Description:

A perfectionist restoration of Sam Posey's highly competitive car. A vintage
correct five litre (302) Chevrolet based iron block and head injected engine. Lucas-McKay induction,
546 Hp @ 7000 rpm. Restored using the best possible materials and and both cosmetically and technically
dazzling.


History

In its day, this car was the class of the field. With an engine that was approximately 10 percent off the pace of the most ardent competitors, it captured six of eight pole positions in the 1972 season. It started every race from the front row, and was second overall in the championship, losing by one point. It then went to New Zealand and Australia to run the Tasman series, and was second there as well.
Think of what that represents: No one on the Posey team had ever even been to any of the tracks they raced on in the Tasman series. The races were held every weekend, on a different track each week. All the races were two day events: practice Saturday, race on Sunday. Imagine the challenge of racing in a foreign country, with no access to your own facilities, no set-up data, no course knowledge and no gear charts, with no opportunity to test. To place second in such a series behind Graham McRae, the four time champion, was quite a feat. It speaks volumes of the driveability and tunability of this chassis. I have spoken with Mr. Posey about this car to confirm the history as I knew it. Indeed, in addition to confirming it, he was quite nostalgic about the car, citing it as probably the most enjoyable all-around race car he had ever competed in. This from a man who started in Formula Vee and ended up running Indy, LeMans, F1 and Can-Am. He chose this car to appear as the cover art on his autobiography, and he goes into detail about all the trouble they had that season that had nothing to do with the car. The biggest handicap in that season was the lack of a strong, reliable powerplant. Traco was the best engine builder at that time, and the Posey team was unable to secure an engine contract with them. In his book, Sam describes the cornering as effortless; his first drive in the untested car resulted in the capture of pole position at Laguna Seca in 1972. Sam, Dennis McCormack and John Surtees were happy to authenticate the car. you can't ask for more history than that.