I was at the 79 Nats. I was 17 at the time. I was just looking at my old photos but couldn't find your car - thought I might get lucky. I was actually parked in that same area with 3 or four other pace cars,
That was the year I brought my 69 Z11 pace car and my brother brought his Daytona yellow 69 SS396 Camaro. I was a hellacious trip. He went through two clutches, a camshaft, 3 rocker arms and other assorted crap in the 1600 mile roundtrip. We had to do a cam change in the hotel parking lot during the event. We eventually got into a fight after he had a little too much fun with the motel maid and got us kicked out (she left with him! - kind of a "Dirty Mary-Crazy Larry" movie script, I know). I left him somewhere along the way and drove back solo. We both took different routes back to CT and ran right into the odd-even license plate gas rationing fiasco. It took him a week to get back, only getting 5 gallons per fillup on alternate days. Oh those were the days! (We still get along
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Oh, Verne. My vote is for the natural aluminum finish.
