Sam posey challenger racing
The Trans-Am car that helped Sam Posey become a motorsports legend, a Dodge Challenger, has less to do with racing and more to do with ritual bathing..
Converting from a road car to a race car.Sam Posey
American racing driver, author, artist, architect (born )
Samuel Felton Posey (born May 26, )[1] is an American former racing driver and sports broadcast journalist.
Early life and driving career
Posey's father, Lt. (j.g.) Samuel Felton Posey, was killed in the Battle of Okinawa when a kamikaze struck his ship, the USSHenrico. His remains were never recovered.
Posey grew up on his grandfather's Connecticut estate near Lime Rock Park.
In , Posey was the driver for Ray Caldwell's factory-backed Autodynamics Dodge Challenger Sam Posey driver statistics at Racing-Reference.
Posey was bought a Mercedes-Benz SL when he was 14 years old, and practiced driving the car around his family farm. He received his first racing lessons from neighbor John Fitch.[2] Sam Posey started as an amateur sports car racer, and graduated to the Can-Am, in a car designed and funded by himself in collaboration with engineer friend Ray Caldwell.[3] Posey raced the Sunoco Camaro for Roger Penske in in the Trans-Am Series.
Chevrolet won the championship based on the Penske team effort. Mark Do