Re: Spoke to cousin of prior owner of my ZL-1 today!!
So I drove to Baltimore today to talk to this mecahnic that knows about my car from back in the day. I still cant believe he still works there. He gave me some bad news and said that he hadnt seen his old friend and second owner of my car "buby" in a while because he actually died about 2 months ago.
He did say that he spoke to his cousin and that he is going to look for pics. He told me that the car was just always racing for fun..never in a class...basically match racing other guys in the area...he did say that it was raced mostly at Capitol?? is that name right? He said it never had any lettering or sponsors..He said buby wrecked the car into a guardrail 2 weeks after he had it and then put a glass nose on it...and that it ran low 11's the day after he bought it totally stock...and after they converted it to a racecar, it did 10.0's with the stock motor and a tunnel-ram...He said it was painted blue but had a silver stripe down the whole side that was located on the upper part of the fenders and doors and QP's...he said they never cut the original rear, but it had real shallow offset wide wheels... he also said they used a "hemi" 4 speed...is that possible?? also that it had all "plastic" windows eventually to lighten it up....
I also drove to the address of the original owner...with no luck...someone answered and never heard of the guy...he would be 70 now...who knows??
anyway...the good news...I have dug up some pics of the motor...the car is on the rotisserie and I am surveying "the damages" aiaiai..hehe
anyway, I will post some pics soon...
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