[matt murphy]

Jeff,

Hooking up original engines with original cars is as much fun as finding a rare car. An engine builder called me last year and said that a guy brought into his shop 2 ZL1 motors. One CE block and the other had a VIN on it. He read 4 of the 6 numbers that he was sure of and it matched Gary Holubs old car. I called Gary and he sold it weeks before that. I got a story about the original motor from Gary that matched up with this guys story on where he found the two motors. I put the new owner of Gary's ZL1 in touch with the guy that had it and thought it would be a happy reunion . . . NOT. The guy that had the motors would not sell or trade it to the ZL1 owner, except I think he wanted a motor in trade and $50K for just the original block. The guy here built a Garnet Red clone of the original car. I saw it last weekend. The clone car was beautiful, but I am still very disappointed that the motor swap didn't happen. GREED is all I can say . . . [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsdown.gif[/img] OH, the other ZL1 CE motor was rebuilt and an exact clone to ZL1#51 (Reggie's car) was built and it is very nicely done. Right down to the Brooks Chevrolet dealer tag. I am not sure if I like the idea of building an original CLONE to one of these cars.