The story first appears in the 1990 Crispino-Hooper book :"Chevrolet Indy Pace Car Book" Where the sources interviewed all tell the same story that AJ turned down the original award car because "it got hot in Texas" and told Chevrolet to build him another car with AC, and as the story goes the sources for the book stated that the car that was specially built for AJ was built in the same run as the Canadian cars.
Also same story in support the Foyt award car being built in the Canadian run was again repeated from different sources in the 1992 USCC Pace car registry report:
Participants were:
Ken Moorhead Matt Murphy, Bob Harris, Jim Hariston, and Mark Campbell.
But who knows they could all be wrong - and the guy on E-bay could be right!!!
Geez for a while people were under the impression that Yenkos were only sold at Cannonsburg.
Oh but there is more.. the good folks over at
www.67pacecartrust.com are chopping this car up pretty good right now. Surf over and have a look in the general discussion area.
Did you get a chance to check on the Z-11 info??
Thanks
Phil