Tribute to Sam Posey by 3DClassics123456

3D Modeling • Transportation • posted on Apr 26, 2009

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When I was a student, in the seventies, I was fond of car races. Sam Posey was, as A.J. Foyt, Dan Gurney, Mario Andretti, Parnelli Jones...one of my favourite american drivers. A small funny story: In the Trans-Am Series, teams would "acid dip" the race cars to etch away metal, thus making the car lighter. At Laguna Seca, the first race of the season, the Challenger team was last in line for technical inspection. Since all the factories were participating in 1970, the first inspection of the year was highly detailed. After the Challenger had passed tech inspection and was accepted, the team offered John Taminus, the Chief Technical Inspector, a beer. John rested his elbow on the roof of the car and it dimpled in (from too much time in the acid bath). When that happened, he told them that they could not run the car until the roof was replaced. Within an hour of that incident, the Challenger team had received permission from Dodge and torched the roof off a Challenger that was sitting on a dealer's showroom floor in downtown Monterey.