1982 NASCAR Daytona 500 Trans Am Pace Car
A Brief History:
NASCAR Daytona 500 Special Edition Trans Am
Debuting at the January 30th, 1982 Daytona 24-hour IMSA endurance race was the all new NASCAR Pace car... a sparkling red '82 Trans am. It would pace all Daytona NASCAR events for the year, as well as those at Talladega, Charlotte, Rockingham, Darlington, North Wilkesboro, Martinsville, and Bristol.
"Push the pedal to the floor and never lift, the car was set up so well that it never tried to slide or drift. It required no fighting or sawing on the steering wheel. If you took the right 'line' into a corner, no adjustment of the wheel was needed until you were back onto the straightaway", stated Hot Rod magazine editor Len Emanuelson. Thanks mostly to the substitution of a 5.7 liter (350) V-8 engine and a four-speed automatic overdrive transmission with a lock-up torque converter for the cars production powertrain, Emanuelson found it capable of 7.5 second 0-60 acceleration and a top speed of 145.6 mph.
If anyone has any other documentation or information about the '82 NASCAR Daytona 500 Trans Am, please email it to: fbodywarehouse@aol.com ... thank you !!
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