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Sep 19, 2021 | 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeM

You may have had to be "somebody" to buy one. I don't know. I know the special Z-11 body parts stayed in the P&A catalogue for a long time. I don't remember about the engine parts. There were a number of roundy round and drag racers around here that ran the engine parts.

There were also the '62 cars that had OTC aluminum front ends and the Z-11 engine parts late in the year.

In the early spring of '63, a name that has been on my lips for years and now escapes me had one in Gary, Indiana. He used to drag it out to Sammy's Drive-in every night with an old Ford pickup truck. He drug it because there was no engine in it. Lettering all over the side of it. He'd sit there until closing time and then drag it home, only to return the next evening. That was the only street driven one I ever saw and it wasn't really driven.

Edit: The Z-11 owner's name was Karras.

Funny situation there. The Chevy's parked on one side of the drive-in. The MoPars on the other. On pavement. If you had one of the few Fords that showed up, you were expected to "park it in the rocks" (gravel).

Hello, do you happen to remember the first name of the z-11 owner? It may be my late grandfather, and would love to know if it’s the same car. The timeline is correct, he was showing his cars starting in the middle 1950s until about the early 1990s.