69 Camaro ZL1

[Tom Birky]

Thank you for the nice comments everyone. Hondo, it's a COPO 9560 option package, the heart of which was an all aluminum 427 big block. The blocks came from the Winters Foundry and were originally built for CanAm racing. Fred Gibb of Gibb Chevrolet in LaHarpe, Illinois thought they would make a good drag car. He convinced Vince Piggins to OK an order for 50 of the 500+ hp Camaros.

The "Gibbs 50" consisted of 5 automatic trans and 5 4 speed cars each in 5 colors. The Gibbs cars made up 50 of a total of 69 produced. They did not come with the front and rear spoiler packages or RS equipment like a few of the later ZL1's had.

Lots more to this story. If you're bored and like Camaros...here's a link.  http://www.camaros.org/copo.shtml
Also...cool vid...turn up your speakers!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uKyKYqfQGs

Charlie....I love the Daytona yellow Camaro as well and almost went that route, but yellow wasn't one of the Gibbs colors so I went with the orange.

Thanks!  tom

[Big Orange]

I'm finding all kinds of great goodies to look at on this site. Fantastic

[Charlie.D]

I wish I had my 69-Z -28 back. Had to sell it because the cost of insurance at 18 was high