Showing posts with label Trans Am. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trans Am. Show all posts

Friday, June 3, 2011

Racing, click on these for full size,



Though Smokey set several speed and endurance records with the car at Bonneville, with both a 302 cubic inch and a 396 cubic inch engine, it never won a race while Yunick owned it. It was later sold to Don Yenko, who did win several races.

A stock appearing Camaro, Smokey had acid-dipped the body panels and installed thinner glass to reduce weight, tilted the front end down and the windshield back for aerodynamics, widened the fenders, z'ed the front frame, and sucked the floorpan up to lower the car. The driprails were even brought closer to the body for a tiny aerodynamic improvement. Don't forget that the most common thing Smokey did to all his cars, was to streamline them for reduces air drag, all the underside was modified to reduce angles and flow air around flat spots. All of the aerodynamic things Smokey did are readily attributed to his experiences as a B-17 pilot, and the knowledge gained from airplane design and dynamics.

trans am racing, click on these for full size





Sunday, October 3, 2010

I found this funny, maybe it's a poke at the Firebird, maybe it's a visual call out to the rare Firebird TA of the musclecar era


Maybe I'm still partial to juvenile humor like writing on dirty cars "Wash Me" and this similar writing in the filth made me laugh

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Cobra Trans Am, looks like it's a 1967 Shelby GT 350

I don't know a thing about this, but I would love to know more. Is it just a failed attempt at a private racing plan that never made it to the track during the Trans Am series?

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Inside historic trans am racing

http://www.jbaracing.com/hmsa68/ for lots on the Trans am race cars, and in particular, the restoration of the Hinchliff/Ross Shelby GT-350 Mustang