rickb@tekig1.UUCP (Rick Bensene) (04/26/84)
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Re: The posting about the ZL-1 Camaro for sale in Super Chevy
magazine with the non-original cast iron 427 in it, for $20K.
$20,000 is not an unreasonable price to ask for the car. Being
as there were only 69 of them made, many of which ended up as
drag race cars, there simply are not too many around nowadays that
have the COPO tag on them identifying them as a ZL-1. That little
tag makes an otherwise plain-jane Camaro worth a LOT more money,
whether it has the original engine or not. In the same magazine,
Reggie Jackson (Chevrolet expert first, famous baseball player second),
has an ad saying that he wants a ZL-1 Camaro WITH or WITHOUT engine.
Reggie obviously knows that finding a ZL-1 Camaro with the original
engine, AND, that is for sale, is going to be a very difficult thing
to do. I know of a ZL-1 body (no engine, trans or interior) that sold
recently for $18,000. Most of the ZL-1 engines ended up broken
or transplanted into other vehicles, because the ZL-1's weren't
very reliable for drag racing, and, at the time, were rather
exotic and expensive pieces to risk blowing all over the dragstrip.
A while back, I was reading through a publication that
gives rough prices for collector type cars. Mind you, this was
a year or two ago, and prices have inflated dramatically. At that
time, a ZL-1 Camaro, in pristine (5 on a scale of 1 to 5) condition,
had a little asterisk in the column. At the bottom of the page, the
note said "Value Inestimable" For a ZL-1 in poor condition, (1),
the starting price was around $8,000. I would assume that would be
a rusted out hulk, without engine, and not much else. Another
vehicle in the same "Priceless" category was an orignal 427 AC Cobra.
Need I say more?
Rick Bensene
Portland, Oregon
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