The Trans-Am Championship (1970) | Full Documentary Archive Footage

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The 1970 Trans-Am Championship was the fifth series in SCCA's sports car racing championship, founded in 1966 by President John Bishop.
The championship was contested over eleven rounds with separate races at each round for Under 2 Liter and Over 2 Liter cars.
The series was best known for competition among American V8 coupes such as the Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro, Plymouth Barracuda, Mercury Cougar, AMC Javelin, Pontiac Firebird, and Dodge Challenger, driven by some of the most famous names in auto racing, like Mark Donohue, Parnelli Jones, Dan Gurney, Sam Posey, and Bob Tullius.
Five wins made Parnelli Jones Trans-Am's 1970 champion, with Ford winning its first title in two years.
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@choppertown 2 жыл бұрын

Wasn't this an epic season!? Are you a Trans-Am fan?

@robertgraybeard3750 2 жыл бұрын

Choppertown - loved it. I got to the 1970 Trans Am Race at Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. read about the rest. I owned a '69 Camaro and a '70 Mustang. SCCA was my second choice, actually, I was into NHRA - my daily driver was a '64 Dodge Polara - 4 speed, of course and I even put a 440 Magnum in that I bought out of a wrecked GTX.

@baltymora2 Жыл бұрын

Awesome 👌

@POLITICALHYBRID Жыл бұрын

Being a Donohue fan there were a few epic seasons right around that time! His mind wouldn't let his body retire.

@beyond_the_infinite2098 Жыл бұрын

Trans Am fan since 1970 at Laguna Seca. I was 15. 1970 was a great season and so was 71 with AMC winning the champoinship. I was an AMC fan driving my dad's 63 Rambler 880. lol

@joestephan1111 Жыл бұрын

The first year, 1966, was kind of interesting but at times odd. The factory teams were still coming together but not yet what they were by '67. Many different small cars ran independently. In the inaugural four hour enduro at Sebring future F1 World Champion Jackie Stewart drove a Lotus Cortina. The race was won by a newly introduced Plymouth Barracuda.

@Dnoltner Жыл бұрын

This was really cool video. I am 35 years old and just recently bought my first American muscle car, I am very proud of my 69 AMC javelin. These old videos make me even more excited that I have a piece of racing history. Great era for racing.

@beyond_the_infinite2098 Жыл бұрын

Very cool you bought a Javelin. Hang on to it. I wish I had kept my 70 AMX.

@brianwarner308 Жыл бұрын

that's awesome man, AMC are cool as hell

@MrChristopherHaas 9 ай бұрын

So many makes and models at their peak in 70’. The talent here….the rides….wow

@ooohhenrybmblm Жыл бұрын

I am so glad I discovered this era of American racing, especially the early years of Trans Am.

@jeffreyrumbold9363 8 ай бұрын

Love the typically-cheesy 70s American racing series documentary sound effects!

@rg500delta 2 ай бұрын

I think that same squealing tires soundtrack was on our disney "101 dalmations" LP!

@gregorymartinez4422 Жыл бұрын

Cool era of racing, I bought a 67 mustang because of these days, I had the suspension rebuilt four times and keep asking for Shelby's geometry and never got it, I had read up all I could, and used Branda's blueprint and alignment spec's, it became a parade every where I went, I sold this car for $6500 more than what I paid for it, the guy who bought it got the better deal, it was a deluxe coupe springtime yellow with a black top and black int., I paid $1700 and had $400 in parts, I still have the same dream of me driving that car in San Francisco... I'm currently looking for a pony but just the Shell's are 5 Gs, made in America !!!!

@2098elk 10 ай бұрын

Still this was the best racing serries ever. Owned 59 and 70 Boss 303 during my life. Great cars,

@geoffmcnew5863 16 күн бұрын

Several of these historic Trans Am cars are stabled at McGee Motorsports @ Sonoma...to see them in the flesh is truly awesome! Bud Moore's "skinny leaf" Boss 302s!!!

@tWIST1up 2 жыл бұрын

the days when you could go down to the dealers shop floor and purchase your favorite drivers car, and straight out of the box you had more machine than you knew what to do with. Innovations were at their finest with year to year changes that add HP and good handling that often had them race ready from the day you bought it ... :)

@choppertown 2 жыл бұрын

The good ol' days

@michaelmcgilligan 10 ай бұрын

they weren't t exactly race ready. TranaAm cars had a lot of engineering, acid dipped bodies, and factory"special parts"

@jmmmmj1 3 ай бұрын

Awesome stuff I remember as a twelve year old!

@xmotex Жыл бұрын

Man I love this stuff, especially seeing Donohue win at Bridgehampton, a track that I spent a lot of time at ad a kid.

@jimmyjackass1805 5 ай бұрын

I live 20 miles from Watkins Glen I always liked the T/A cars over Nasqueer. I have been going to the Glen since 1974.

@ORflycaster Жыл бұрын

Thank you interwebs! I was only month away from hatching when this was filmed, and it's a delight to watch 53yrs later.

