Missing ZL-1's

[JoeC]

Pete, from what I have found, that picture on your web page is from the 1969 press preview. The car was orange not red. The same car was used at the 1970 press preview with even more modifications. It had a prototype LT2 aluminum 454. The white car is a 1968 Corvette test mule that Zora used with a ZL1 engine with the block painted orange to look like an L88. The white 68 may be the other Corvette used at the 1970 press preview with a new paint job but I can't tell for sure from the pictures. They really did do the neutral drop starts at the 1970 press preview. There is a Gib Hufstader interview in a Mike Mueller book where Gif talked about the orange ZL1 drag car. He said they did 20 or 30 runs doing 6000rpm neutral drops testing the transmission also trying to get the quickest ET which was 10.89 @ 130mph. When it was brought back to Chevy engineering it was disassembled and found to have a severely cracked flex plate. They said it looked like it would have blown up on the next run.