SVRA Historic Trans Am Race 2 Mission Foods Sonoma SpeedTour

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[@jerryrust5381]

This looks like fun I would love to drive these cars high revving v8 ,manual tranny,weak brakes ,real drivers I must admit the Chevy Camaros look bad ass Also the green challenger is sweet

[@donhammer186]

The racing was a good show but, I'll tell you what, the man waving that checkered flag stole the show! Haha

[@jimmymccormick142]

Go get em Ford powered forever baby keep on pulling the knot out of them boties and the horns off them mopars l love it

[@charleswaynewright2042]

I don't remember these cameras doing much back in the day it was Ford mopar and AMC that dominated Trans am racing

[@awboat]

Since Obama bought GM out they've been cheatin.

[@747fa]

Strange. For some reason I get the feeling this has a "wrestling" type scenario.

[@stevecanyon23]

Nice video but not enough sound of the race engines.

[@maxskullic9879]

Someone like me has no chance of driving one of these.... I have the skills, just not the money... being disabled, the only race I can hope for now is a wheelchair race! What I get for being born with a back that is crushing itself and having hopes and dreams of being the best racing driver in the world.... I get depressed. Skills have nothing to do with being a racecar driver, only money. If it was all about skill, I would have been in a racecar before I could drive a normal car on the roads. I started out at 4yo on go-karts and was at the race track with my dad when he was racing every race back in the 90s. I started having back issues in high school and just got worse and worse. I never even came close to getting a car of my own and all my skills were wasted being a courier until I got hit breaking my back even more and taking me off the road for good. I can still drive but it hurts too much. Lost my job and all my savings for a racing car.... Life isn't fair.... and if you are broken, you might as well find a hole and crawl in it and (redacted). Living in pain with no hope, no dreams and being unable to take care of yourself, is no life! Its hell. I'll be 40 at the end of this month and have nothing to show for it. I thought I would have already been one of the best drivers by now. Watching this just broke me too much. I need to have a chance to prove to myself that I do have the skills.... but its too late now. I know I'll never have that chance. (race drivers have no idea of how lucky they are)

[@stenovitz]

I surely acknowledge your POV and not at least your emotions. Some of us feel extremely lucky just for once having tried a real classic car allowed to get it some fresh air, even for just 15 mins in an entire lifecycle. Myself now in the 50ies and spinal issues, however not in a wheelchair. 25 years ago I could have ended up in single seater Reynard SF84+87 national FF2000 series, due to I got just 10 mins of a tryout but beat the class B champion laptime, this without preparation. But my main problem as a child, teen and young man was totally lack of self-confidence speaking socially. I preferred the role as a clown of which people put me into due to my introversity, but didn't help me alot by the time this team seriously invited me to the national series, but with a setback that I had to do the economical backup for my seat and every damage on car was on my shoulders. Everybody else would just have used their contacts in getting touch with right personal sponsors, but I had none - of which by the time put my emotions in quite similar position as you describes when watching this splendid vid. However, for past 25 years I've used simracing of classic, vintage and antique racing cars and -tracks a like a plaster on the wound. And it actually helps quite a bit down the road, as it takes me here from Europe to the USA, Australia, Argentina or from 2023 to 1970, 1959, 1937 or 1916 with just a new sim loading screen. Furthermore - and now unfortunately I can't find it for you - about 6-9 years ago I witnessed here on YT a very severely disabled guy who used his mouth and a straw for sim racing. And it wasn't just with gameboy digital input - no, analog variable input, just like hard core simracers. I have just come from an unforgettable video of unicorn jazz pianist Michel Petrucciani, another severely disabled (glass bones, worst attack in the arms, which was what he used as a means of living) who did not lose himself in what he could not do. I wouldn't say it's easy. You just don't get lost in the limitations you have, physical as well as psychological, but just live life. Currently, I live life to the extreme - just by watching videos like these :-) Cheers from Denmark

[@jaratt85]

A 5 litre GTO.. what a weird idea.. that's a whole lot of car for such a small engine.

[@jeffwheeler303]

I had a 65 Buick Skylark with a 300" V8, stock 250 horsepower. It weighed 3200lb, not much more than a Camaro. The Pontiac body would be the same weight, but the engine would weigh about hundred pounds more as the Buick V8 weighed less than 500 lb. A-bodies also had better suspensions with 4 wheel coil springs and control arms compared to archaic leaf springs. Pontiac had a mystery 303 that never made production and a 301 that did, Herb Adams was the head of Pontiac, so who knows what special engines he had access to. A destroked 326 would be the easiest way to get 5 liter

[@moparedtn]

Where's the AAR bunch?