[Charles]

WHITE WHITE YELLOW RED & GOLD? The first white ZL-1 started life as a 1968 Corvette roadster. It was a sort of prototype for the option, built by Chevrolet engineering. The second car was the white 1969 coupe with a serial number under 7000. It was customer ordered to be raced. The yellow coupe followed much later with a serial number over 29000. This car was ordered by a GM engineer at the engine plant. The red coupe is more of a question since it started out as just a 427. Chevy did not have 1970 cars to show the journalists for the July 1969 long lead press preview. To keep them happy they brought out some performance cars for testing. One of the cars was the red ZL-1 coupe with a M40 transmission. A dragstrip was created at "Black Lake" but the red coupe saw limited use because someone took out the top end timing lights early in the day! This car had 180 degree headers, mag wheels and slicks. The car was locked in drive so that the expensive engine would not go over the rev limit. None of the journalists bothered to ask what engine was in the red Corvette. The Gold ZL-1 roadster has been mentioned elsewhere. It is said to have paperwork and looked real according to an author who was researching a book. It remains a question mark.