[FIAracer]

Trans-Am Racers: I missed out on the earlier chat about cars with race history vs no race history. Yes, the Historic Trans Am group are strict about previous race history and in the old days of SVRA there was no way you could enter a car in Grp 6 without proven pre-1973 road race history for any of their events. However exceptions have been made. For example, Kar Kraft (Fords R&D race fabrication facility) built a few Sportsroof Mustangs for the 69 Trans Am season. One of these prototype Boss 302's was a black/gold car and was delivered to Smokey Yunick for continued race prep. The "intent" was to run it in the 1969 Trans Am race season, but before Smokey finished the car, Ford Motor Company decided instead to enter it in NASCAR's Baby Grand series. This car never raced in Trans Am or any road race, however being a Kar Kraft car and a siginificant piece of race history, it has been a regular entrant at the current Historic Trans Am Reunions on the west coast and recently here in CT at Lime Rock Park. I helped source misc parts for it's restoration and I have to say, the stuff that KK and Yunick did to this car is amazing. Yes, I know this is a Camaro site, I'll offset this Ford post with some Trans Am Camaro subject matter at some point. Honest.