@masonth252 2 ай бұрын

Just found this - great stuff. I was at the 70 race at Bryar in NH. The pit fire was right in front of us. I later raced there myself in FF. Donohue and Penske were a force - think 917-30!!

@garneauweld1100 23 күн бұрын

If PJ was going to take position, you had better give him a bit of room because he's going to take it. I have noticed these cars come in, after the end of the race, with quite a bit of body damage. Real fighters on the racetrack in American muscle. I love it!

@alexbilo3579 2 ай бұрын

I love the smell of racing exhaust in the morning

@8000RPM. Жыл бұрын

I get transfixed watching this and it takes my breath away.

@PenskePC17 8 ай бұрын

Love seeing videos of Bryar Motorsports Park in Loudon NH, it was demolished to build New Hampshire Motor Speedway

@jamiebowles4588 10 ай бұрын

Re: the comment @4:35 'John' apparently was unaware of the real Ford 'edge'- that free-breathing, high-revving Cleveland cylinder head.

@FasterNLouder Жыл бұрын

I believe the Mustang won by only 1 point in '70. The Javelin came back with the redesigned body style winning back to back in '71 and '72. And again in '76 (the last year the Trans Am series allowed the car to run).

@donnarolando3961 Жыл бұрын

Note: Ford, Chrysler, Chevrolet did not compete in '71-'72.

@FasterNLouder Жыл бұрын

@@donnarolando3961 I’m assuming you mean they didn’t have factory backing. Because they very much still competed in ‘71 onwards. I’m sure AMC who held like 8% market share had an unfairly high budget to compete with. 🙄 Not only that, but AMC was using a brand new, largely unproven car, where the other teams used cars that were factory funded for 2+ years and had all the big boy car company money to get them to that point.

@JamesWilliams-dj2bp Жыл бұрын

Actually, there was one more race after Kent which was in Riverside CA. Mustang finished one/two there and finished 19 points ahead of Javelin. Mustang beat-out Cougar in 1967 by one point.

@jrex3575 10 ай бұрын

Javelin= Ugly fast Car of the Trans Am Series! 😂

@FasterNLouder 10 ай бұрын

@@jrex3575 Ugly? That's subjective. But fast car of the Trans Am series, that's objectively correct, yes. lol

@joestephan1111 Жыл бұрын

Until 1972 there was no driving champion. The Trans-Am until then was a manufacturers championship only. The Under 2.5 Class initially ran together with the faster 5.0 liter class. I don't remember what year they were separated but it was most likely when the class grew in entrants, spectators and top name drivers from John Morton to NASCAR star Bobby Allison who drove a factory Datsun 510s on a team headed by ex-Shelby engineer Pete Brock. Brock, who as a GM designer, did several parts of what became the first Corvette Sting Ray concept car and later designed the Cobra Daytona, actually drove for his own first Trans-Am team. It was a single car 2.5 class Japanese Hino during their short-lived effort to sell cars in the US. That came in the series first year 1966

@DeGraefAutoSpecialty 3 ай бұрын

...many Thanks for sharing...Love it.......

@getfasterE36 11 ай бұрын

This is so cool. Almost makes me want a 1970s muscle car, almost.

@kenxiong6830 Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@baltymora2 Жыл бұрын

They sound wonderful

@ITProjectManagerMan 5 ай бұрын

Awesome

@PeterKKraus Жыл бұрын

14 minutes isn't a full documentary 😁

@robostyle9773 2 жыл бұрын

Cool video, some sound effects were fake but cool nonetheless

@choppertown 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@jamesleyda365 10 ай бұрын

On the dragstrip it would be MOPAR kicking ass..... And in Stockcar

@Swampfox612 26 күн бұрын

Wow, back when Pacific Raceway was relevant.

@irocitZ Жыл бұрын

Anyone know what motor Chevrolet used in 70?

@somewhere6 Жыл бұрын

302 cubic inch V8 with a 4 barrel carburetor.

@Giitzerland Жыл бұрын

de-stroked 350's(302ci)

@irocitZ Жыл бұрын

@@Giitzerland I wasn't sure how that worked because the 1970 Camaro Z28 had the LT1 350, in 69 Trans Am cars had to be under 305 ci. So in 70 Camaro could run with the 350? It's a little confusing, I think I'm asking the question right..

@Jbennyho 10 ай бұрын

@@irocitZThe Trans Am had a 302 or 305 (I don’t recall which) cubic inch limit. Not everyone had a 302. They modified existing engines. Chrysler products manipulated cylinder bore and de-stroked a 318 for example, probably taking a crank from a 273.

@williamford9564 7 ай бұрын

Great film. And I bet if anyone would have told you Vic Elford once won a Trans Am race, you'd be bucking to send him or her to an insane asylum.

@pn665 3 ай бұрын

um...they forgot a few races..

@Giitzerland Жыл бұрын

The Javelin/AMX was just too good to let it survive.

@uhfnutbar1 7 ай бұрын

has Carfilms try to claim copyright on you? i have a copy of this film no water mark and he had youtube remove it and when i question him , He said his father was one of the camera men making the movie? So fkin what ,, according to him he own copyright and was selling CD I call bull shit