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Bernice Loui
Walking around the pit area at Laguna Seca, this caught the eyes. Turned out to be Mark Donahue's TransAm Camaro# 6.
Standing about four three to four feet from the front right fender and got this video:
Spoke to the crew chief about this Camaro. Legend has it that these bodies were acid dipped to lower weight. The acid dipping was so extreme, the roof was crinkly. Penske & Donahue & crew hid this from SCCA officials by covering the roof with a vinyl top. They also used a faker tech car, they would roll the SCCA legal car into tech for inspection, they swap cars before the race. SCCA officials knew this was going on yet turned a blinded eye to all that was happening and they were not the only teams that was doing this. This and many other factoids about these cars were verified by my conversation with the crew chief of Camaro No. 6.
Mark Donahue is one of my all time fave driver-engineers, right up there with Bruce McLaren, Colin Chapman, Dallara, and others.
Bernice
Standing about four three to four feet from the front right fender and got this video:
Spoke to the crew chief about this Camaro. Legend has it that these bodies were acid dipped to lower weight. The acid dipping was so extreme, the roof was crinkly. Penske & Donahue & crew hid this from SCCA officials by covering the roof with a vinyl top. They also used a faker tech car, they would roll the SCCA legal car into tech for inspection, they swap cars before the race. SCCA officials knew this was going on yet turned a blinded eye to all that was happening and they were not the only teams that was doing this. This and many other factoids about these cars were verified by my conversation with the crew chief of Camaro No. 6.
Mark Donahue is one of my all time fave driver-engineers, right up there with Bruce McLaren, Colin Chapman, Dallara, and others.
Bernice