Then it gets really noisy. Nearing the engine's 7500-rpm limiter, the entire car -- a 1969 Camaro Z/28 from the original Trans-Am race series of four-plus decades ago -- quakes and shudders and ...

Mark Donohue was driving a 1967 Chevy Camaro Z/28 in the Trans Am series for Roger Penske Racing in 1967. As an engineer, Donohue made the ideal racing driver. He knew what made cars go faster and ...

which pits a Chevy Camaro race car designed for Trans Am competition against a tuned RWD Nissan GT-R. Let’s start with the fan favorite. Representing the domestic side of his competition is a ...

Few cars embody the golden era of American motorsport like the Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Trans-Am racers ... collectors a chance to own a piece of racing legend. The Camaro Z28 rose to prominence ...

it's one of six Trans-Am Sunoco race cars developed by Roger Penske and Donohue. The latter won the first Trans-Am race for Chevrolet in this Camaro at the Marlboro Motor Raceway. This Z28 was the ...

Chevrolet, in particular, highlighted this Camaro SS Trans-Am racecar which runs production ... These parts will make a Camaro SS a more potent race car for presumably much less than six figures.

One of the greatest examples of nameplate, the 1967 Camaro Z28 Trans-Am race car, will be auctioned off during Mecum’s upcoming Kissimmee sale. And “The Lightweight,” as it is better known ...

In 1968, Mark Donohue and Roger Penske won a championship in the middle of the golden age of Trans-Am racing with a very special Chevrolet Camaro. That car was the "Lightweight" Z/28 — a car ...

The Historic Trans Am racing series features many muscle cars devoid of power steering, but the Chevrolet Camaro models have this feature. This item that isn’t an advantage at most tracks can be ...

and straights that was ideal for lightweight cars with lots of power and good handling. The first couple of years of Trans Am racing was dominated by the Camaro, but included some Firebirds on the ...

But while Pontiac would spin the car its own way, the Camaro was almost fully ... acid bath for the body shell, to be racing dynamite in the SCCA Trans-Am series. During the 1967 season, Donohue ...

With Trans-Am racing and factory-offered performance ... In spite of cheater tires, the Mustang lost to the Camaro. Both cars were unabashedly cool, however. Sam Posey, our test driver, was ...