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Starting roughly around the 1960s, the auto manufacturer who provided the official pace car, started selling replica pace cars to the general public.

In many cases, the official on-track pace car was modified from its street-legal counterpart.

Strobe lights, rolls bars, multi-point harnesses, and removing the air conditioning, are among some of the modifications made for the actual pace car.

Some official pace cars, however, have undergone extensive modifications, including suspension, transmission, or even engine modifications from their production counterpart ( the 1990 Chevrolet Beretta is an example of this ).

The special edition production replicas available to the public usually come with full paint and " Indy 500 " decals, and may be part of a performance package upgrade.