Bob Clucas

Hi Carl, As you can imagine, this has been a very time consuming (and FUN!) project that's been 4 years in the making. It will take me a while to put together the "story" on finding this car and hoping it was a real IMSA car, starting the research and finally bringing it back to life. I'll try and put together the story so I can post it here along with more photo's. I have a restoration / documentation book i've put together and showed the true Z fans at the races, it's really neat. Be patient!

Hi All, I'm new to this forum. I recently finished the restoration of a 1973 240Z IMSA GTU car. The car was raced in IMSA with several different liveries from 1977 - 1979, but I chose the Anheuser Busch Natural Light configuration as raced in 1978 and 1979. The car was part of the initial Anheuser Busch sponsorship of auto racing in 1978. The other cars in the Anheuser Busch stable were the famous 240Z Budweiser cars of Paul Newman and Sam Posey, the Budweiser Indy car driven by Pancho Carter and this car, initially driven by James Brolin. The Budweiser cars were supposed to win championships, the Anhueser Busch car was to introduce Natural Light and sell beer! I've now "raced" the car in 4 events, including being accepted to the Monterey Historics last month with Dave Stone and his Bob Sharp 1970 240Z! We competed in the GTU/GTO/GTX group with some pretty special other cars. I've attached (hopefully) some of the shots from the weekend. Enjoy! Bob Clucas