69 ZL-1 Corvette

[Rex T.]

Whatever happened to the white 69 ZL-1 Corvette that was in Otis Chandler's collection? I think he passed away and I never heard any more about this car.

Thanks,
Rex

[Mike M.]

Re: 69 ZL-1 Corvette

otis is definitly on the wrong side of the topsoil. he was a character. don't know what became of the ZL-1. mike

[Dick W.]

Re: 69 ZL-1 Corvette

It is in the Kevin Suydam's collection

http://www.corvettes-musclecars.com/home.shtm

[Tracy C.]

should be a crime to have a corral like that.... *NM*

[Loren Smith]

Re: 69 ZL-1 Corvette

Since the yellow one and the red one are fully documented, where does that leave the white one? Could there have been three, and the GM records be wrong?

[Norris W.]

Re: 69 ZL-1 Corvette

There was also a blue one on the cover of a magazine a LONG time ago that the owner said he could prove was the #2 car.

Which one was it that the IRS agent owned formerly and if I remember correctly he signed an affidavit saying it was authentic and there was no other documentation?

[Mark #28455]

The rumor is that there were 8 ZL1's

Originally there were "supposed" to have been 8 ZL1's to be built. Apparently the first one - the yellow one - caused so much trouble that the order was cancelled and the planned remaining cars were sold as L88's. The big question is whether they had an L88 or ZL1 build sheet on the tank when they left the factory and even if they did, rumor has it they went to big name racers so the tank sheets would likely have been tossed.

File that away in the "urban legend" drawer. By the way, the factory lost a lot of $$$ trying to fix all the ZL1 engines that kept breaking. It seems they had a problem with main bearings spinning - expansion of the blocks released the bearing crush or something like that. Apparently a bunch of the Camaros and the Yellow ZL1 had their engines replaced. (But now have the "original" engines )

Mark

[Clem Z.]

Re: The rumor is that there were 8 ZL1's

we used ZL-1 blocks in dirt race cars and the bottom end did show some movement but we never spun a bearing. i had more trouble with ZL-1 "clone" blocks made by dove engineering in ohio than GM blocks after you could not get GM or yenko blocks. john maher orignal ZL-1 engine was just rebuilt and was dyno tested here several months ago.

[Verle R.]

Re: The rumor is that there were 8 ZL1's

Clem,

Can you post the dyno numbers from that engine?

Thank you,

Verle

[Clem Z.]

Re: The rumor is that there were 8 ZL1's

john has the sheets and he put in the GM short track cam,#340282 because his ZL-1 has a THM 400 and this cam works better,more torque down low than the #3959180 cam so the max HP is not up there with a #3959180 cam