| "body"> | | | | 300 pounds off the weight of the car, so you can |
| Since I haven't talked a lot about the ZL1 | | | | imagine what that would do for it's ¼ mile |
| Corvette, I figured that I'd take an opportunity to | | | | times, the engine was rated from the factory at |
| chat about one of the meanest cars ever built by | | | | 430 hp, but actually made about 625 hp on the |
| man kind, this car was most certainly at the top | | | | dyno, and a 1969 Corvette was around 3200 |
| of the food chain as far as muscle cars and | | | | pounds, this would mean that the car was capable |
| sports cars built in the USA during the 1960's, well | | | | of about 11.18's in the ¼ mile. In street |
| this one had a very short run at the end of the | | | | dress, I don't have a time with open exhaust and |
| 1960's, or in 1969, what I mean by short is there | | | | slicks on the car, but you could probably add |
| were only two of them ever built. | | | | about 1 second with a good driver. |
| The ZL1 engine was conceived of to drag race | | | | This car was built to impress, and that it did, |
| the 1969 Camaro in the NHRA, and 69 ZL1 | | | | there were a white ZL1 and a yellow one built, in I |
| engines were put in to 1969 Camaro's only, the | | | | think it was 1989, if I'm not mistaken, the |
| NHRA had a rule, that if you wanted to race in | | | | government seized the yellow one in a drug raid, |
| the stock class, that the car that you raced had | | | | in which the owner went to prison, they |
| to be a factory production model, and to be a | | | | proceeded to auction the car their estimated |
| production car the manufacture had to build at | | | | value of the car was $500,000, but they sold it |
| least 50 of that particular model, thus the ZL1 | | | | for the minimum reserve of $300,000 to a very |
| Camaro was born. | | | | lucky winner, and the white one I'm not sure |
| But back to the task at hand, the 1969 ZL1 | | | | where it is, but it's out there somewhere, now |
| Corvette, this was probably the wildest production | | | | you hear the Ford guys and the Mopar guys tell |
| car ever built, the Zl1 engine was an all aluminum | | | | you all the time, how their cars beat down the |
| 427 CID big block Chevrolet, and this cut about | | | | Chevy's, but not this one boys. |