Link to the pictures of the event. Sorry if this is a re-post.

http://picasaweb.google.com/checkeredflag200/TributeToTransAm

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Without a doubt my favorite time in American road racing.. THANKS SO much for these pics. Wonderful amount of history that produced the creme of the crop in American driving talent still to this day.

Without a doubt my favorite time in American road racing.. THANKS SO much for these pics. Wonderful amount of history that produced the creme of the crop in American driving talent still to this day.

I aggre. Thats how I try and model the design of my Z, period road race look., all the way down to the 215/60/R14 tire size. Recently came across a movie on Comcast On Demand called GRAND PRIX. A great racing movie staring James Garner. Didn't know "Jim Rockford" was a real race car driver unto a few years ago before that. Love this stuff, that was real racing.

Edited February 7, 201015 yr by WingZr0

Just "came across" Grand Prix? Dude! Where have you been?!

DON'T BLAME ME DUDE, i'm only 29 years old! My current generation only knows, "I gotta go race", and THAT was cause "The Fast and The Stupidest" ! Honestly I've been into cars all my life, literally ALL my life and suprised I never heard of that movie myself. Dude i'm laughing sooo hard right now and hereI thought I was in the minority. . . I guess I am ! LOL

Edited February 7, 201015 yr by WingZr0

Just finished the whole photo albume. Where was this at BTW? Love how the had photos of the cars, then the drivers, then all the cars with their drivers. Man that must've been fun to be there.

When it comes to the argument of which is the greatest racing movie of all time, I'm on the Grand Prix side. So much of that film is the real deal and the actors aren't all actors. Those are the real guys. Something like Grand Prix could never be made today. At this point, it is more and more of a documentary. Glad you were impressed. Another factoid; every racing accident depicted in Grand Prix actually happened at one point in F1 history.

The Trans Am Tribute was last November at the Petersen Automotive Museum.

Edited February 7, 201015 yr by 26th-Z

Now I'm sure most everyone is aware of the big car series but be advised that the 2.5 Trans Am small car series was won by, you guessed it, the Datsun 510. Nice job Brock Racing Enterprises. Not even a factory effort.

Should a copy of "Against All Odds" present itself, watch it. Catalogs 2 winning years in the series for the 510.

Edited February 7, 201015 yr by Bruce Palmer

Awesome, I remember watching these cars run at the Wine Country Classics @ Infineon. That was a hell of a thing to watch and hear!

Okay, as good as Grand Prix was, I have to nominate LeMans

I went to this event and it was epic. Brought my racing helmet and had it signed by almost all the guys there from Boris Said to Parnelli Jones.

We had lunch with Peter Brock, John Morton and Mac Tilton prior to the event.

Horst Kwech was great, gracious and still sharp as a tack. He admitted to altering his car to win at Laguna. 40 years later, and that was quite a bombshell...

What a great event, and thanks to Tony Adamowicz for getting the under two liter cars there!

Ron