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This is pretty cool.  Someone on Ebay is selling a general admission ticket for 1970 Dallas Trans Am event that was cancelled due to excessive rain.  It was supposed to have taken place on April 26, 1970 at the Dallas International Motor Speedway.  I have never seen one of these before.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/135305667711?_skw=scca+trans+am+press+kit&itmmeta=01JV7CQHWP21Y8HARYFGW43T54&hash=item1f80d8a47f:g:GbwAAOSwUJxnECfg&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA0FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1clmoBDVabq2c4gWClOFB9pEff3hvrXJ0a3G7HnzeC1qFRUeHwPyryaIDMw2zdaYoy93wy3iu6xDgvCg%2BdrkvqMxTjXjF6RO%2BSgLvMd8l7OM6FBvA5dgLH3Oq0uYrIhiL6A0tJCJmFQ322mWcXPkQHfh%2Fm4NR9K6B5k506t87VZ8dqbdHUm%2BF1Mixhj0LVJJSDNXhsdyLcM0z0GlBW8Kqf2WsRTdzNc6wV492DKCVrFPuuAkv16jvx7ay%2FP9mYFjck%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR8Se3uzZZQ

Thanks for posting this Scott! I have been unable to find it.

Your welcome MO, I had a subscription to the magazine. 

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 

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Sorry I'm a little late.  I meant to post this when I got it in the mail.  Thanks Jon for your contributions to the article.  Enjoy!

Sorry to see this news from a couple months ago.  He was a great contributor to this page and although I didn't know him personally he always helped me with questions I had or gave insightful and knowledgeable comments to my posts.  Condolences to his friends and family. RIP

I assume this is the picture you guys are talking about.  I spotted it in an article at hagerty.com sevral months ago.  Amazing to find out that it was a picture of these cars!

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Really cool stuff Scott!!

Thanks MO!

I have come across some cool color film footage on Youtube that shows that multiple yellow 1969 Camaro RS/SS Convertibles with Endura bumpers were used to parade some of the race drivers around the track prior to the Labatt's 50 SCCA Can-Am event held at Le Cirquit Mont-Tremblant, St. Jovite, Quebec, Canada on June 15, 1969.  The other drivers were chauffeured around in multiple orange 1969 Firebird 400(?) convertibles and multiple green 1969 GTO convertibles.  See the footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_-3wo6uiAw  The title is mislabeled "1968" but it is definitely 1969.

There were 12 or more 1969 Camaro RS SS yellow convertibles that GM of Canada used as promotion to parade drivers for 1969 Can-Am series. They were all identical with 396-325 hp, auto, standard white interior, remote mirror, deluxe belts, endura, cowl hood, chambered exhaust and all of them were shipped to Canada on May 7, 1969.

Wow!  Thanks for that information.  I wonder how many of those still exist. 

1) worthpoint.com

2) https://bridgehamptonraceway.net/index.php/1960s-alternate/

Billboard for Village Chevrolet in pit lane.  Their name was on the pace car so they probably supplied it to the track.

1) https://bridgehamptonraceway.net/index.php/1960s-alternate/

2) Ad: https://thesupercarregistry.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1542852

3/4) Postcard circa 1968: worthpoint.com

Souvenir Program with Camaro / Corvette advertisement inside
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