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Todd Covini
03-25-2009, 06:56 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn0OOSQPXT8&feature=related

(Misty looks funny @ 1:40) :wink:

-=- T
Wirtz
03-25-2009, 07:27 PM
Great music :?

I think bringing Trans Am back along the lines of the World Challenge ruleset would have been better than the tube frame cars (although the tube cars are cool). Get the big three back together for one more romp before they all go under.
Wirtz
03-25-2009, 07:57 PM
(Misty looks funny @ 1:40) :wink:


Thanks how you start a race!

Just saw that Michael is in this video as well. 3:45 :lol:
AllZWay
03-25-2009, 08:12 PM
Good Stuff... I saw Brian L. at 4:09 .
michaelmosty
03-25-2009, 08:12 PM
(Misty looks funny @ 1:40) :wink:


Thanks how you start a race!

Just saw that Michael is in this video as well. 3:45 :lol:
I knew that would be brought up soon. :x
mitchntx
03-25-2009, 08:23 PM
The world through Bryan's eyes at 4:20 ...
BryanL
03-25-2009, 08:55 PM
Dang-Trans Am brought out the babes!!

I thought the same thing that Mosty was on at 3:45 and me at 4:09.

Mitch-the plate under my eye corrected my vision and it was only double most of the time. That is until a few bud lights and I would have to cover my left eye just like James Edward did when he became James Edward Scissorhands.
jeffburch
03-25-2009, 09:30 PM
What track was that?
Mmmm, Hamm's beer!

jb
Todd Covini
03-25-2009, 09:46 PM
What track was that?
Mmmm, Hamm's beer!

jb

My guess is Riverside.
mitchntx
03-25-2009, 09:50 PM
Too many trees ... too much green ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV8Tc9h9Vc0
Todd Covini
03-25-2009, 09:53 PM
Hey!!! Balloons in a bag @ 00:39!?!?!?
New standing start alternative!!!??!?! :lol:
Wirtz
03-25-2009, 09:55 PM
Yeah, I was trying to figure the track as well. Some of it looks like Watkins Glen. Part of it looks like the exit from the back straight into the Boot. The front straight is possible too, but it would have to have been before the inside bleachers and garages were built. I have no idea when that was.

But I pretty much grew up at that track in the 70's and 80's.
mitchntx
03-25-2009, 09:57 PM
Did you notice that Pontiacs started 1-2 ...

The Glen makes sense. The corner exit where the porsche runs a little wide looks like the current exit onto the front staright.
Todd Covini
03-25-2009, 09:59 PM
Did you notice that Pontiacs started 1-2 ...

You're not supposed to count the first two cars with drama queens in the back seat waving to the crowd. :roll:
Todd Covini
03-25-2009, 10:11 PM
Now you guys got me analyzing this film.
I think I may have unlocked a hidden mystery.
Was there ever an AMC Scrambler competing in Trans Am?
See 1:29, on the outside row...looks to be Car #11.
That ain't no Camaro or Mustang or Javelin...
Todd Covini
03-25-2009, 10:13 PM
The Glen makes sense.

FINALLY, you guys are on the same page!
jeffburch
03-25-2009, 10:19 PM
Yeah, I was trying to figure the track as well. Some of it looks like Watkins Glen. Part of it looks like the exit from the back straight into the Boot. The front straight is possible too, but it would have to have been before the inside bleachers and garages were built. I have no idea when that was.

But I pretty much grew up at that track in the 70's and 80's.

Thought they said 1969.
I was 7.
I was thinking Road America, Watkins or Limerock.
Maybe Mosport.
jb
BlueFirePony
03-26-2009, 01:24 AM
[quote="Todd Covini"]Now you guys got me analyzing this film.
I think I may have unlocked a hidden mystery.
Was there ever an AMC Scrambler competing in Trans Am?
See 1:29, on the outside row...looks to be Car #11.
I was gonna say an Alfa GT but they did not make them in '69 and the grill is all wrong anyway - and I don't think the Alfetta had such a large rear deck - I was looking for Alfa's cause they were supposed to have been in the '69 races. Dunno..seems to not have he deck lid of a Javelin. Damn you Todd...I've watched that damn segment 5 times now. ;)
Al Fernandez
03-26-2009, 08:00 AM
Its car 10, not 11. 11 is a little later on, inside, and that is a camaro. Cougar Eliminator maybe?
evarner
03-26-2009, 09:02 AM
Lime Rock
Todd Covini
03-26-2009, 09:28 AM
So far we've got a Scrambler or Eliminator at Lime Rock or Watkins Glenn with the cake-eaters starting on P1 & P2.

I'll have to analyze it again this evening. :evil:
mitchntx
03-26-2009, 09:37 AM
cake-eaters starting on P1 & P2.


No Fords, Pontiacs ... and at Riverside.
evarner
03-26-2009, 11:33 AM
Might have been at several tracks, but Lime Rock is one of them for sure. Connecticut plates in the crowd.
BSharp
03-26-2009, 11:51 AM
This is what racing should be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY5zdnGvT0c&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDAK4jBKmow&feature=related
Todd Covini
03-26-2009, 10:08 PM
This is what racing should be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY5zdnGvT0c&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDAK4jBKmow&feature=related

That was awesome, Bud! Great Race!
That big, bad Camaro was holding up the little, nimble Ford fo sho. :lol:

Hey....there seemed to be a lot of AMC S/C Ramblers in that race, weren't there? :wink: