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...general distribution. The result is what Tracy Bird, executive director of the sponsoring Sports Car Club of America, calls "product identity," a sense of involvement that has drawn more than 650,000 enthusiasts to the Trans-Am since it was started four years ago. "Every guy who owlis a Mustang," explains Bird, "loves to hear that one won. It vindicates his choice. And the Camaro owner can hardly wait until the next race when Mustang gets clobbered...
Little Solace. In the first of the 13 races in the 1970 Trans-Am circuit, six different makes of cars were among the top seven finishers. Mustang roared off to an early lead by copping the first four races, then lost out to Donohue's red, white and blue Javelin. That set the stage for race No. 6 last week at the aptly named Donnybrooke Speedway in Brainerd, Minn. In the hardest fought contest so far this season, Follmer's Mustang and Milt Minter's Camaro waged a torrid battle for the lead. Growling into the final...
Race officials disallowed Follmer's protest that Minter had deliberately bumped his car three times in the final laps. They fined the Mustang driver $100 for "unsportsmanlike conduct." Said Minter: "At first I thought George was coming out to shake my hand, but when I saw his eyes-he was hysterical!" The point tally as of last week-Mus-fang, 48, Camaro, 26, Javelin, 25, Challenger, 7, Barracuda, 5-held little solace for Follmer. Last year Mustang won four of the first five races and still lost out to Camaro. With seven encounters still ahead, the real hysteria...
...When the work piles up, he sometimes sleeps in a bedroom that is part of his twelfth-floor office suite. All major questions, suggestions, ideas and issues are brought to him for approval. He has approved that symbol of corporate blunder, the Edsel, as well as the Mustang and Maverick, two of the bestselling new U.S. cars of recent years. Those cars have given Ford Motor the reputation of being the innovator in the industry. The chairman watches everything. Once an executive recommended that the company spend $20 million on a weekly TV series on the basis of its audience...
...only when and where he wants to. Jones is still probably one of the ten fastest drivers in the world, despite his partial retirement. The only driving he still does is the NASCAR road race at Riverside in January, and the Trans Am series for Bud Moore's Ford Mustang team. He is very fast in the school bus yellow racer, and has won the first two Trans Am races this year. Not that Jones won without opposition. Donohue ran on his tail at the series opener at Laguna Seca, and Jones' Mustang, Donohue's Javelin, and Leslie's Camaro...