ZL1 #51 at Barrett-Jackson

[nuch_ss396]

2/3 of the original sheet metal doesn't survive, but the
fragile aluminum 427 engine does.......

Here I go again with this question - again.

I had often heard that structurally, the original ZL-1
blocks were not nearly all that they were cracked-up to be
( excuse the pun ). So how did so many ZL-1's retain their
original engines? They were all-out race cars and built
for pedal to the medal stuff !

Some day, we may learn how many ZL-1's actually retained
their original engines. That goes for COPO's, Yenko's, etc..

I can't be the only one that finds it odd that so many race cars
would retain the one component prone to failure - the engine.

Steve