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In-depth Look at the Blue Second-Gen IROC Camaro Restoration

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Ray Evernham's IROC Racecar Collection: Driven By The Most Legendary Names In Racing

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Ray Evernham presents a light blue second-generation IROC Camaro (number 4) that is currently undergoing restoration. This car boasts a significant racing history, having competed in the IROC series from 1977 to 1980 and notably driven to victory at Riverside by road racing legend Peter Gregg. The car, originally restored by IROC staff in the 1980s, is being prepared for vintage racing events. Ray points out period-correct mechanical features such as the old Hurst/Airheart brakes and confirms the absence of power steering, a characteristic of early IROC cars that made them challenging to drive. The vehicle retains its original steel roof, doors, and quarter panels, with other body parts made of fiberglass. A key safety feature for its time, the fuel cell, was a substantial 30-33 gallons, designed to allow for 100-mile races without pit stops. This large capacity significantly impacted weight distribution, making the cars quite heavy at the start of a race.

Goal: Examine the features and restoration process of a specific second-generation IROC Camaro.

Tools and materials

  • 30-33 gallon fuel cell

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see some technical stuff sure so this is a car that we're getting ready we're gonna start to display that this year this is uh was actually called Iraq number four it was a light blue car ran again the whole series from 77 to 80. uh Peter Gregg the road racer won Riverside in this car but been driven by tons of people where'd you find this car what kind of condition was it in when you when you got an eye on it I keep an eye on it and when they pop up you know I'm always searching for them Bob sharp actually had bought this car as part of a collection that he bought so I bought it from Bob sharp and but when I say Bob Sharpton and obviously you know well known in the road racing world through several things that he did and it was actually restored by the guys at Iraq through the 80s it was dropped off there restored we've replaced the engine in it the cars had originally had traco engines in them you know this is not a complete Draco engine but they were steel heads and and whatnot again on these cars so you know we're trying to make this car runnable I want to take it to the racetrack and use it for some vintage race events but again it this car is one of the most original ones because it was stored uh and restored by by our options when you look at some of the seats and different things that you know these were seats and pieces that we actually made while I was at High Rock uh you know inside this car it is again being done over by Jason Nori in the Iraq group it's a very very original it's a car that was crashed I think it was crashed in that big crash at 1980 um not sure who was driving it maybe one of the Whittington Brothers but as I said the fact that it was one of the original cars and it was restored by the guys at Iraq make it really valuable to me and then Peter Gregg who was one of the greatest Road racers in America ever actually won a race in this car so is this one of the bodies in white or is it a banjo trap no this is a banjo chassis so the the other 74 74 through 70 six I guess are the bodies in white then the banjo cars were this generation Camaro because again you know they changed the Camaro body I believe in 77 to a different body this this is one of the newer bodies these cars were steel roof steel doors steel quarter panels everything else is fiberglass and they ran these again 77 eight nine and eighty it's really cool because the old Hearst Earhart breaks and things like that are are still on the cars these cars didn't have power…

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