Queen City Camaros - a couple of Dandies!

[William]

There were 13 Fathom Green ZL1s. 10 were ordered by and delivered to Fred Gibb Chev. The other three were ordered and sold by Scuncio in RI, Seltzer in OK and Lavery in OH. If Queen City did obtain a FG ZL1 it had to be a former Gibb Chev car. Of the FG Gibb cars 8 have known histories including their initial re-issue dealerships, Queen City not being one of them. Two do not list a re-issue dealership: #36 N612913 4-speed and #45 N618522 automatic. Entirely possible Gibb sold them. #36 still exists, #45 is in the wind.

Queen City was 10 miles from the Norwood plant. By the end of May, 37 Gibb ZL1s were back at the Norwood plant and Chevy was calling performance dealers trying to get rid of them. It isn’t hard to imagine that Queen City was contacted but to date no ZL1 Camaro has a solid history tracing back to Queen City. And why wouldn't a $7300 Camaro be listed in the January 1970 newspaper ad?

[R68GTO]

Originally Posted by William

There were 13 Fathom Green ZL1s. 10 were ordered by and delivered to Fred Gibb Chev. The other three were ordered and sold by Scuncio in RI, Seltzer in OK and Lavery in OH. If Queen City did obtain a FG ZL1 it had to be a former Gibb Chev car. Of the FG Gibb cars 8 have known histories including their initial re-issue dealerships, Queen City not being one of them. Two do not list a re-issue dealership: #36 N612913 4-speed and #45 N618522 automatic. Entirely possible Gibb sold them. #36 still exists, #45 is in the wind.

Queen City was 10 miles from the Norwood plant. By the end of May, 37 Gibb ZL1s were back at the Norwood plant and Chevy was calling performance dealers trying to get rid of them. It isn’t hard to imagine that Queen City was contacted but to date no ZL1 Camaro has a solid history tracing back to Queen City. And why wouldn't a $7300 Camaro be listed in the January 1970 newspaper ad?

Might intent of posting this ad was simply because I thought the cars were interesting....now I'm curious as can be on the possible ZL-1. I did go back last night and searched ads prior to and after the Jan. 05, 1970 ad I posted. I was not able to find a repeat ad for that car- at least by the same type of description. The only ads I can find mentioning ZL-1 or aluminum 427 are private ads and the ones I found where describing that engine in other vehicles. One was a 55 chevy, the other was a 66 Chevelle I think. If I come up with anything else, I'll post it.