The most "significant" Chevrolet performance car.

[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.

[Chevy454]

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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


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EXCELLENT point, Jeff...if nothing else, the SBC should get it's own paragraph for changing the hot rodding landscape for years and years to come!

IMO, the true answer to the original question is probably more of a "personal" thing, ya know? Someone mentioned a bubbletop back in Chi-town that started it for them...someone else mentioned seeing a 'Vette and beginning the love affair...me, I've always told dad that ZL1 #3 would be near the top, but Barnhart's car trumps that hands down and is probably my #1 or #1a...but, being a Chevelle guy deep down, I've always thought the red LS6 on the brochure hooked a LOT of folks back in the day, plus I might happen to know where a *fairly* decent & historic example might be parked!

[ORIGLS6]

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I've always told dad that ZL1 #3 would be near the top, but Barnhart's car trumps that hands down and is probably my #1 or #1a...

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An opinion shared by many! And in my humble opinion, THE most valuable ZL-1 currently in existance.

[sYc]

A couple that really hooked folks, as Rob said, the LS-6 Chevelle ad, and one that really got my attention back in the day, the Motion ad guarantying 11 sec. ¼ times.

My personal list would be:
Grumpy’s ’67 Camaro,
Barnhart's ZL-1
Morrison's Gibb Nova
Grand Sport Corvette
Hedrick's '69 Yenko Camaro
Any other of Grumpy’s cars
Gibb ZL-1 #1
Gibb ’68 “race” Nova
The Camaro Don Yenko won the Daytona Citrus 250 in.
The Sunoco road race Camaro
Berger ZL-1 #3

[SBR]

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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.


[/ QUOTE ] I have to agree, the white /blue 67 L88 conv. that raced at LeMans, Daytona, Sebring is my persoanl favorite. It still retains its original motor too. Anyone who is in the Chicago area during the last weekend of June should stop by the Bloomington Gold show to check out the L88 invasion. I am told that there will be 60 cars in attendance. I will be there with my red 69, stop by and say hello.