I was an active SCCA Corner Worker during that era. Funny thing, we who were in our 20s then actually sat around our campfire at night listening to our mentors tell their stories about the Can-Am 10-20yrs previously! Took me awhile to realize we'd participated in something equally cool.
I'll give ya what I got for the moment, other stuff I haven't scanned yet.
Geoff stuck behind a Lights car at 11, Road Atlanta 1986.
Jaguar XJR-12 left rear fender cover I'd retrieved from the road, knocked off in a bump at T7 as Brabham went by Cobb, maybe 1989 or 90? Took it down to the paddock at the end of the day, T. Dow said I should "just keep it" (didn't offer any autographs from himself or Price, he was pretty angry that they got beat).
From the same race, the empty "Camel Pyramid" podium display "check" (which I filled out to m'self at the worker party that night, of course!!). IIRC, the Camel Pyramid was a contingency payment from RJ Reynolds that promised $10K for every "new" overall winner on the season. Again, IIRC..after Kastner & Brabham got the Nissan working the way they wanted, that contingency was not paid to anyone that year!
Camel Cigarette advertising banner from the GTP era (notice the illustration of the 962). It was common practice then for us to leave our Worker clothes on at night so that the fans in the infield would think we belonged trackside, and wouldn't steal as much E36 M3 as we did..
I've got more pix that I haven't scanned from the 86 Road Atlanta Spring race (including the #16 Dyson 962 with RC Cola sponsorship after the guys at RC realized that Conte's March/Buick wasn't going to turn another lap), a bunch of stuff from Mid Ohio `90, a stack of race programs, and I honestly cannot remember how much else. I think there's an issue of the BMWCCA's Roundel with a feature on the M-Team, a water-filled keychain from Camel where you try to put the little plastic cigarettes back into the pack. And of course, back then the Camel Girls ran around the paddock and infield with trays of cigarettes like a "B-girl" in a WW2 movie. I don't recall ever spending money on cigarettes when the Camel GT came to town..
Brad, great project. I'll help as much as I can. I genuinely loved those cars, and as previously mentioned, didn't realize how fantastic that era while it was happening. I think the first little inkling I had was working the Petite Le Mans in 2005 or so, and at that Worker campground, there were about 10 folks that went wide-eyed and damn near crazed listening to me & my old compadres talk about working the GTP.
There's a great book out there about GTP. Although the IMSA series was based upon the Group C rules used in Europe and Asia, the cars were very different, and the sprint race format made the racing different as well. I'm still kicking myself that I couldn't afford it when it was published..seems like it was 80-90 bucks then, but it takes a lot more to get a copy of it now..
http://www.amazon.com/Prototypes-History-Imsa-J-Martin/dp/1893618013
There's also videos available on a website from someone trying to tell the entire history of IMSA.
http://www.imsahistory.com/
