Re: ZL-1 #1 Mecum May 15 - 17
I have pics of that car from Super Chevy 1990. Bill Porterfield
owned it then and on the way to Indy had a trailer fire and the car was pretty heavily damaged. I kinda knew him at the time and helped him get the car out of the trailer and assess the damage. We got the hood off the car and fixed a couple of things and DID get it running. He drove it around the pits a little, but for safety's sake did not race it then. His arm was burned, but he was hurt more emotionally than physically. I think Bill Porterfield (a retired Oldsmobile engineer) deserves a whole lot of credit for bringing to light not only the car here, but the Camaro ZL-1 in general. At that time, around the late '80s into the early '90s those "Aluminus Raticus" as he used to call them were not as widely known as they are now.
I'm curious to see what this car sells for. It has had a long and storied career; not only as the very first ZL-1, but as a many-time record holder in several classes and sanctioning bodies.
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