I was looking through some old ZL-1 posts and found one from Bill Porterfield about ZL-1 #2 and #5. He said when he was putting the info together for the Hooper book in 1990 he assumed that #1 and #2 were the cars tested by Dick Harrell but later thought that the ones in the article were #1 and #5.
The 1969 article he used stated that the street ZL-1 in the test article was set up for Shay Nichols (#5).
Bill said Nichols purchased the #5 car from Fred Gibb on 5/7/69 and #2 was purchased by a guy in Oklahoma on 3/6/69.
I assume Bill got the info and dates from Fred Gibb.
If the article was done before the first race , it had to be before Jan 23, 1969.
#2 and #5 are both Dusk Blue TH400 cars so may have been easy to mix them up.
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