https://www.youtube.com/embed/WjpLcpXwVAg?si=Xxz0wecxXZ7glGtp
Don’t settle for a highlight reel.
Whether you lived it or not–and until that time machine is working–turn back the clock with IMSA and relive the action from the 1990 Long Beach Grand Prix.
Last year, Classic Mazda had the GTO RX-7 on display during the dealer’s annual Race Exhibition. 
The event takes place again this coming Saturday. Eager to see if it’s back.
And more on the Mazda RX-7 GTO from our pals at Classic Motorsports.
I'm totally digging the intro, by the way.
In reply to Colin Wood :
The intro was very '90s and felt like a video game intro. I love it.
Also, at 25:30, it was cool that they happened to have a camera right there. The other cars were almost kissing the nose of the stopped car to get by.
I totally get why the switch toward the homologated GT3 standard in the doorslammer classes is necessary, but I do miss the tube-frame days and all of the wild combinations it produced.
Same course as the 1990 Toyota Pro/Celebrity Grand Prix? Where you can see my car. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zfQEQoD-ag
(Did the ability to embed Youtube videos go away?)
In reply to JG Pasterjak :
So hear me out: Was the Cannibal the final evolution of the tube-frame GT concept?
It didn't seem like it at the time, but looking back now something filmed in 1990 might as well have been filmed in 1975...
In reply to JG Pasterjak :
yep. Grand Am Rolex series was the last time we could see something surreal like an "RX-8" chasing a Ferrari 458.
The cars were just cooler looking then. It takes me back.
If anybody will be there, this weekend let me know. I will be there in a silver NSX
Yeah it was a cool time and made for some interesting fields. Even as GTO got a bit more high-tech, with fuel injection and IRS, the American Challenge cars stuck around and they were basically SCCA GT-1/Trans-Am cars. So you'd always have locals showing up to contest some of the big races, or pooling their efforts and getting a team together for Daytona or Sebring. I think that's why I'm so attracted to the Nurburgring 24 so much, because it still has that Pro/Am vibe of '80s and '90s IMSA.
GTU was kind of the weird outlier. It was fairly IMSA specific. Some SCCA GT-3 cars were eligible, but the technology gap between them and the factory supported IMSA-specific teams was huge.
Man, someday I need to do a story on the tube-frame silhouette era and how everything progressed and fit together.
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