Thought this was neat, Player's series 1987. They ran these cars hard!!

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/G...eal_192790.htm

 

Wow, no kidding then ran them hard! Amazing video

 

That was a cool video!!

 

That was like the title states "Really cool!"

John

 

I love that kind of stuff! Nice vid.

has anyone ever seen American muscle car on Speed vision where they featured 3ed gens. Iroc , Gta firehawks? Great episode

 

3rd gens on american muscle cars?? Maybe powerblock but not 3rd gens. Anyways I love this video. Needs to be saved.

I feel sorry for that poor wrecked one that got spun out early on in the video and the one at the end.

 

That was a cool video.

 

Great vid!! That Camaro really biffed it in the begining But the T/A was bent hard at the end. I looked like he got it started and limped away though

 

I wonder if my white IROC was among them...I had an 87 Players car once....it rocked

 

Awesome video

 

American Muscle Car did a show on the Camaro Z28. It had the entire history from beginning to the episode air date which included GMMG cars. They did show the 3rd gen and mentioned that the IROC-Z was and still is one of the best handling cars made.

 

Good video ! They also have a Firehawk race in there from 1992.

 

For those who didn't find it.
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/1...awk_196276.htm

Awsome find. I wish I could figure out how to download them.

 

The Firehawk race looks almost like a spectator race with some stickers... Everything in there Nissan's, Porches, noticed a Pontiac Gran Am, I saw a few older Trans Am's 86-90 type, and older Camaros too... In the beginning it was definitely a 91-92 style Camaro Z28 however...

John

 

Are you using Windblows IE to surf the 'net? If so, ditch it. Other web browsers allow you to snag online videos. Every now & then, there are some I can't get, but only ones that are Java. Videos like these are no problem. I got both videos from here, no problem.

 

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

John

 

I used to watch the Player's Challenge races in person at Westwood Racetrack (Vancouver) back in 1987.





Looks like that race video in the 1st link was either June 13th or Sept 6th





I absolutely LOVED seeing what a bone stock straight from the factory IROC-Z/Trans Am could do back then. Granted, they had side exit exhausts (no mufflers) but aside from that, it was real stock racing. Not like those races from the 60's where they'd shoehorn some insane engine in a car that never sold to the general public aside from maybe 10 cars.

 

If you look closely in the Player's Challenge video, you'll see the sidepipes on those cars. Full pics are at the link below.

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/hist...t=side+exhaust

 

I only saw one GTA in the whole pack... weak sauce! Oh well, at least it took 2nd

 

something kinda interesting i came across a while back. If your car has the gound f/x, right behind the doors, on the underside of the side Ground f/x piece, there are indentations in the f/x that seem to be made to clear the sidepipe tips.

 

What is interesting is they have in the brochure they reference the cars have an RPO of XO5 or X05 and neither of those RPO's show up.

John

 

Great vid, I'd love to have one of those!