1969 ZL1 Copo Camaro Test, Prepped by Dick Harrell -Motor Trend

[JoeC]

I was looking through some old ZL-1 posts and found one from Bill Porterfield about ZL-1 #2 and #5. He said when he was putting the info together for the Hooper book in 1990 he assumed that #1 and #2 were the cars tested by Dick Harrell but later thought that the ones in the article were #1 and #5.

The 1969 article he used stated that the street ZL-1 in the test article was set up for Shay Nichols (#5).

Bill said Nichols purchased the #5 car from Fred Gibb on 5/7/69 and #2 was purchased by a guy in Oklahoma on 3/6/69.

I assume Bill got the info and dates from Fred Gibb.

If the article was done before the first race , it had to be before Jan 23, 1969.

#2 and #5 are both Dusk Blue TH400 cars so may have been easy to mix them up.

[William]

The info came from the Gibb dealership ledger for the ZL-1s. Bill had much of the dealership paperwork for 34 years, did basically nothing with it. The files were sold to a private collector last year; finally got to see them. 10 hours was not nearly enough, making a return visit soon.

#5 was a career race car, not known to exist.