ZL-1 with the L-88 for sale
10-13-2010, 11:37 AM
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Steve contacted the owners out of respect I guess. His car is as close to a ZL-1 as you can get. Still a clone but it is what it says it is.
Not like all these genuine LT-1's etc that seem to be on the auction sites all the time. Most of the time you will find more of the rare cars on Ebay than GM even made yet the owners are convinced they have an orignal.
BTW, the car in the ad belongs to a guy called Kurt Sikora and a write up of it can be found here...
http://www.vetteweb.com/features/vem...zl1/index.html
Thanks for the info Jason!
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10-13-2010, 12:58 PM
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The last known location of the white one was in Kevin Suydam's collection. He bought the car from Otis Chandler's collection. The yellow one still belongs to Roger of Roger's Corvette in Florida. One of the Corvette magazines featured what they claim was a real ZL-1 convertible but Chevrolet does not verify it.
10-13-2010, 04:33 PM
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I can't believe how worked up people get about a couple of overpriced garage queens/paperweights.For gosh sakes people, get a life.
10-13-2010, 09:12 PM
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Read carefully. These two cars were anything but paperweights. They were the highlight of the first 40 years of Corvette production, and today are the most valuable Corvettes around, excluding a celebrity owned or otherwise noteworthy historically important car.
10-14-2010, 11:23 AM
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http://corvettes-musclecars.com/gall...L-1+427-430HP/
Read carefully. These two cars were anything but paperweights. They were the highlight of the first 40 years of Corvette production, and today are the most valuable Corvettes around, excluding a celebrity owned or otherwise noteworthy historically important car.
Read carefully. These two cars were anything but paperweights. They were the highlight of the first 40 years of Corvette production, and today are the most valuable Corvettes around, excluding a celebrity owned or otherwise noteworthy historically important car.
Corvettes are sports cars, meaning they're meant to be driven. Those two cars are a couple of garage queens owned purely to get some egos pumped up by adoring fans. I'm willing to bet your Corvette has hit higher speeds in the past year than either of those two cars.I repeat. If it just sits there holding the floor from blowing away, it's a paperweight. Last I heard a '73 Chrysler New Yorker could duplicate that function.
10-17-2010, 09:47 AM
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The last known location of the white one was in Kevin Suydam's collection. He bought the car from Otis Chandler's collection. The yellow one still belongs to Roger of Roger's Corvette in Florida. One of the Corvette magazines featured what they claim was a real ZL-1 convertible but Chevrolet does not verify it.
10-18-2010, 03:59 PM
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Those are '60's Chevrolets, not 1930's Bugattis.
10-18-2010, 08:07 PM
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You need to get out of the house once in a while. Bugattis are sports cars, meaning they're meant to be driven. Those cars are garage queens owned purely to get some egos pumped up by adoring fans. I'm willing to bet your Corvette has hit higher speeds in the past year than either of those two cars.
I repeat. If it just sits there holding the floor from blowing away, it's a paperweight. Last I heard a '73 Chrysler New Yorker could duplicate that function.
Bugattis are sports cars, meaning they're meant to be driven. Those cars are garage queens owned purely to get some egos pumped up by adoring fans. I'm willing to bet your Corvette has hit higher speeds in the past year than either of those two cars.I repeat. If it just sits there holding the floor from blowing away, it's a paperweight. Last I heard a '73 Chrysler New Yorker could duplicate that function.
10-18-2010, 09:23 PM
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10-19-2010, 01:41 PM
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Like I said, I'm just puzzled. Maybe it's just the (automotive) engineer in me that just can't make sense of worship of things that have never accomplished anything.
Can you explain this phenomenon to me? I'm sincerely interested in understanding this.
10-19-2010, 03:48 PM
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I think you have partially answered the cause of confusion... logic. From the "too rare to enjoy practically", there is little argument in favor of the cars that would appeal to logic. From a historical point of view, I cannot comment, because I have no knowledge of racing history. From the standpoint of the enthusiast or collector, the appeal is to the heritage. The ZL-1 and L88s were cars that had no business being made. They were so much car that GM made them price prohibitive and option restrictive to discourage purchase, yet they still produced them for the public. In terms of application these were production cars that in pure stock form could make 11s, and with modern tires can hit 10s. Those who love musclecars seem to be particularly keen on rarity and performance... something these cars epitomize. It’s hard not to have a draw towards a car that can pretty much take anything out (stock) in musclecar land shy of a Cobra. Same thing with Superbirds and other such supercars.
