The most "significant" Chevrolet performance car.

[Les Quam]

Enough about your book already that was about as shameless a plug as you will ever find! One car book doesn't make you Earnest Hemingway you know? LOL LOL
Although it was a nice chapter on the ZL-1s.

[quick-bowtie]

Colin beat me to it but I agree the Estes Z car.. That car is just plain awesome.

[Charley Lillard]

I consider the Estes car a one off special built car so it wouldn't fit in my comparison to the RS ZL1. I would still rather have the ZL1 though.

[92646]

Colin, what other Z/28 convertible are you referring to?
Mark Sheppard

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I had this in a Z28 file, not sure of the story. It can't be real? I do recall the gashole issue though.

[Verne_Frantz]

My 2cents:
I think Kwizz was close.
In the entire history of Chevrolet, there was never a more "designed from scratch", full package, under one RPO number, race purpose vehicle than the '63 Impala Z-11. IF you look at everything that car had under ONE RPO #, strickly built for racing only, (with only 50 produced just to have NHRA sanction) there was never another Chevrolet produced with so many specific packaged features for one purpose.

Verne

[flyingn]

I'd lean towards the 65 Z15 Chevelle. Chevrolet's first big motored mid sized car....

[67rscoupe]

Great!now don't tell me this car will be at the next mecum auction selling for $800k.


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I had this in a Z28 file, not sure of the story. It can't be real? I do recall the gashole issue though.

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[Les Quam]

You guys are talking about generic non specific rare cars with the exception of the Z-28 CV mentioned by Colin.

The reason the unrestored blue ZL-1 is arguably the holy grail of muscle cars is because it is a rare car like many that have been discussed in this excellent thread BUT its condition and options for what should have been a race car like most ZL-1s were is what it sets it apart from the rest.

An original unrestored unmolested highly optioned RS ZL-1 with a documented history makes it number one Chevy IMHO. If the Z-28 CV mentioned by Colin is unrestored then it has to be up there except that the ZL-1 is a much stronger running car than the Z-28. Big block Chevy is really the pinnacle of 60s performance I think?

Now a really interesting discussion is this? I think Charley's not so super snake is the number one most significant Ford muscle car ever built since we are excluding Vettes and Cobra's as sportscars and not muscle cars. Here is the query, between the blue unrestored Zl-1 and Charley's not so super snake which is more historically significant? We need a Mopar muscle car candidate a specific car perhaps a Pontiac and an Olds and lets get ready to rumble and choose the holy grail of muscle cars?

[Verne_Frantz]

Are we including "one-offs" or dealer conversions in this query, or are we looking at an RPO'd vehicle completely designed by Chevrolet and offered to the public?