The most "significant" Chevrolet performance car.

[66 L78 ragtop]

The most "significant" Chevrolet performance car?
Sounds like a rhetorical qustions...everyone knows it was the 1967 Camaro RS/SS 396 4spd Indianapolis 500 Pacecar!!!

[JChlupsa]

significant car or shall i say cars would be any 55 Chevy with a V-8. had that V-8 not been introduced in 55, none of the others would have been where they are today

[x Baldwin Motion]

significant:

4. having great power or influence

As far as a model of car it would be hard to argue the "significance" of the 65 Chevelle Z16. That is what turned street muscle into a big block frenzy.
A particular example of this car would be the prototype which is right here on this site with Dave M.

[Charley Lillard]

I'm startin to like this 66 L78 ragtop guy.

[Paul_S]

Too many to choose from... Just production huh?

'55 265 Corvette & Passenger
'57 FI "283HP" Corvette
'57 Passenger FI (Black Widow was factory race only)
'62 409 + Lightweight cars
'63 Z-11
'63 Z06
'65 Z-16
'65 L-78
'66 L-72
'66 L-79 Chevy II/Nova
'67+ L-88's
'69 ZL1

[Shankin]

I will put my vote in for the original grand sport corvettes.

[Canada George]

My vote is for the L88/ZL1 Corvettes. One RPO number assured you of a complete factory-built race car, an entire PACKAGE of mandatory components and unavailable items designed for and tested on the proving grounds of the world’s greatest racing circuits, Le Mans, Sebring, and Daytona.

L88/ZL1 Corvette… not simply Chevrolet’s pinnacled race gas-only fueled 560HP+ engine sitting in America’s great sports car; a top-of-the-line racing machine.

No other car mentioned in this poll could outperform these giants… in speed, handling, braking… PERFORMANCE and made available to the buying public.

That’s SIGNIFICANT.

[Terry24]

Heres a question to go along with this thread........are we talking car or motor or both? I think it would be extremely hard to pick just one car, with the Blue Flame engine, first V-8, Bel Airs, lightweights, Grand Sports, COPO, ZL-1, etc..if you think about it, all of the cars everyone has mentioned is in a class by themselves, hard to compare and contrast.

[firstgenaddict]

63 GS Vette with the Aluminum motor and side draft webbers... IMHO "The Holy Grail"

[Canucklehead]

How come nobody has mentioned the father of muscle cars, the GTO!. Sure it's a pontiac but still a GM product. I would have to say the Corvette. With all it's incantations through the years and continuing to be a leading contender in the performance world gives it the #1 spot for me. As far as the most significant corvette?, depends who you ask, for me being a musclehead i would say the 69 Zl1, ask a racer, collector, geezer, you'll get different answers. For contributions to GM credit the vette far exceeds any other model. THE BLUE DEVIL!!!, nuff said.