89 Tta Actual Pace Car Photo

[Ozpont]

G'day.. I'm trying to find a close up or ANY.. in fact..images of the actual pace car.. track car ..close up enough to see the size and shape of the strobe lights....looking for a frontal image if possible ..but anything at all.

 

[Ozpont]

G'day.. I'm trying to find a close up or ANY.. in fact..images of the actual pace car.. track car ..close up enough to see the size and shape of the strobe lights....looking for a frontal image if possible ..but anything at all. Reasons will be apparent in a few months to come and you will like the.. reason....!

I have one image of a 89 TTA with strobe lights below... stated as a magnet stick on bank as shown.. but no others.. Tried looking at original 89 Indy Race starts but not much help. Found this image below on a good site GM-Classics .. but nowhere where else.

There were strobe lights built into the front parkers & a bank of rear flashers built under the spoiler.... Does anybody know otherwise.?

 

[Ozpont]

found my own answer by the looks of it. There was NO roof mounted strobe light on the 89 TTA on the track. (still think I've seen then on a real pace car on the day pictures..)
but anyway.. here's a clip .. only visual for about for 1.2 seconds on original race film footage at the UPSET last lap / end of the 73rd race. The pace car that took to the track in the last couple of laps.. ..does not show a roof mounted strobe light...
Was there another active on track pace car on the day WITH a strobe light...??

 

[simo]

Look through all the pages of this thread.
Festival Car Photos from 1989. Finally got around to scanning them in.

 

[Brian Miller]

Definitely no "top of car" strobes.

 

[BOBTTA#464]

Mike Arrigo on here knows everything you want to know about the actual Pace Cars with the lights. He helped with them. #117 Strobe Light Festival Car, "Strobie"