Calling all NASCAR buffs!

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On Sunday Aug the 21st, i was at the Shelsley Walsh Centenary meeting, and one of the many interesting cars there was this awesome Camaro:-



It looks (and sounds) like a NASCAR racer, and it's got the name Petty on it, but i cant find any info on it. Anybody who's knowledgable avout old NASCARs there who'll help?
 
Its quite possible its an old Nascar of one of the Petty's considering some of the 1st Nascars were muscle cars.
 
It's an IROC car. IROC stands for International Race of Champions. Well, it stood for that, nowadays it doesn't mean jack. Back in the 60s and 70s, they'd have people from most big series drive cars like these Camaros, even Porsche 911s at first, around various racetracks in America.
 
I don't think a Camaro ever was or ever will be in NASCRAP (er.... NASCAR).
They used to use full-size cars like the Superbird, Torino, and Bonneville. It was less bad then because they actually modified the stock cars and used them, whereas nowadays they just put a fake body on a tube-frame chassis, put a headlight sticker on it, and call it a Monte Carlo, etc.

The Camaro posted above very well could be a Trans-Am racecar, though.


Edit - You beat me to it, PR.
 
It IS an Iroc car, after looking IROC cars up online - thanks for your help. I gather this particular one was driven by Richard Petty in its heyday.
 
Thanks for the pictures. The car was also at Goodwood this year, Roo got a nice shot of it if anyone feels like digging that thread up.
I think second gen Camaros are hidious, especially after '74, but there's something undenyably badass about production-based race cars of this era.
 

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