IROC Firebird Test Drive

things were sold off uh and I believe it's a a little bit of a different mold this one seems lighter um The Vortex generators are a little bit different I heard somewhere that these fire bodies were not actually one toone scale with the production car is that true well because wheelbase would be different width would be different now back then you know they didn't do everything on computer Randy wtin and in his group who Randy was a great designer at at General Motors responsible for many of the winning racing Corvettes for many many years U Randy was the lead designer on this Ira stuff so they would take a a stock bodied uh fireberg or stock body Camaro and then do it out of clay widths would be wider the track would be longer and they would just keep modeling it out of clay and then make the molds based off of of the of the clay car which was really cool to watch him do interesting this one runs doesn't it yeah this one runs this one runs these are my favorite ones to listen to well let me see you know if old Ray can get his butt into ilio Casta seat which is a little bit difficult I'm going to shut that hook because if I can get my butt in that seat we're going to sneak this thing out the door and you're going to video it going down the road and then you're probably going to video the police arresting me but it won't be the first race car that will be driven down this road you know it there's so uh much information about the old iro series on the uh on the internet now it is uh it's really cool to see so much interest in these in these cars again because the story of Iraq and and how it how it just grew to so much popularity in the 70s and the legendary drivers that that drove it you know it's uh it is really a bigger part of auto racing history then a lot of people give it credit for these babies were just like race cars for this whole giant old steering wheel all right let's see let's see if we can get this one to start good starch will sneak it out of