[Nick S]

I went on a short vacation last week over by Detroit area (had to make a visit to Katech with my 2007 Z06). While over there we went to the Henry Ford Museum. GM sponsored a new large area in the museum called "Driven to Win"

This area is all about performance cars. To my surprise sitting there is the 2018 ZL1 1LE test car that was used to set the Nurburgring lap time. It has the race seats and roll bar still installed in it. Here are some pics I thought I would share!

[red6.2]

3280lbs?

[sandm]

very cool and neat that it's a henry ford museum with chevy product...

[Tim M]

Cool!

[Jofu]

Originally Posted by red6.2

3280lbs?

LOL that’s the first thing I noticed as well More like 3850lbs, isn’t it?

All the same, this is still a pretty cool display!

Geoff

[MBSS1LE]

Originally Posted by Jofu

LOL that’s the first thing I noticed as well More like 3850lbs, isn’t it?

All the same, this is still a pretty cool display!

Geoff

I'm pretty sure that GM knows the actually weight of the car on display that was used to set the time. I know we would all like to think that all they did was put a rollbar in an otherwise factory production vehicle, but that is not reality.

Nonetheless, it is cool that the OP had the chance to check it out in-person.

[Nick S]

Originally Posted by red6.2

3280lbs?

It's probably a typo because I believe the official curb weight is actually 3820lbs for a ZLE. So they transposed the middle two digits. Easy to do when typing something like that up.

[Nick S]

Originally Posted by sandm

very cool and neat that it's a henry ford museum with chevy product...

Surprisingly the Henry Ford Museum is actually a lot less about Ford Motor Company than many would think. Yes there is some Ford history in there but mostly dealing with Henry Ford when he started the assembly lines and stuff like that.
Otherwise the rest of the Museum is more of total historical museum and even has a lot of displays that are totally unrelated to cars. There was a historical furniture display, a huge locomotive train that was the largest steam engine made, there was cultural history displays, the chair president Lincoln was shot in, The Rosa Parks bus, and even a "Generations" exhibit that displayed popular items and such from the different generations like "baby boomers", "generation X", etc....

It is a neat museum to visit and I think it's a museum that the entire family can enjoy.

[RUQWIKR]

Too bad the Camaro team didn't get approval to take the ZL1 1LE A10 over there. If weather was similar, it would have beat the time from the M6.