1983 was my 4th year at the Daytona 24 Hours, and for those of you accustomed to the type of cars raced there this century, you’d be quite surprised to go back to a year like 1983, and see 79 cars take the green flag, with 92 having been entered, including a Studebaker Avanti. This was the first year for the new GTP class, IMSA’s version of Group C, with one key rule difference. IMSA’s rules required that the driver’s feet be behind the centerline of the front axle, for…
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