For many years the IROC (International Race of Champion) Series was a big deal to both racers and fans. Drivers from all different disciplines of racing were pitted against one another in identically prepared cars. One year would be Camaro bodied machines, Porsches, even Dodge Avengers and  early 1990s Daytonas were part of the program. From 1975 to 1989, it was the all Chevy Camaro show. This car we found on RacingJunk was campaigned by the one and only Bobby Allison. Built in 1977 and updated to 1980 standards for that season, Allison drove this car to the IROC championship that year. He bested guys like Mario Andretti, Gordon Johncock, Rick Mears, Peter Gregg, and Darrell Waltrip to snatch the crown and the $75,000 check.

The legendary Banjo Matthews was contracted by IROC to build 15 identical chassis for the 1977 season and this car is #14 out of the 15 car run. The engine is a 350ci small block Chevy built by the equally legendary TRACO Engineering. TRACO built engines for guys like Penske and Donohue along with tons of other Can-Am, road racing, and stock car teams. The engine in this car is painted their traditional and unassuming gray color. The transmission is a Super T-10, and as you can see from the underside shot of the car, all of the period stock car building tricks were used in the suspension and chassis department.

Then there’s the color. IROC cars always had loud or interesting paint jobs. It was part of how they would help fans ID who was in the car. Car numbers were kind of meaningless to watchers in the stands, unlike NASCAR where seeing the number 43 meant you were looking at Petty, etc. The loud paint made it easy to fans to know who was who…especially when it came to a car that was pink…err…lavender. Allison supposedly called the color “Peptol Pink” and it must not have bothered him much because he whipped ’em all in 1980. What’s better than winning? Winning in a pink car (ask Larry Larson for confirmation on this)!

The car is being sold for $38,000 which we think is kind of a deal for a full tilt, turn key race car with neat history. This car could be gone over and then taken out for historic races, open track events, hell, even autocrossing! If we had the cash, we’d be on this deal like white on rice, even with the color…which we wouldn’t change!

Scroll down to see more photos and the RacingJunk link to this car!

RACINGJUNK LINK: BOBBY ALLISON’S 1980 IROC CHAMPIONSHIP CAMARO