12-29-2011, 09:26 PM
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Drives: SS,PaceCar,ZL1,1LE,C7Z51,Z06,17-ZL1
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Detroit, Mich
Posts: 68,623
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Originally Posted by LOWDOWN
Re: '02 Camaros- No, those were built by GMMG/Matt Murphy(I think...). Actually, Dick Harrell died in 1971 at a drag strip outside Toronto (Georgetown, actually) in a Funny Car accident when a front tire let go at the "Big End"...which, unfortunately, WAS his big end...
Dick, through a small Chev dealer in LaHarpe IL by the name of Fred Gibb, solicited Vince Piggins (Chevrolet Product Promotion) to authorize a Central Office Production Order (coded #9560) for 50 '69 Camaros with all-aluminum 427s from the Corvette. Those cars became known as "ZL1"s (after the Corvette option code for that-there screamin' engine), 19 others were ordered by other dealers...and a BUNCH were returned by Gibb to Chevrolet when the invoices showed up with an option price that was about 150% of a Base Camaro's price! $4,130 was a HUGE amount of money...for an ENGINE Package...in 1969!!!
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I like this thread!!!
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