1969 ZL1 Vette?

[The Boss]

Gary (muscle_collector) I was thinking again about our conversation yesterday and have to think the text and e-mail you got were the result of too many uncle-brother-cousin once had stories. That when these guys get confronted with an actual recollection from a no bull kind of guy like yourself, they naturally find it hard to believe.

For those of you who don't know Gary, here's a picture that I'm pretty sure has been posted here before (probably by Steve Hoog), it's Gary's garage taken years ago. Just so you know what you are looking at, at least one of those TA's is a IV, the blue convertible with the black top is the 71 4spd Judge Convertible Milt restored in it's day-2 Cadillac hue and correct me if I'm wrong but was that your 69 TA convertible under the white cover in the back that Rob now has?

If Gary tells a story, you can damn well bet it's true.

[PeteLeathersac]

Originally Posted by Drew Papsun

What model year was the Pontiac ?
Thanks,
Drew

Looks like a '64?

~ Pete

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[442w30]

Originally Posted by PeteLeathersac

Looks like a '64?

Yes, that's correct.

The '64 2+2 is more like an Impala SS than a GTO. In 1965, it truly became a performance package.

[duskblue]

duntov's toy was thrashed at the proving grounds not trashed.

[Tracker1]

Originally Posted by duskblue

duntov's toy was thrashed at the proving grounds not trashed.

What a great day to be alive this must have been. The sounds out of those pipes at full song must have been heavenly.

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Tracker1

What a great day to be alive this must have been. The sounds out of those pipes at full song must have been heavenly.

When I transferred from the assembly plant into engineering, the guy I replaced (he was retiring) had worked for Duntov.

He said Duntov would fire that stuff up right in the Chevrolet Engineering building and then go "rump rump"-ing through the hallways and out to the test track at the Tech Center.

He also said you had to keep your eyes (and ears) open or you'd get run over.

K

[Lee Stewart]

The Vintage All-Aluminum 427 Big-Block Chevy V-8

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/vint...lock-chevy-v8/

Just showed up today

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

The first one has font issues....

[1971ls6]

The motor stamp numbers are different, one in August and the other October? One has the 427 motor listed as $1,000 plus the $3,000 alluminum ZL1 the other just the $3k.

[Tracker1]

So I looked at Judski's yellow car's tank sticker (thanks rsinor) and it is way different than the Maher car. As the yellow car is the gold standard and is a known ZL1 since the late 1970s
(Vette Vues Magazine in March 1980), the tank sticker has L88 as the listed RPO FIRST, then down near the bottom is ZL1 ALUMINUM CYLINDER BLOCK. Which is what I found weird about the orange car's sticker: no mention of L88. It should be there as the ZL1 block is simply a substitution INTO the L88 package on a Corvette, replacing the L88s iron block.

My 2 cents, and THIS IS JUST LITTLE OLD ME EXPRESSING AN OPINION, not disparaging the car or John Maher (unless he paid for fake docs then that's fraud), but even if I had the money to have Kevin McKay restore a Corvette for me - and that must be astronomical $$ - it would NOT be the Maher car. There's just owner oral history there, and that's not enough. I don't trust the docs on the Orange car, now, as far as I could throw them.

Vette Vues March 1980 picture of tank sticker for yellow ZL1 Coupe, compare to Maher car tank sticker I posted earlier.