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Originally Posted by Col. Brain
I really think if GM wanted to put the z/28 into class racing - they would have picked a class or two and built the car minus VIN and went at it.
And if you are serious about class racing - buy the camaro you want to race in that class and go from there. Or go the body in white route and build your own.
The COPO is built to several classes depending on what the owner wants to do with it! But because they want to race in the faster stock classes - it required a roll bar (NHRA rules) and some radical HP (that wont pass too many smog tests).
Same should be said with the Z/28. IT IS A STREET CAR!!! Therefore things like roll bars, and radical cam shafts, and no air bags etc can not be used. In todays regulated society it is race car or street car. The factory has to choose. They made the z/28 a street car. So it has to be a street car.
You as the buyer - you can do whatever the hell you want with it. Want to put it in a sanction racing class - that is on you. Buy the parts needed to convert it and go nuts.
I don't want to race wheel to wheel. I just like making hot laps and looking to get back into it. The z/28 hooked me on day one and have held off all summer waiting for THIS car to do exactly that.
I agree with some on here that 75k is steep but not out of reach either.
Think of it this way - this is Chevy's 2014 Z06 with a back seat.
And I repeat - the Cobra R adjusted for inflation would be over 70k today
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I can see your point but roll cages aren't required in some scca classes and this car isn't designed for the drag strip. It is clearly marketed toward road racing , as it should be. I just think it is over priced..thats all. I won't be buying one...for awhile that is. If it were priced a little different then I may have ordered one. 75k to run hot laps is a little unreasonable to me.