some old holley history, and the first ZL1 proto

[black69]

I have a 1960 big brake corvette that was owned and raced by a guy that worked at Holley, but his office was at GM in detroit. He is listed in the <span style="font-weight: bold">5TH paragraph </span>of the attached article. He helped developed the large holleys that are out there today, in many of our cars. He is since deceased for some yrs now, but I remember him telling me on visits, they never destroyed the black ZL1 Camaro he worked on when I asked about ZL1s. They only made one test car, but it was never destroyed, according to him, and shook his head at the thought.

He spent a lot of time on the road at the proving grounds. Thought I would post this before I forgot what he said.

After clicking through the collection of pictures of the article, it was cool to see how he used air craft pressure strobes (or probes?) to check air flow into the carb....(in the text with the pictures). It sounds like he also had something to do with the L88 hood design! Should have asked about that.

the article is a good read, on its own. What a cool car.

http://www.superchevy.com/features/c...orvette-coupe/