The genuine possibility of more rear-drive muscle returning to the race tracks of America is certainly welcome, but without AMC Javelins slipping through the apexes, things just won’t ever be completely right again. Mark Donohue forever etched the red, white, and blue into American Motors when he took the Trans-Am series in 1971 and 1972 behind the wheel Roger Penske-prepared AMC Javelins. The good news is all is not lost. Thanks to the tireless efforts of the Historic Trans-Am Group, the legend of American Motors Corporation Trans-Am history lives on not static in a museum, but moving around the race track – complete with high octane gasoline, side exit exhaust, and an overabundance of chin and deck spoilers. Getting up close to these beasts in action is immensely entertaining, and makes it easy to gain respect for the driving and engineering skills required to muscle one of these long nose monsters out in front at the finish.
Head on over to the Historic Trans-Am Group for more information and hundreds of photos of Trans-Am racing action.
Very cool, but make mine the Bobby Allison NASCAR Matador.