Photos - 1970 Watkins Glen Trans-Am Race

[Steve Holmes]

Bud Moore Racing became the only Ford factory team for the 1970 Trans-Am series, after FoMoCo drastically reduced its funding in motor racing. As a result, they dropped Carroll Shelby, with only Moore continuing on, with a reduced budget.

Moore prepared three Kar-Kraft supplied bodies into race cars for 1970, with the 1970 sheet metal. None of their 1969 cars were carried over. The chassis numbers were 9F02M212775, 776, and 777. The two main race cars, one each for Parnelli Jones and George Follmer, were chassis' 775 and 776, and both had the newly introduced 3-link rear suspension. Chassis 777 had the same suspension as the 1969 cars.

Jones didn't like the 3-link set-up, and actually raced 777 early in the season, before the Bud Moore team reverted all three cars back to the 1969 set-up.

According to Mustang racing guru Wolfgang Kohrn, the easiest way to tell the two Jones chassis' apart, is from the interior; chassis 775 and 776 had grey interiors with black speckles, while 777 was black with grey speckles.

I suspect this is Follmer's car.