Let's show vintage racing pictures. I'll start.

[conedodger]

Has to a later picture of PLN... 

[26th-Z]

From the HSR Facebook page and Racer magazine;

"Another very significant car that will be competing at Historic Sportscar Racing's upcoming Classic Motorsports Mitty at Road Atlanta on April 26-29 is this 1976 IMSA GTU Championship-winning Datsun 240Z now owned and campaigned by David Martin.

In 1974, Brad Frisselle made the decision to compete professionally. He formed a company and a racing team (Transcendental Racing) that designed, constructed, and tested a Datsun 240Z prototype for the IMSA Camel GT Series. In 1975, Brad had his first three professional victories and was awarded IMSA's Most Improved Driver award, becoming the only man to win these coveted awards in both IMSA and the SCCA. Frisselle went on to win the IMSA GTU championship in 1976, in his team's Datsun 240Z, scoring eight victories out of the eleven races that he entered. Brad soundly defeated the factory Datsun team as a privateer with his own team, Frisselle Racing.

This car is the 1976 IMSA GT/U championship car. The chassis of this car was the first 240Z imported to the United States in 1970. Mac Tilton designed the suspension and built some of the specialized parts. The chassis, roll cage and body were all constructed by Dave Kent with assistance from Yoshi Suzuka who was also responsible for the design of the aerodynamics on the car. John Knepp of Electramotive built the engine.

After the car was finished Trevor Harris added his expertise in the development of the chassis and suspension. In the day this car was the most advanced and fastest GTU car racing in IMSA."

[HS30-H]

30 minutes ago, 26th-Z said:

From the HSR Facebook page and Racer magazine;

".....Brad soundly defeated the factory Datsun team as a privateer with his own team, Frisselle Racing.

This car is the 1976 IMSA GT/U championship car. The chassis of this car was the first 240Z imported to the United States in 1970. Mac Tilton designed the suspension and built some of the specialized parts. The chassis, roll cage and body were all constructed by Dave Kent with assistance from Yoshi Suzuka who was also responsible for the design of the aerodynamics on the car. John Knepp of Electramotive built the engine.."

Yogi Berra:

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"It's déjà vu all over again!"

 

[gnosez]

There was a factory Datsun race team in the USA? Who knew?

[26th-Z]

Yea, take everything found on Facebook with a grain of salt.  This was a link to a RACER magazine page.  I was initially attracted to the photo, but I just couldn't help clipping the article.  It's so 'BENCHRACER'!

[HS30-H]

On 2/8/2010 at 6:29 AM, Mike B said:

Chris,

Here are a couple more pictures of the Frisselle car from 1976 I thought you might be interested in. That is John Morton in the gold racing suit running over to swap drivers.

-Mike

From back towards the beginning of this thread: As with many things on this forum, we've been there before. Mike has a colour version of that Transcendental Racing/Frisselle/Morton shot.

[conedodger]

Not so vintage...

[conedodger]

Looks like a mid 70’s S30 leading this pack. 77 or 78.

Edited April 11, 2018 by conedodger

[260DET]

On 08/04/2018 at 6:34 PM, HS30-H said:

From back towards the beginning of this thread: As with many things on this forum, we've been there before. Mike has a colour version of that Transcendental Racing/Frisselle/Morton shot.

People who post what they think is interesting make any forum and many people do find such posts interesting and a possible start to a discussion . Which hopefully among adults will lead to The Knowledge. Those whose comments  go nowhere contribute nothing.

[HS30-H]

36 minutes ago, 260DET said:

People who post what they think is interesting make any forum and many people do find such posts interesting and a possible start to a discussion . Which hopefully among adults will lead to The Knowledge. Those whose comments  go nowhere contribute nothing.

Your comment being an example of the latter...

[conedodger]

PLN...

[conedodger]

510 ready for action.