ZL1 #51 at Barrett-Jackson

**quick-bowtie** · #1 12-31-2006, 03:30 AM

This car is going to be at Barrett anyone here own it? It says original engine. Whats the story and what are the guesses to what it will bring? Id still love to own one of these cars.

**quick-bowtie** · #2 12-31-2006, 03:30 AM

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/carli...LotNumber=1314

link to page

**rich p** · #3 12-31-2006, 04:09 AM

Reggie Jackson car !! Listen very closely, you can hear a pin drop ...

the restorer replaced all the body panels from the firewall back to restore it to original condition and keep the integrity of the car.

Frontend was mint and ONLY had to replace from firewall back??

nuch_ss396 · #4 12-31-2006, 04:46 AM

2/3 of the original sheet metal doesn't survive, but the
fragile aluminum 427 engine does.......

Here I go again with this question - again.

I had often heard that structurally, the original ZL-1
blocks were not nearly all that they were cracked-up to be
( excuse the pun ). So how did so many ZL-1's retain their
original engines? They were all-out race cars and built
for pedal to the medal stuff !

Some day, we may learn how many ZL-1's actually retained
their original engines. That goes for COPO's, Yenko's, etc..

I can't be the only one that finds it odd that so many race cars
would retain the one component prone to failure - the engine.

Steve

**Charley Lillard** · #5 12-31-2006, 04:51 AM

Actually I hooked Reggie up with another member here that had the orig block for 51. It was damaged and Reggie spent a bunch of dough repairing it but it does have the orig block now.

**quick-bowtie** · #6 12-31-2006, 05:20 AM

I know all that steel metal replacement kinda scares me off but if it was raced you never know what happened.. Does anyone know who restoration on it or more importantly if the hidden vins are there and not messed with? with all that metal replacement it might sell for alot less.. I gotta givem him credit for disclosing all the metal replacement. Wasnt this car at the spring Mecum auction I seem to remember a White ZL1 there? could be thinking of some other car though.

nuch_ss396 · #7 12-31-2006, 05:29 AM

Charley,

This is interesting! Can you answer a few questios for me?

Roughly, how badly was the block damaged? Any missing pieces?

Who saves, or for that matter, buys a blown ZL-1 block?
Was it retained for sentimental value, or possible future $$ value?

I'm asking because I read somewhere that GM cast maybe 50
or so additional ZL-1 blocks back in the day. Almost
every one I have seen from that period had been badly damaged. Is that the norm for these engines?

Steve

**Stefano** · #8 12-31-2006, 05:34 AM

Lamar Walden who raced the car also initially restored it himself. The car was at the Mecum Rockford Spring Classic and at B/J a few years ago.

69motion · #9 12-31-2006, 06:08 AM

i sold an orig zl1 motor that said 305 of 500 on side of block with orig rear numbers

nuch_ss396 · #10 12-31-2006, 06:17 AM

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i sold an orig zl1 motor that said 305 of 500 on side of block with orig rear numbers

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Jeff !

500 blocks?! I didn't think the number was that high.
Does anyone know if they cast all 500? Anyone ever see
a higher sequence number than 305? Were they all cast
with "n" of 500 on them?

Steve

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