are amazing sites; thank you for posting the links.

You are welcome.  A lot of pictures doubled with one you posted earlier, but there was some other stuff too, I think.

Saturday 5/17 qualifying session. Camera focused on turn 2 with the end of the start straight in the background.

Nice music.

I figured this group would like that.

My social media friends got these but I didn't post a link here, so speaking of nice music. I made a mistake and didn't vocalize an indicator each time I started to record. Files 14 (4:56 mins.) and 16 (5:11 mins.) are definitely O2 Trans-Am cars. File 31 (9:49 mins.) is not, it's probably the over 2000 cc GT class.