Inspecting a TransAm-Converted IROC Car

hundreds of pictures spacing pop rivets looking at DSE you know holes in the a pillars all those things because you know numbers get swapped paint jobs get swapped but pieces of the chassis and timing don't get swapped and we had two of the original mechanics that worked at Cook Woods come here and take a look at the car and verify it huh was it easier to like did they modify it to the point where it's easier to restore it back to the that configuration than on doing what they did to make it irck again yeah and because we have irck cars we felt it would be more valuable to maintain the history of George's last win but cook Woods did several things you can see that car's only got two right side door bars in it where where all the others have three they took that out they extended the nose and and put the radiator in on an angle they also moved the frame rail out on the left front subframe part to add a power steering box so there were several structural things that they changed when they changed it to a Trans Am car they really went on a lightning kick cut off a lot of the body panels the steel stuff put on fiberglass stuff everything they could do to make it lighter interesting this one and this is the other cook Woods car this is the bill wer car that you asked me is this the car that Nikki L drove this this is the car that Nikki La started a race with the whole story behind that was Nikki La was paid to come over run an irck race Bernie eckelstone told him no didn't want you to do that on the pace laps somehow Nikki L burned the clutch out of this car never actually took the the green flag got credited for last place but this is the number the yellow number two when it was an iral car that Nicki lder drove so since then it's had again several different lives it's now owned by Bill Warner who was the originator the actually the founder of the Amilia Island concore so people who have been having these cars have been sending them to you to be prepared to take to Lime Rock yeah we've been doing we've got a bunch of them that we've been doing you know this is uh again one of the iro Firebirds uh ran from 96 to 2006 several different people drove this car right now this car is is in Livery of the U Jeff Gordon's only win it it uh in an IR Ro car so obviously J my buddy we want to make sure that he's represented and this car we're actually taking this car because this is another one of those kind of barn find cars we want people to see it this is one of the…