So where are these 500, 1966 Barracudas?
OK....got a reply from my B.I.L......
"The wrecked 0 AS car in the pictures you sent was my first car. My partner Dale crashed it in our first race. That was the final race of the TransAm Series at Riverside in 1966. It was not one of the 500 homoligation vehicles, but purchased directly from the factory in 1966, without the noted mods. I have no idea where those homoligation vehicles went, but I suspect some were the Team Starfish cars, raced by the factory team of Scott Harvey and two other drivers with one spare.
Scott was the #1 factory suspension engineer who founded and was #1 driver of the factory Trans Am team. Prior to that he founded the Trans Canada Rally for Chrysler Corp. and won 2 or 3 of them.
In spring 1967 he called me and advised Chrysler would no longer support a factory team, provide hemi engines to Keith Black or sponsor Richard Petty. He then offered his factory racer for a price less than $400 as an incentive to race in the Western U.S. We drove to Detroit and towed it back to CA.
The attached picture is of that car en-route in Sept 1967, to the 6 hour day/night endurance race at the newly introduced and short lived Stardust International Raceway, Las Vegas"
"I was subsequently transferred to Dallas and left the car with Dale in CA. He towed it to Dallas for the first Trans Am race at the new Dallas International Motor Speedway in 1988, but the race was cancelled. I inherited the car and later sold it to my attorney, never to be seen again."
OK....got a reply from my B.I.L......
"The wrecked 0 AS car in the pictures you sent was my first car. My partner Dale crashed it in our first race. That was the final race of the TransAm Series at Riverside in 1966. It was not one of the 500 homoligation vehicles, but purchased directly from the factory in 1966, without the noted mods. I have no idea where those homoligation vehicles went, but I suspect some were the Team Starfish cars, raced by the factory team of Scott Harvey and two other drivers with one spare.
Scott was the #1 factory suspension engineer who founded and was #1 driver of the factory Trans Am team. Prior to that he founded the Trans Canada Rally for Chrysler Corp. and won 2 or 3 of them.
In spring 1967 he called me and advised Chrysler would no longer support a factory team, provide hemi engines to Keith Black or sponsor Richard Petty. He then offered his factory racer for a price less than $400 as an incentive to race in the Western U.S. We drove to Detroit and towed it back to CA.
The attached picture is of that car en-route in Sept 1967, to the 6 hour day/night endurance race at the newly introduced and short lived Stardust International Raceway, Las Vegas"
"I was subsequently transferred to Dallas and left the car with Dale in CA. He towed it to Dallas for the first Trans Am race at the new Dallas International Motor Speedway in 1988, but the race was cancelled. I inherited the car and later sold it to my attorney, never to be seen again."