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!!!

[Charley Lillard]

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This question was bandied around on LS1 tech and the responses ran into the thousands. Since the term significant was chosen I think the Estes car stands alone. Had it not been built,you might have seen about five consecutive years of Manufacturers championships for ford in the T/A series. Five decades of the RPO..how many others lasted more than one?. From a valuation standpoint which would fetch more at say BJ,that(or any) ZL1 or the Estes car?. Don't get me wrong I love the ZL1's but all 69 don't add up to the influence that vert had in changing chevy history in both production and racing.

(Ken,i'm with ya brother)


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It sounds like you are saying the Estes car was the reason Z28's were built but I think I remember that being proven untrue by the fact that they were either already announced or being built by the time the Estes car was built ?

[Late BrakeU2]

No,Piggens got the green light from Estes almost two years before that car was built on 7/15/68. I think the car was more a thanks from the engineers for him approving the 67 program,it certainly helped the RPO transcend time.