Still love that car 54.....

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Unloading pics from my system including a few that belong here.
First are a couple shots of Rolly Johnson's original Rat Patrol '68 Camaro.
Next is the only pic I've ever seen of the '70 Rat Patrol car, love to see others if anyone has more.
As many here know, '69 ZL1 #54 was purchased by Cliff Bristow Motors and Alum' 427 immediately yanked/swapped into the new '70 Rat Patrol.
To clarify, these cars are NOT connected w/ Adrian Lima's '69 Camaro or John James' '70 Chevelle also named Rat Patrol.
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~ Pete

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Rolly Johnson's ZL1 powered '70 Camaro Rat Patrol sponsored by Cliff Bristow Motors.
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~ Pete

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Pete, The '70 Camaro ZL1 Rat Patrol picture certainly brings back memories. I used to watch it in action at the Saskatoon International raceway back in the day.

There might be additional photos of it on their website...in the archives section.

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Thanks Zap and very cool you were there w/ an eyeballs view of the action!
Good thought on the SIR Archives, love to see/hear anything more of either Rat Patrol also any other Cliff Bristow Motors cars.
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~ Pete

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Here’s a couple Old Newspaper Ads for ZL1 #54 from May of’69.
Cliff Bristow was advertising it in Calgary also other Ad an Edmonton # but Not Stedelbauer Chevrolet where Cliff got it?
Interesting is Cliff’s Ad notes 4-wheel Disc, this nor any ZL1 was JL8…was it?:hmmm:
Being May ‘69, the’70 Rat Patrol car wasn’t there yet so Cliff had the ‘69 ZL1 for a few months before pulling engine.
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~ Pete

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Nope, no JL8 COPO Camaros. Did have the special HD BE code 4.10 posi axle.

A few had 4.56 gears via COPO 9511.

Probably not 600 HP either, but hey, it all made for good copy in the newspaper ad :wink:

Nope. Bill Porterfield did a rebuild on one of the production engines many years ago. 524 hp with open headers.

Mine put out 540 HP with a bone stock rebuild (with only modern bearings, rings, bolts etc.) with open headers.