Martin Auto Museum’s blue with white stripes 1968
Chevrolet Camaro Z/28. (The Tomaso collection)
The car that “Captain America”, aka Mark
Donohue and El Capitano’, nee Roger Penske made famous. Or is it the other way
round
Having been homologated for SCCA Trans Am
competition, with Donohue winning the 1968-69 Manufacturers title for Chevrolet
in a Nasty Sunoco blue Penske Racing Camaro Zed’ 28.
Winning 10 of 13 races in 1968! A record that
stood until Tommy Kendall won 11 of 13 races in 1997. With TK” (Kendall) also
breaking Donohue’s streak of eight back-to-back victories in 1968 with eleven
consecutive wins in 1997!
While Rick DeBruhl profiles the legendous’
Z/28, albeit a 1969 example at the California Auto Museum in Sacramento below.
VIDEO: Why the 1969 Camaro
Z/28 became a legend
Photo C/O No Fenders Blogmeister’ Miguel.
