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Originally Posted by shaffe
I will disagree with that. I have been trying to type out a response for about ten minutes and can't think of how to say it with out offending anyone haha. So i'll give this a shot and this is just my opinion.
yes the Z/28 was great in its racing career in the Trans Am series but as far as on the street more people were attracted to the big block cars. My dad was 20 in 1969 and if you wanted to be known as the fastest guy in town you had a big block car.
The first gen Z/28 is very desirable today because they were rare and I think people appreciate now the history associated with the car, and I think that is where some of the thought it has to be this super special car comes from.
Basically I don't recall people ever calling a Z/28 the halo top of the line Camaro untill the 5th gen went all out and made it that way
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Your points are all true but the Z/28 names trumps the 1LE so the idea of a 1LE package on the Z/28 is counterintuitive. Chevy also made it clear in the 5th gen that they will protect that badge going forward. Maybe "
retire its number" if a suitable car can't be built
You can also see that Chevy's priorities have changed since your Dad's day. World class handling, rather than numb straight line rockets, and the ZL1 shows that. The ZL1's straight line performance is adequate for what the competition has already done but it excels by what it can also do on the track. The priority was not building a better Hellcat or GT500.
My opinion regarding the ZL1-1LE... Use a package to set the track performance bar high for the rumored GT500.