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Old 05-07-2015, 10:12 PM
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Where's this INDY car

The Camaro Z28 was the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pace_car for the 1982 Indianapolis 500 race, and over 6,000 appearance replicas were sold through Chevrolet dealers. The edition featured special two-tone silver/blue paint and special striping, orange pin-striping on 15-inch (380 mm) Z28 wheels, and a silver/blue interior with six-way Lear-Seigler manually adjustable seating. Engine choices in the pace cars were the same as the regular production Z28. The car that actually paced the event was equipped with a highly modified all aluminum 5.7 L V8 that was not available on the replica cars.
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The actual pace cars are probably sitting in someone's collection or a museum. There are two members on here who think they have 82 trans am pace cars from the Daytona 500, they got the same 5.7 swap.
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Re: Where's this INDY car

The 82's Daytona pace cars didn't get a all alum 5.7, they got some sort of 350 (probably along the lines of a ZZ3)
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Missed the all aluminum part lol.
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The original pace car is at the museum in Indy. Here's the YouTube:


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