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Originally Posted by Biergut
Excellent point about them being lost at that time... hadn't occurred to me, but as you mentioned... there was so little "talk" about the car on a wide scale... you had to almost seek out info and stories. Also, most "European" sports car fans just simple looked away when any of the press talked about the Z/28. The bias was already in the tank. It's what makes it so much fun to track it now... the great upside is that folks just assume you are much better driver than you are to get that big crappy American machine around so fast. 
The favorite questions I always get:
- What modifications have you done?
- How much horsepower does this have?
- What brakes did you upgrade to? |
Reflecting back it's easy to see why the brass signed off on the Z. They had a few thousand LS7's that were going in to nothing,and it was getting late in the generation to not have a Z like every other preceeding one. They let the lads in engineering have at it, which really hadn't happened since the Vince Piggens/COPO days. Timing had everything to do with it's epic failure,no way the flagship Vette gets second billing to a Camaro no matter how bad ass. Still very early in the game with these. IMO this Z will go down as one of if not the most significant performance car GM ever built for a number of reasons. Kudos to the AL O and his team for building an uncompromised analog track beast. i'm sure they did a lot of soul searching for the last few years but the worm is turning and in ten years they will be looked back in the same light as their predecessors form the late sixties.