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Old 10-28-2009, 12:47 AM   #1
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I saw this on trackside about a week ago watching tv with my dad, and to my amazement i just found it on youtube, crazy drunk fan steals the trans am pace car at talledega, haha i had no idea this ever happened.

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Dammit! I'm old enough to remember watching that race live on TV! They really drug that guy out of that car HARD!
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haha i saw it on tv last week when my dad said hey son look theres a third gen on tv, and it was like... the 1986 winston 500 i believe and i was shocked as to how nascar let a drunk fan slip by and stole that sexy pace car lol.
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haha i saw it on tv last week when my dad said hey son look theres a third gen on tv, and it was like... the 1986 winston 500 i believe and i was shocked as to how nascar let a drunk fan slip by and stole that sexy pace car lol.
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I'm not the best on birds...is that an 1986 GTA, or a 88/89 GTA as someone else questioned?
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It was the 86 Talladega winston 500, its just a high optioned Trans Am. Not a GTA. GTA came in 87, it is pretty hard looking at the car, but its just a regular Trans Am.
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It had a Black aero Spoiler... 1985 & 1986 only, and the GTA was introduced in 1987. I have an original order slip from 1986 that shows that a 1986 GTA was orderable, but not deliverable.

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I wonder if the pace car had the 305 TPI....

Lucky drunk bastard lol
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It probably had the 305 from 1985 not 1986, or at least a hotter cam... Considering that Winston cup has a pace lap of about 55mph, they could have easily used any TPI car for that...
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That's pretty funny. I saw it again this past week on SPEED's "This Week In NASCAR" and DVR'ed it. Looked like an '86 T/A to me.

I wonder if that guy's hair ever grew back in that patch of scalp that they undoubtedly ripped the hair out of when they hauled him unceremoniously from the driver's seat?
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I saw that on Speed this week.What a great pre race show....LOL
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