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Old 08-18-2008, 05:00 PM
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Some of the Trans Am cars











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I'll take #15 please! Thanks Joe as always keeping us inform home and away!!
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And I'll take the 74, great pics
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Can Am, coolest race series ever.
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Originally Posted by John Shiels
I'll take #15 please! Thanks Joe as always keeping us inform home and away!!
Better open your wallet John, that's the original Penske-Donohue Z28, not a repro
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The T.V. doesn't do the place justice. I was there on Sunday. My brother took me to L.S. for my birthday. We flew to Sandiago on Sat. and played Torre pines and flew to Monteray on Sunday to see the races. What some great looking cars. Today we played a round at Pebble Beach and then played at Spyglassfor my birthday.What a great brother and friend.
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Great photos, thanks! Can Am and old Trans Am are definitely high on the coolness chart.
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Did you get to take any video?
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Some races will be shown on speed in Sept or Oct. The Trans Am race was the best, the Can Am was good with Rahal moving up.

The Sunoco Penske car is 1 mill plus in value. The Can Am are a lot less because few can drive and survive them.
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Originally Posted by sundiego
Some races will be shown on speed in Sept or Oct. The Trans Am race was the best, the Can Am was good with Rahal moving up.

The Sunoco Penske car is 1 mill plus in value. The Can Am are a lot less because few can drive and survive them.
Totally agree on the Trans-Am race being the best ... five lead changes in 10 laps between three cars. We were up at the Corkscrew and the place would go nuts every time the lead group crested the hill and a different car was out front. Once a group of cars went down through the Corkscrew three abreast! One in the dirt, one on line and the other on the outside line ... and they actually made it through without contact or incident ... WOW.

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Originally Posted by BrianCunningham
Did you get to take any video?
no video, I have enough problems trying to take pics of cars standing still
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I need to go to that next year. Looks awesome.

BTW - they are supposed to be running the Chaparral 2 today.


I'll be posting pics and video
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Remember watching those guys at Nelson Ledges back in the day and was walking over the bridge to the infield when they took the green flag and I thought the bridge was going to collapse when the field thundered under...
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I need to get some of my pictures posted, but here is a link to a site that has a lot of pictures from the various races.

http://dmtimaging.com/historics2008.htm

Larry
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Everytime we cross that bridge at Nelson's I swear it is going to collapse

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