How about a page with pace cars? Indy pace cars and the factory replicas produced. I've done a few. Here is a 69 396 pace car on my rotisserie and at Barret Jackson I hate restoring cars. No creativity. This is my chevy Indy 500 pace truck, yours truly behind the wheel. I can't find a pic of my 78 vette pace car. Too long ago. I'd love to see more of them.
Think of it. In the generations to come, you were the first on the HAMB to post a Pony car. A defining moment comes along, you either define it or it defines you.
I’m not a Mustang guy but I’ve seen a few I would like to have, most notably a silver 66 fastback that had big n little Cragar S/S rims, 4 or 5” wide up front and 60 series tires out back. Stance was perfect. Not sure what was under the hood but that car looked ready for trouble. And… it was a 71 429 SCJ Mustang that was the first in the F.A.S.T. series to run a 9 second 1/4 mile with 60 series polyglass tires no less!
I love that this came up in May knowing that the best race ever is just days away There is a festival car on eBay right now that has been slightly butchered but is #33 and could be taken anyway you wanted to go. But for me I don’t know if I could modify one just because I am a purist when it comes to Indy and really wasn’t to happy when NASCAR used the track in their series. But that’s a whole nother story
My dad bought a 78 Corvette Pace car brand new. Ordered it months in advance and put down a $500 deposit. The car came in and they wouldn't give it to him, apparently they were hard to get and the owner's son wanted it. He sued them and won! They had to give him the car. They were so popular he only had it a few months and sold it at a profit at the Bloomington Il. Corvette show.
Found some pictures, sorry they are poor quality. I found the car in a river bank, knew right away it was a Pace car as they carried paint code C for Pace Car white. Drug it home but then sold it and restored it for the new owner. as found... finished 2 years later New owner and that's me in the black coat, I'm 71 now. I tried to add more pictures, but every time they come up upside down, so just have the two for now.
Wow, what a find. I don't know that I have seen one outside of magazines and internet. I had a buddy that restored a 67 Camaro pace. Also white and blue. Americas trans am colors. Personally, I never cared much for the white and orange 69...and that interior! Egad.
Now this is cool. I love my '68 442 but I would swap for this one I am afraid. "Get your motor runnin"
The Mustang Pace Car was part of the 50 give aways to Ford Dealers, Ford had at the time. I don't remember but it came from the northwest somewhere. We also had a 69 Camaro Pace Car up here, and I have to agree... that orange plaid interior was a bit loud!
Ya think? I have a buddy with a yella 69 RS/SS with Yellow and black hounds tooth...it may be worse then this Pace car interior.
Wow, from the river bank to a car show trophy, that's awesome! I saw a 1968 Firebird hardtop sitting alongside the Loup River years ago, meant to go back and get it but they had an epic flood out there a few years later.
Not mine but I think this is the best-looking Pace car of the bunch. At least top 5. It is funny, they cost 20k new in 1978, they still cost 20K unless it is some uber low mile car. GM made too many. I'd buy another one if one of you is holding. L82, 4 speed, or don't bother me. On topic or off topic, the car is drop dead sexy!
Another "when I was fifteen" (not in band camp either) post. Guy moved in a couple houses up the street from me, didn't pay much attention until the 69 Indy Pace Car Camaro showed up, man, that thing was like a neon Vegas sign, wow! I can't believe I've never owned a Camaro because in my senior year I had three high school pals with Z/28's. A 1968, a 1969 and a 1970, was quite a sight in my driveway, wish I had taken more photos back then.
This was the livery behind my pace truck I posted above. Looked better as a truck The Boyd "Junk Yard Dogs" not so much. This truck had the worse turning radius in the entire world. I sold it to some gent north of the border, eh?
I bought a new black S-10 Blazer in 1984, lowered it, put a set of those Corvette wheels on it, they had been freshly polished, wasnt easy though as the Blazer had metric lug studs and nobody made metric lugnuts to fit the holes in the wheels. Just so happened that I had just bought a new lathe and tooling (big $$$) so I made a set of lugnuts and had them plated, looked nice, looked but couldnt find any photos, really wish I was more of a camera guy back then.
I’ve always like those 69 orange and white Camaro pace cars. In 77-78, there was a slightly shady used car dealer in town got ahold of one, without the decals on it. Loved it, especially with the white top down! I tried to buy it, but his wife claimed it and wouldn’t sell. A year or so later, she went off the deep end and killed him after she caught him with another woman, not the first time from what I heard. Bank foreclosed on the lot and their property and everything got sold. Believe it or not, she got off on a temporary insanity plea! But she still had to stay in a mental facility a few years, she really did go nuts. Never did find out where the Camaro went…
Agree, that was one of the better looking pace cars and yeah they built to many. Also too many people thought they were gonna make a fortune on them when they got older. So many practically new ones still for sale. The one Papa's Toy's had in Cornelius only had like 8 miles on it. Dealer Salesman bought it and parked it in his living room until it was bought for the collection.
I always preferred the 67 Camaro pace car over the 69. I like the white and blue combo. Although the closest I got to a 69 Camaro Pace car was the 1997 tribute edition. They paced the NASCAR Brickyard 400 and copied the 69.Only real change was white interior. Some had all white, this car had white with houndstooth inserts. I bought this car my senior year of high school. I learned really quick that opti-spark was the worst idea Chevy every had and white interior in a daily driver meant cleaning the driver seat every week before going out Friday.
Agreed! The white and blue livery was my favorite. I think the 69 Camaro would have looked better in white and blue with blue hounds tooth innards. Orange? Seriously?
Yeah the orange was a little much, but it stood out on TV. Blue houndstooth would have been great in a Camaro, I dont know why they never offered it, Trucks got it 71. While the bright orange was never my thing, I love the Yellow houndstooth that was available in 69.
You may be cool but are you "General Chuck Yeager with the Pace Corvette he drove in the '86 Indy" cool?
Interesting side note: All yellow 86 Vettes were considered pace cars, coupes and hardtops. But the hardtops didn’t get the decal package, that only went with the convertibles. We had a 86 hardtop for a few years.
I saw two 78 Pace vettes today alone. The 78 collector vette is actually worth more resale than the Pace but the pace looks cooler IMHO.
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