Numero Uno #1 ZL1

[Mr70]

Bill brought this car to 2003 Super car reunion @ Collinsville when Joel Rosen,Marty Schorr,Gary Kupfer,Phil Tesio & John Mahler spoke.He had it at the Gateway track the day before,and I'll never forget when he started it up to race,but drove around the whole perimeter of the race track to get the oil pressure up first.The noise it made was like the Space Shuttle buzzing overhead..You couldn't help but hear it,no matter where at the track you were.Just watching that car launch was a sight to behold.Driving it into the show hall was just as sound deafening.
He was going to race Ken Barnhart,but Kens' ZL-1 had issues that day.
He also brought it to the Fred Gibb Memorial Car show in La Harpe in August 2006,and there was never NOT a crowd around it all day.

[ORIGLS6]

Not trying to upstage everyone's stories about #1, but Fred and Herb raced the car at our 1/8 mile AHRA strip back in 69/70 when they ran with a Midwest SS group. We booked them a number of times for special events at our track. That's where I first met them both. As a result of that meeting I made the deal to trade my '68 SS396 Chevelle for a new Black LS-6 in the tower of our track after one of those shows.
They had won the race and were in the tower to collect their winning$. I asked Herb about the new 450 HP 454, and said I had talked to some local dealers. Some of them denied the 450 HP version even existed, and others shied away from the Hi-Perf cars citing reliability and horror stories with GM re: warranty work. Herb's reply, with his trademark big grin; "do we look like we're afraid of Hi-Performance engines?"
Sure wish I could relive those days!

[ORIGLS6]

This is probably the last time Herbie sat in the car. August 6, 2011 at the show in LaHarpe. I believe the car was owned by Joe Zrostlic (sp?) at the time. (Some other semi-famous dude wearing suspenders standing in the background. )