SCCA® members don’t just dream about motorsports – we live it. Despite that, there are cars you look at and think, “That’d be a heck of a car to run around the track.” And you’re not alone. The editors at Hagerty, the Official Insurance Partner of the SCCA, are cut from the same cloth. The media arm of that auto insurance company is filled with motorheads, and they daydream, too. Most recently, Hagerty.com/media (where you can find tons of free, entertaining, and educational articles) produced a story entitled “8 Cars We Dream of Taking to the Track,” and while most cars in that list are not related to the SCCA, one is a Club classic.
“There is nothing quite like experiencing a car unbridled on a race track,” the article states. “Getting the chance to really open it up and push a machine, limited only by physics and fear, is the sort of activity that starts seeping into your brain stem and altering your worldview about two seconds after your first pit-out.”
With the article written just before Monterey Car Week, there were a lot of special cars on the Hagerty editors’ minds. Hagerty’s Nik Berg picked one that I think we can all agree would be a blast: a British Touring Car Championship Volvo 850 wagon. Stefan Lombard, meanwhile, picked the Ferrari 250 GT SWB. There were some modern cars in there, too, but the one that really caught my eye on the list was one many SCCA members will recognize.
“My knee-jerk reaction here was to go rational with something like a Miata or a Toyota GR86, but after Stefan proffered that Ferrari, well … I cannot help but think back to watching the historic Trans-Am cars rip around Laguna Seca back in 2023 at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion,” wrote Nathan Petroelje, later adding, “Give me a bright blue 1967 Camaro with white racing stripes, plenty of race gas, and about three more sets of tires than I initially say would be required. We’re goin’ driving driving.”
The car he’s referencing is no run-of-the-mill blue 1967 Camaro. This particular one held Dana Chevrolet livery in the SCCA Pro Racing-sanctioned Trans Am series, with no other than Bob Bondurant and Dick Guldstrand at the wheel. The car saw numerous victories, and was never really retired, being raced by privateers in the 1970s and ’80s, all the way through to the 2020s. In June 2026, it sold at auction for $218,000.
I wouldn’t mind driving that on track, either.
Hagerty’s article can be found here on Hagerty.com/media.
Photo courtesy Hagerty/Nathan Petroelje
