Cedar Rapids COPO ?

[COPO_Anders]

This a pic taken 1986 in Ed Slagers garage in Cedar Rapids of the ZL-1 block that my friend Dick Stagmo bought from Red Dralle in Waterloo,Iowa. I hoped to find my notes of the numbers on the block, but no I didn´t find them.

[Racefan]

Are you sure you don't mean Ed Sanger's garage? Or, as he was known in the Iowa dirt tracks....Fast Eddie? Was that ZL1 block one of the 69 or an over the counter?

[COPO_Anders]

No Phil, his name was Slager. He worked as a butcher.
The way I remember it the block was decked but had a partial VIN. I know I made a note of every stamp and number on that block, but I can´t find it today.

[Schonyenko2]

Have you tried to find Ed Slager? I can see if some of my nova people up there can find him if you want.

[1969l78]

Love those old nut hugger shorts from back in the day

[COPO_Anders]

Ed helped us finding an apartment and let us use his garage to gather the original hiperf stuff we bought. But he wasn´t really interested in it, that´s how I remember it.
Ed, Becky and their son Aaron lived on 1819 Washington Ave SE. I´d be glad to get in touch with them again.
That´s their black car in the background. A Monte Carlo Aero coupe ? Don´t remember more than that Ed talked about the rearwindow and Nascar. Was it special ?

[Schonyenko2]

I'll see if I can dig him up. Yes on the monte. The rear window was special. It was more areodynamic for nascar racing.

[olredalert]

------Anders,,,Montes did have an aerodynamic rear window, but unfortunatly thats not it. The car in the pic is a 79 or so Caprice.........Bill S

[COPO_Anders]

But the rear window on that car still had to do with Nascar, didn´t it ?

[jannes_z-28]

Yes I think that is a 79 Caprice.

When I was in Chicago in May 1979 AVIS gave me one such Caprice because they didn't have the smaller car I had reserved in advance. I didn't complain about that I still remember that rear window.


Jan