Re: ZL-1 Race cars
Put this up as we had been discussing Don's Sebring car. I believe the opinon is that
Don's car was not a "factory" ZL-1. I believe Bob's was (or that's what he told me).
Car won the Australian production car championship for two years. Was eventually
effectively banned as Cams the sports ruling body put a engine cap of 6 litres on the class (If you can't beat them ban them)on the interests of fairer competion. Car still was campaigned for many years but what happened to it through that time is TOO painful to discuss. Have you ever seen a REAR engined powered Camaro.
It is especially memorable as its main opposition was one of the KAR KRAFT mustangs.(I think). Anyway Ford built 7 special Boss 302s for the Trans am. 6 were team cars and this was a spare given to Moffatt. It was supposed to dominate our series. Ford obviously didn't think of the ZL-1.
Very close racing from these two cars, though according to Bob and his team members it was not as close as it looked. They always felt they had the mustang.
Have you ever looked at the racing bosses and wonderd what they did to drop the noses down so low?
Also I forgot where I come from. The first photo should have been captioned with.
JoeC call that a Camaro race car......This is a CAMARO RACE CAR. (with apologies to Mick Dundee)
Terry
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