Trans Am Countdown

After watching the Chaparral video, I got wondering if there was any cool Trans Am video floating around the youtubes. I found this restored clip of a film called Trans Am Countdown that was filmed at the Daytona 24 Hour race in 1970. The are some great shots of the Javelin and cool interviews with Mark Donohue and a very young looking Roger Penske. Someone should have told Penske to visit the porta john before an interview! It’s not often you see a future captain of industry doing the pee dance!

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#1 Britt Krebs on 01.03.07 at 6:59 am

A very, very cool era of road racing. Unfortunately Donahue and Revson DNF’d in that race. The John Wyer Gulf/Porsche 917’s dominated and finished 1-2.

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