1970 Trans Am film clip

[Ghoste]

Found this youtube video of Donahue/Penske that is apparently from a 1970 documentary called "Trans Am Countdown".  Anyone heard of it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPW1Zoy-e-8

[TruckDriver]

Pretty cool! I love the older Trans Am cars. This is a cool site too http://www.trans-amseries.com/

I even made a replica of the Jerry Titus Trans Am on Forza 4 using photos of the real car.

[Ghoste]

 

[Aero426]

That's new stuff I had not seen before.

[Ghoste]

Nor I.  Not that I have a large collection of Trans Am material but as a fan of both it and Donahue I sure would like to know if that 4 minutes is all there is or if its part of a much larger group of footage.

[Aero426]

That one would seem to be an AMC promo film.    There were quite a few different Penske related 16mm films through the years.   Almost every year there was a different one.   The oldest I have is when Roger was still driving the Zerex Cooper.    Some of the later ones covered all their racing programs so it would have Trans-Am and the endurance racing stuff when they ran the Lola T-70s.

[Ghoste]

That would be interesting.  Did he do it with the Porsche stuff too?

[Aero426]

I will have to look, but I think there is something on the Porsches.

[Ghoste]

The Donahue Porsche was at Amelia the year you brought the Superbird but I don't think it was ever taken to the show field.

[Aero426]

That was a weird deal.  I heard the 917 owner was was PO'ed or something to that effect.   Is that true?

[Ghoste]

Don't know.  It was there for the 917 presentation in the ballroom and as soon that was over he hustled it out of there so there could be some truth to it.  I managed to get a few photos of it so I was happy.