[William]

Whatever happened to the Merollis ZL1s occurred in the fall of 1969. By the time of the inquiry the story was already 12 years old so who knows. The story, such as it was, was all five were taken, stripped of their engines/transmissions and other parts and left/dumped someplace. Since they couldn’t be easily moved it is likely they were abandoned wherever they were stripped.

Complicating the issue as new cars they weren’t titled; still on MSO. They were in the possession of the dealer but may have been legally owned by GMAC. Nothing new for them; they probably had thousands of damaged/theft recovered vehicles to process every year. The remains were likely taken to a salvage auction and sold; the new owner gets the MSO. From there who knows? At least two of them were reconstructed and legally registered. The other three may have gone to salvage yards, never to be titled or registered. They would be eventually parted out and destroyed. Maybe one was made into a race car also never titled. Stolen cars that are not recovered are titled to the insurance company that paid the claim and now legally owns them. #43 was stolen in 1972 and is still titled to an insurance company. Three of the Merollis ZL1s had no registration last I checked. That is not to say they were never registered; they just were not at that time. Expired registrations drop off after a few years. There is a difference between title and registration; I do not know if the searches I did looked for both but #43 always came up.