[GMH454]

Joe what is the source for the photos. Is that the Daytona 1969.I guess they ran them as Z28s. When you factor in the huge amount of rebody updates and paint changes the number of race cars start to shrink dramatically.
Yes this orange ZL-1 is 33#.
I have heard the storey that the owner ran the other car in drags for years, but facts at this stage don't back it up.

Firstly Bob Jane was a roundy roundy racer. Won our most prestigous production car championship about 5 times. As a business man and owner of two of Australia's major motor sport complex's his company just closed down competitive drag racing at those venues. Get the idea. I don't think Bob likes Drag racing.

Secondly he only had the two engines from the ZL-1s. He lunched one engine during the two years of campainging the orange car and they "borrowed" the engine from the Blue car. The blue one therefore only had a ZL-1 block for less than 2 years. They stuck a 350 in it and it may have raced with that.

Thirdly I had the luck to browse through our only drag racing newspaper at the offices of the publisher when researching my car (storey for another time)looked through 1967 to 1975 and the only ZL-1 photo I saw I will put up on the weekend. It was the same meeting that a group of circuit racers attended including Moffat and THE Boss 302. Matter of fact almost no camaro cars raced. Our Monaros have the same wheel base were lighter and were factory fitted with small block chevies.

Sorry to go on but I have had Americans tell me about Jane for a while, only talked to him once, he is not a well man, gave him a mag with a ZL-1 advert (you probably know the one) could'nt believe that I was'nt trying to sell it, he gave me two huge autographed posters by return mail. Neat guy.