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Tracing Chassis Evolution

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Vintage IROC Dodge Avenger Track Day with Ray Evernham: Legendary Driver List and Still Run Hard!

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What happens here

Learn about the car's chassis evolution, noting its transformation from a 1984 Gen 3 Camaro to a Daytona, and finally to the Dodge Avenger body. Understand that while the body changed, the underlying chassis, built by Banjo Matthews, remained largely consistent. This step helps in tracing the visual and structural lineage of the race car.

Goal: Understand the changes in the car's body over its racing career.

Tools and materials

  • Avenger Body Dodge — Final body type used for the IROC car
  • Daytona Body Dodge — Intermediate body type used for the IROC car
  • Gen 3 Camaro Body Chevrolet — Original body type of the IROC car

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actually a 1980 Camaro then on Daytona and then now it's going to Center but it's actually one of the cars that I worked and built while I was at Iraq and actually drove it several times it's a two-seat car it's something that we want to play with for us having track days and things like that it's just a really nice fun car some history you know you can see by the drivers who've driven it that you know it's pretty cool to say you've ridden in a car that's been driven by all those drivers now now you get to drive with me and uh we're playing with the ghost too you know it's uh uh love vir this is an incredible Place uh but two completely different cars so it's um it's good I haven't driven in a while so it's testing my skills this car basically ran

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