The 1969 ZL1 Camaro

This may look like a mormal every day 1969 Camaro to you, but it's acctually one of the meanest muscle cars ever built by Chavrolet or any other company, yes including the Hemi. In 1969 Fred Gibbs Chevrolet orded one of these Camaro's to go and race with, it was a special order car known as the ZL1 Camaro or COPO 9560 "Central Office Production Order" Dick Harrel was to drive the car for Fred Gibbs Chevrolet, and he would set a record for a street driven car during his run as a driver for Fred Gibbs. The ZL1 Camaro would prove to be an amazing race car, not to mention, it was still a street car also, in street dress Dick Harrel would achieve 1/4 mile times of 11.05 and in full race mode, with the headers uncorcked and slicks added he would achieve a 10.35 1/4 mile time on his first run. Then he would reach a real high for a street driven car, mind you this in factory street dress, with slicks added and headers uncorcked or in full race mode, he would achieve an all time high 1/4 mile time of 10.05, now how meny cars do you know of from the factory that will pull that feat off. This car had a 427 CID Chevy big block, which was rated at a meger 450 HP from the factory, of course this was a horrible underrating, with all the insurance problems for the car dealers during those years most of the car companies had to underrate the hp of their cars to get them insured while the cars were on their lots. To see the images that belong to this artle click here Muscle car resoration