[TAKerry]

What a great car. Even the newest pontiac is old! That car is more than eligible for the AACA. You should look into that organization. That car would score very high. I bought a GP new around '89. Same era as yours with the larger headlights. Ours was white, had a velour int. but otherwise loaded. It did not have the Heads up, and I am not sure if it came out the year after our car was built? It was a dealer leftover because it was a 5 speed. Ours was not cheap I remember the sticker price was over 20k and we got it for about 15k. One of the nicest cars I ever owned.
As far as being THE pace car, I dont want to pee in your corn flakes but I would take that claim with a grain of salt. It very well may have been a festival car though. At these races the manufacturer will loan the track a hundred cars or more for vip use during the race. It may have been one of those. I was at Daytona when the SSR truck paced. The hotel I stayed in was using their grounds to park the trucks until GM picked them back up. There was at least 100 of them all lined up, many with pace car decals. Days of thunder claim, who knows? and probably not a lot that would care. I think the car stands on its own merit of being in the condition that it is for 35 years!