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Old 08-18-2014, 08:26 AM
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Re: Subaru Test & Development Centre Pace Car

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Originally Posted by ShaneHobson View Post

it's rare. Evidence of that is as simple as a search (I've been doing a lot of that recently). The PPG pace car is far more common than this car. I assume that's because the PPG car appeared in front of many thousands of people at the televised race it participated in (possibly more than one race, I haven't researched it's history). Anyway, plenty of visibility promotes plenty of copies (there could be many PPG copies around) which just leads to that style having a much higher profile (more photos, more web hits) when compared to a car that never appeared to an audience or even in public as part of it's 'day job' (in use at the Test & Dev Center).
To the best of my knowledge I have the ONLY PPG Pace Car Replica, there were 2 Actual PPG Pace Cars built (to my understanding) but no Replicas made and sold to the public.
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