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Mar 24, 2020 · Irwin Kroiz, renowned for his collection of unique and rare factory racecars, bought the first Team Penske 1968 Camaro at the RM Sotheby’s Amelia Island auction in 2016. “Irwin knew the car would be in the auction but didn’t express an interest in buying it until he saw it on display in the preview,” says Mackay.
Roger Penske has been involved with IndyCar racing since 1968, when his team first fielded a stock block -powered Eagle with Mark Donohue. The organization first competed at Indianapolis in 1969, where Donohue was named rookie of the year. In 1971, Donohue scored the first win for Team Penske in IndyCar at the Pocono 500.
Feb 18, 2016 · 1968 Sunoco Team Penske Trans-Am Camaro. Photos by Robin Adams, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. Out of the box, the new-for 1967 Chevrolet Camaro wasn’t much of a race car. That didn’t stop Roger Penske and his star driver/engineer, Mark Donohue, from turning it into one (and a competitive one at that) and the fabled team would…
- Kurt Ernst
Mar 17, 2017 · The 1967 Trans-Am season saw the debut of the Chevrolet Camaro and the Mercury Cougar. After the Penske Racing team built the first Sunoco Blue car, according to Mark Donohue in his book The Unfair Advantage “someone” arranged for Fisher Body to stamp special bodywork out of lighter gauge steel. Unfortunately Donohue crashed the first ...
- Kevin Triplett
Oct 19, 2023 · The Penske/Donohue Camaro in competition at the 1968 Mission Bell 250 Trans-Am race in Riverside, California. As you can see, McIntyre's restoration of this car is virtually flawless. See All 7 Photos
“Roger has always liked to go to the endurance races at Daytona and Sebring. Now, here it was January (1967) and he didn’t have a car to enter”, Donohue explained. A brand new, road going factory red Z28 Camaro was bought, and delivered to the Penske workshop, where Donohue and fellow Penske team member Bill ‘Murph’ Mayberry tore into it.
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Historic Trans Am. Tom McIntyre - Burbank, California 1968 Sunoco Camaro Z/28 #6 Originally Driven by Mark Donohue. Street car Camaro Z-28 - Built by Roger Penske, Driven by Mark Donohue Engine: 302 cubic inch - Weight: 3000 lbs. Mark Donohue and George Wintersteen finished second overall in this Camaro Z-28 at the 1967 Sebring event.
