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/

[olredalert]

----This is a good article. Bill Tower is a really nice guy with quite a collection. Along with the L-88 he has one of the original Grand Sports, as well as other significant cars. I should mention that 1966 L-88 Corvettes have been located and even restored. They may have visited the Tech Center, but were built on the assembly line. As well, there may be a possibility of an existing 65 L-88 that was put together at the tech center in 1965......Bill S

[njsteve]

BE CAREFUL OF CLICKING ON THAT LINK ABOVE!!! IT IS CORRUPTED AND SENDS YOU TO ONE OF THOSE &quot;CALL NOW TO UN-INFECT YOUR COMPUTER&quot; WEBSITES.

[Charley Lillard]

It worked fine for me.

[67 Nova Boy]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: njsteve</div><div class="ubbcode-body">BE CAREFUL OF CLICKING ON THAT LINK ABOVE!!! IT IS CORRUPTED AND SENDS YOU TO ONE OF THOSE &quot;CALL NOW TO UN-INFECT YOUR COMPUTER&quot; WEBSITES. </div></div>

X2 for me as well.

Dave
67 Nova Boy

[njsteve]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Charley Lillard</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It worked fine for me. </div></div>

You're probably infected already. Your computer, that is. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/blush.gif[/img]

[Xplantdad]

I didn't have any issues either and I have three different programs that are running at all times [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

Ghostery did show 21 trackers on that link, though