{"id":495335,"date":"2016-03-23T12:18:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T19:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=28316"},"modified":"2024-03-01T07:39:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T07:39:53","slug":"trans-50th-birthday-rolex-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/trans-50th-birthday-rolex-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion (2016) &#8211; Trans-Am 50th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the early years of the SCCA\u2019s Trans-American Sedan Championship, fans could cheer for factory-backed entries from all the major U.S. manufacturers \u2014 Ford Mustangs, Chevrolet Camaros, Plymouth Barracudas, Mercury Cougars, Pontiac Firebirds, Dodge Challengers and AMC Javelins \u2014 driven by the top drivers of the day, Mark Donohue, Parnelli Jones, Dan Gurney, Jim Hall, George Follmer, Sam Posey, Peter Revson, Bob Tullius, and more. The Trans-Am\u2019s five-liter \u201cPony Cars\u201d were a good indication that Detroit believed in the \u201cwin on Sunday, sell on Monday\u201d mantra, but alas, after those rivalries lifted the series to its pinnacle in 1970, the realities of head-to-head competition meant all of the carmakers eventually decided to forsake the series.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, scheduled for August 18-21 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, will host three dozen original Trans-Am cars that will perform for the crowd on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday of race weekend. The Trans-Am thus joins the Can-Am, another SCCA series born in 1966, on the Rolex Reunion schedule as this year\u2019s 43<sup>rd<\/sup> annual event unfolds. For complete information please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mazdaraceway.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.mazdaraceway.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the early years of the SCCA\u2019s Trans-American Sedan Championship, fans could cheer for factory-backed entries from all the major U.S. manufacturers \u2014 Ford Mustangs, Chevrolet Camaros, Plymouth Barracudas, Mercury Cougars, Pontiac Firebirds, Dodge Challengers and AMC Javelins \u2014 driven by the top drivers of the day, Mark Donohue, Parnelli Jones, Dan Gurney, Jim Hall, George Follmer, Sam Posey, Peter Revson, Bob Tullius, and more. The Trans-Am\u2019s five-liter \u201cPony Cars\u201d were a good indication that Detroit believed in the \u201cwin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":539879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,13063],"tags":[432,16936,441,15234,16971],"class_list":["post-495335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-events","category-vintage-car-racing","tag-events","tag-festivals-shows","tag-monterey-car-week","tag-events-vintage-racing","tag-event-rolex-monterey-motorsports-reunion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion (2016) - Trans-Am 50th Birthday<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/trans-50th-birthday-rolex-reunion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion (2016) - Trans-Am 50th Birthday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"During the early years of the SCCA\u2019s Trans-American Sedan Championship, fans could cheer for factory-backed entries from all the major U.S. manufacturers \u2014 Ford Mustangs, Chevrolet Camaros, Plymouth Barracudas, Mercury Cougars, Pontiac Firebirds, Dodge Challengers and AMC Javelins \u2014 driven by the top drivers of the day, Mark Donohue, Parnelli Jones, Dan Gurney, Jim Hall, George Follmer, Sam Posey, Peter Revson, Bob Tullius, and more. 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