The old Rolling Stones tune goes.... "You Can't Always Get What You Want." In life a lot of times that is true, although as I've found recently, sometimes you really can get what you want...kinda. The story goes like this.

In the late 1960's through the early 1970's, the Trans American Road Race Series was raging. The four US car manufactures were in fierce competition battling for the Trans Am Championship. There were four US car manufacturers competing in it at the time; Ford, GM, Chrysler, and American Motors.

I was 17 years old in 1970 but was completely oblivious to the Trans Am Series because I was beating it down the quarter mile at the drag strip. Growing up in Upstate NY (right in my back yard) was some of the greatest road racing of all time. Race tracks at Watkins Glen, NY and Lime Rock, CT were both part of the Trans Am series racing, and I completely missed it! Forty years later I've now "discovered" Vintage Trans Am racing, partly due to two reasons. First, I'm a big AMC fan and collector, and second, AMC is a big part of the Trans Am history.

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