Camaro Z/28 with JL8 question

[William]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: travlnz28</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I own a plain Jane (307, a/c, 4 speed) JL8 car and in talking to a few &quot;experts&quot; in my early days of ownership (about 10 years now) I was told closer to 100 built than 200. Of course Chevrolet had to say there were 200 built to use the brake system in Trans Am racing. </div></div>

Not true. Like the cross-ram, which was never an option, all Chevy had to establish was that JL8 was available to anyone. The Chevy engineer in charge of developing the option was at Road America several years ago for a vintage Corvette feature. I asked him about this and he stated the SCCA felt they had been deceived in allowing Chevy to run it in '68 when it wasn't really available. So for '69 they wanted proof and accompanied a racer to a dealer to personally witness the purchase of a factory-built Camaro with JL8. The '68 FIA homologation documents are curious. The photos show front and rear disc brakes but refer to them as J56.

In addition to the one I briefly owned there were several other JL8 Z/28s in the immediate area. I have seen probably a dozen others in my time and have copies of factory documents for several more. I see no reason to question the production figure of 206 cars.

[Stefano]

If anything, I would guess that there were more than 206 built. Not saying that that is the case, but based on the number of documented cars I have seen over the years as well as info from original owners.......it just makes me think.

It would be interesting to know how many are in the CRG data base.

The original owner of my former Garnet Red RS JL8 (Thanks Jeff) actually bought two new JL8s. The other one was Hugger Orange.

Ed's former JL8 resides in a collection here in Chicago Land.

[William]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Stefano</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It would be interesting to know how many are in the CRG data base.</div></div>

40, with some culling of questionable cars. The two JL8 cars from Dale Chev [yellow/yellow RS &amp; orange/orange X77] are not included.

[William]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: William</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Stefano</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It would be interesting to know how many are in the CRG data base.</div></div>

40, with some culling of questionable cars. The two JL8 cars from Dale Chev [yellow/yellow RS &amp; orange/orange X77] are not included. </div></div>

Just looked at an old photo; orange JL8 was X33.

[Stefano]

Thks.