How Many Rare Cars Went This Route?

[NickZ]

On a similar note, how many 302's ended up in USAC sprint cars (the class with the 5.0L limit)?

Here's a pic of the original engine for my Z, circa 1974.

[Day2_69Z]

Aluminum ? or white paint ?

[Day2_69Z]

Is that the infamous Zinmaster plague as well ?
Chevy built aluminum fitted lightweight cars & over the counter race parts but NHRA only classified Steel cars ?
kind of switch n switch game some of the racers played from track to track National event to National event ?

The Tedesco brothers here in the Pgh area had a Z11 or Aluminum '62 Car from a famous racer. don't know from whom.???
The car is supposedly still around sans front end. .and a front end is around Western Pa / Eastern Ohio.
but the guys here hunting are mum.
Tom

[PLATINUM6BBL]

Customer of mine was given a 70 Hemi Challenger R/T to run as a dirt track stock car right off the lot in 70. Doesn't remember what happened to it after he was done though.
When Enduro racing was popular here in the late 80's / early 90's I know that a lot of good stuff was lost then. Most memorable to me was a 69 M-code 440 Barracuda fastback.
The one that got "away" so to say to dirt track racin' was reported to be a 69 427 Nova. I had first heard about the car in 82 from a friend in HS. He knew how the 427 met its' death. It then went on to have multiple small blocks in it before landing into another friends hands who turned it into a dirt track car and eventually retired it to his dads farm. When his dad sold the place the car ended up being crushed. If, IF! I can ever find the slip of paper I have the cars' serial number but I've had 2 moves and 25 years since I last saw that paper.

[Verne_Frantz]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Day2_69Z</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Is that the infamous Zinmaster plague as well ?
Chevy built aluminum fitted lightweight cars &amp; over the counter race parts but NHRA only classified Steel cars ?
kind of switch n switch game some of the racers played from track to track National event to National event ?

The Tedesco brothers here in the Pgh area had a Z11 or Aluminum '62 Car from a famous racer. don't know from whom.???
The car is supposedly still around sans front end. .and a front end is around Western Pa / Eastern Ohio.
but the guys here hunting are mum.
Tom </div></div>

Tom,

What I'm saying is that the aluminum cars were not allowed to run in any Stock class. (He slipped by with the inners). In '62 the only aluminum was the fenders, inner fenders and hood. Those cars all ran B/FX. The '63 Z-lls had 13 different pieces of aluminum (but no longer any inner fenders) and they ran A/FX after the Winternationals. IF Chevy had provided a list of 50 VINs to NHRA, they could have run Super Stock. When they first showed up at the Winternationals, they had no class because Chevy provided them with a list of only roughly 40 cars and they invented a class for them - LP (Limited Production), which meant they all ran against each other. Pissed a lot of people off.

Verne [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[Day2_69Z]

impressive ,, I feel some cars look so much better as race cars ....as raced.
I had a 300 horse hardtop SS in Roman Red w/ Red interior but it didn't have &quot;that race car dress on&quot;.

[PLATINUM6BBL]

I remember when going to Lernerville Speedway as a kid mid to late 70's that they had a demo derby quite often. On one occasion they had a Superbird compete. Guy must of thought that nosecone would help keep the competition from getting to the radiator too fast......

[DWR]

I was talking to an older body man at a local Chevrolet dealership about racing and he told me he turned a Z-16 into a dirt track car back in the day. Back then nothing was sacred.

[Day2_69Z]

In retrospect, any and all cars were made to be used, USED &amp; Abused in ways any body could or would for our status, egos, bravado and to an end of the means, Alot of people who did this, racers or not really have no interest in going back in time in a nostalgic way we do .. to appreciate ,honor,duplicate and build our own in traditions of days past.......

This is a very intriguing thread for many reasons......

[Day2_69Z]

More please

More, many more.....much more ...
Please !!!

all this kinda puts and keeps things in perspective.