Riverside Trans-Am races

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We'll start off with the program for the '66 Riverside Trans-Am. This is from the Bob Sanders Collection, courtesy of Robert Lodewyk.

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The 1967 Riverside Trans-Am program, also from the Bob Sanders Collection, courtesy of Robert Lodewyk.

















































Preliminary entry list from the Jon Mello Collection.

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Some pages from the official entry form for the '67 Riverside Trans-Am.







Bob Sanders Collection, courtesy of Robert Lodewyk

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1967 Riverside Trans-Am race report from my October 7 issue of Competition Press & Autoweek. You may notice
that guys such as Mark Donohue, Dan Gurney, George Follmer and Peter Revson were not at this race. This is due
to a schedule conflict with the Can-Am series and those four were running at the Bridgehampton Can-Am on the
East Coast while this Trans-Am race was being run. Bob Johnson was the substitute driver in the Sunoco Camaro.






Note: Car #64 below is driven by Tony Settember, not Bob Johnson. The caption underneath is wrong.

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This Competition Press and Autoweek article from the 10-14-67 issue
notes that the Penske Camaro is of legal weight even with panel thick-
nesses near 1/3 that of stock. There are rumors and folklore that state
the same car weighed 2550lbs at Kent three weeks later. I find that
completely implausible.

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From my issue of Car & Driver magazine, December 1967.

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The 1968 Riverside program from my personal collection.

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1968 Riverside Trans-Am poster

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1968 Riverside dash plaque from the Bob Sanders Collection, courtesy of Robert Lodewyk.

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1968 Riverside Trans-Am race report from my personal collection.












Results of the race. DNF=Did Not Finish, DNS=Did Not Start


The report below is for the regional races which took place at Riverside during the same weekend as the Trans-Am.

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Some Camaros from the '68 Trans-Am...

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The 1969 Riverside Trans-Am program from the Bob Sanders Collection, courtesy of Robert Lodewyk.
Note, the layout of the track was changed beginning in '69 and there was a larger radius curve now
(turn 9) leading back to the main straight and the start/finish line.
















































Entry list

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The poster for the '69 race was very nearly identical to the program cover.

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1969 Riverside Trans-Am race report from my personal collection.