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Old 12-05-2002, 09:32 PM
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Default Re: Trans Am Racers

JeffH,
Being a "Camaro guy" maybe you remember a Camaro driven (in Trans-Am) by Carl Shaeffer (late 60`s/early 70`s out of Shaeffer farms in southern Illinois)it was a`69 later raced (for many years)in SCCA by Beloit WI radio personality Jerry Dunbar and sponsored by Super America gas stations?? One year at the SCCA runoffs (Road Atlanta) the back side of the track was dry but on the front half it was raining well a bunch of cars got wrecked coming down the hill leading onto the front straight, one being the Dunbar Camaro, the car was totaled!! it was bent so bad it sat on three wheels and the roof looked like a tent in the middle, well Dunbar sells it to a guy who strips it and TAKES IT TO THE JUNK YARD!! Title and all!! BUT he sells different parts to two or three guys, the tag went one way and the roll bar went another and the front frame another, one guy even offered this guy $50 for the Super America poster of Dunbar that was hanging in the guy`s son`s room!! I have heard there are two or three guys restoring the ex Shaeffer farms/ Jerry Dunbar Camaro. And Dunbar has told me he had lost the SCCA log book. So yes cars are "recreated" and I know all this because I got the Revolution/Compomotive modular wheels off the car. ...redvetracr
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