I have a few questions I would like answered. Thanks!

 

Ok - ask away... I used to race from 86-91

 

Here's our last car...1989 1LE...wrecked at Lime Rock and subsequently cut up...

 

Is that a tube frame car?

If so, who built them/yours?

Have any pictures specifically of the the frame?

Any help would be appreciatted.

 

No they (The Firestone Firehawk series cars) were not tube frame although the GTO car was...I have some pictures at home of that car and can post later.

My cars were built by Bill Michell (Special Vehicle Developments). Bill Mitchell was a GM engineer (much like his famous namesake!) who built the IROC Camaro's in the 70's in a partnership with Mark Donohue. Mitchell continued after Mark's death and eventually went on to do the 1LE testing & development under contract w/ GM.

Here's some more pics...

 

another

 

What is the GTO car?

 

3rd Gen!!!!!!!!

 

I understand that, was it a different racing class/series?

 

that camaro looks cool!

 

Oh sorry. Yes the GTO car was a tube frame. There were three classes GTU, GTO, and GTP. GTU cars were under a certain liter displacement (sorry I forget now...memory is not what it used to be) GTO was obviously over the liter mark, and GTP were the prototypes like Porsche 962's. I have to dig out the pics of that GTO car still but here's some more of the showroom stock firestone series cars...

Enjoy!

 

another

 

more

 

here's a good one...

 

and another Sebring FL

 

and more

 

and more - sorry I can only post one pics at a time??

 

Watkins Glen NY

 

Watkins Glen again

 

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you can host the pics on another site then "tag" orremote link them in your post.

I hope mods dont kill these pics theres usually a 3 picture limit

 

man i am really diggin the great quality pics from back when these cars were kickin butt, where are the 5.0 stangs??? man these pics make me want to go out and ram gears in mine.

 

Where area all of these cars now?
Have they been converted back to street use, or are thyey just sitting in someones garage somewhere?
I can't imagine that all of these cars have been scrapped?

 

There is a 3 picture limit, however, because of the nature of these, we'll keep 'em. If they could be hosted on another site and linked here as larger images, that would be great. The small images don't really show much detail.

 

If you have any pics of the GTO cars or know where some are, please share.

Thats a pretty cool paint scheme on those cars.

 

Thanks for leaving these up past the three limit amount...

There are very few of these original cars left. I still own our first one - and actually restored it back to original and did a couple of car shows with it this year (Old Town Kissimee Chevy Show, and Amelia Island Concours).

We're in the process of getting our business website up & running so check there soon and I'll host some more racing pictures, history, etc. on it... Here's the site:

www.bananaboatco.com

 

Looks good! If you come across any GTO pics please post them up.