I don't see it happening as American Sedan is basically a moden-day version of what the original Trans-Am series started out to be. I'm also not sure how the idea of using the current A/S class as a "B" class would work even if your idea was brought to life.

Sadly, I don't think the evolution of the cars had anything to do with the demise of Trans-Am, more like the self-serving management of the series by one particular individual that drove away not only all of the major sponsors but most of the big name teams and drivers. In the end, NOBODY wanted to deal with the series management.

Look at the series back in the early to mid-90's. It had factory involvement and major sponsor support and large fields of top-caliber cars and drivers. Unfortunately SCCA had no idea how to run a pro series and it hemmoraged money that kept being drained from the club side to support it. When the red ink became too much spinning it off to people like Panoz and Gentlozzi was in itself a disaster. With all due respect, neither one of them were interested in truly promoting the racing series, only in using it as a vehicle to further their own interests. Witness the abortive attempt at the Panoz GTS as a club racing GT-1 car that couldn't even get out of the way of the better GT-2 cars and the Panoz Trans-Am car that was such a slug as to require major tweaking of the aero rules to make it competitive. I'll save my opinions of the Gentlozzi era of Trans-Am management except to say that it's interesting to note that once Paul "broke" Mark Donahue's victory record despite taking almost a decade longer to accomplish it, the series basically collapsed. The final race of the series had less than 10 REAL Trans-Am cars, the remainder of the field being filled out with the "support" classes which amounted to a handful of mediocre GT-1 cars and those slow stock cars that I can't even remember the class for. Trans-Am officials were begging the "real" competitors to come to Canada for the last race, as basically nobody was interested anymore.

Trans-Am, with the cars as they existed, could be a viable series once again but the question is who would run it? I don't think you'd be able to interest SCCA in shouldering it again, as they pretty much have their hands full with the World Challenge series and frankly Trans-Am would seem to the general viewing public as just another class like the World Challenge cars. It would need to be someone with deep pockets and an honest desire to bring the series back to a marketable level of competition, in other words with the ability to attract and KEEP major sponsors and competitors. I do also believe that it would have to have at least the sanctioning involvement of an orginization like SCCA to be considered a legitimate professional race series.

Don't get me wrong, I mourned the passing of Trans-Am, it was my favorite racing series of all time. But by the time it was laid to rest it had become almost a cruel joke on itself.