70 Trans Am championship

[302 Hi Pro]

Shelby Race prep 1969 Boss 302

 

[TymeSlayer]

I'm feeling the love now!

 

[TorqueAholic]

Cool stuff. I l grew up in Trois-Rivieres, Canada and we were fortunate enough to be on the Trans-Am / Can-Am / Formula Atlantic schedules. I started going around 1974, it was called the Molson Grand-Prix in those days and I was 9 at the time. I pretty much went every year until my family moved to the US in 1983. We used to pedal our bikes over to the track.

Those were different days. Trans-Am and Can-Am were my favorites. Part of the reason I've always loved the Mustang. I saw all the greats there and many of those became F1 stars too : Donohue, Alan Jones, Elliot Forbes Robinson, Keke Rosberg, Jacques Laffite, John Paul Sr. Price Cobb, Gilles Villeneuve (His home town was 40 minutes from my home) James Hunt, Bobby Rahal, Al Holbert, Patrick Depailler, Patrick Tambay, Jean-Pierre Jarrier, Bertil Roos, Vittorio Brambilla and many others.

Watching Keke drift the monster Can-Am car dirt track style around the Ryan hairpin lap after lap was quite the spectacle. Same deal with John Paul Sr. in the Porsche 935 Trans-Am car : The story was that they couldn't find a limited slip diff that could handle the juice produced by the turbo motor. So they welded the diff and the only way round tight corners was to throw it broadside dirt track style. Super fun to watch.

 

[TMSBOSS]

I own a few die casts of the 69 and 70 cars. Wish I had full scale. Maybe a tribute some day.