New 89 VIN Found

[vettebrett]

I posted this in the other Prototype Thread also, so the info would be together with the other info also.

Ok, I know I am a new guy here and everyone as a group seems to accept people that do not own ZR-1's just yet unlike a small group of Corvette Challenge owners. But I have some info that should help out everyone that is trying to keep track of the 89 ZR-1's.

I know that GM has in their possession 2 89 ZR-1's and they are number 1 and 3, I have also tracked down the VIN for this car this car that is pictured here.

The VIN is 1G1YZ21J5K5800013

This is the press car that was used by Morrison for Press event and advertising for GM, Goodyear and Mobil 1. This car is just like the record breaking car except for the fuel cell in the original car.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e191/brettrichmond/1990-LandSpeedRecord-LT5ZR1-03.jpg

[Tyler Townsley]

I posted this in the other Prototype Thread also, so the info would be together with the other info also.

Ok, I know I am a new guy here and everyone as a group seems to accept people that do not own ZR-1's just yet unlike a small group of Corvette Challenge owners. But I have some info that should help out everyone that is trying to keep track of the 89 ZR-1's.

I know that GM has in their possession 2 89 ZR-1's and they are number 1 and 3, I have also tracked down the VIN for this car this car that is pictured here.

The VIN is 1G1YZ21J5K5800013

This is the press car that was used by Morrison for Press event and advertising for GM, Goodyear and Mobil 1. This car is just like the record breaking car except for the fuel cell in the original car.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e191/brettrichmond/1990-LandSpeedRecord-LT5ZR1-03.jpg

You need to be carefull when looking at 89 vin information as the last 2 numbers will be repeated when looking at a L98 vs ZR-1s. I.E. the 100001 is a valid L98 car and may be alive but 80001 was a ZR-1 that was destroyed (as was s/n 2) according to my inforamtion. I was told by the heritage people that the earliest ZR-1 they have is 80003.
The earliest ZR-1 known to exist is my 88 s/n 43.
You need to read both threads started by Eric on his cars and the generic thread, much of what you were asking was posted earlier in these threads.

There is more info avaiable but we would have to shoot you once we told you.

Tyler

[TexasZR1]

Apologies to raise this thread from the dead, but looking for information on 580003, which mentioned in each post of this thread.



Is it still with GM Heritage foundation?


https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1990-chevrolet-corvette-zr-1-83/#comments-anchor


In this auction on BaT, the seller believes he has the engine from 5800003.


To me, the stamp looks like 5800008, but it's still an important piece, I would think.


Would love to hear others comments.

[phrogs]

Its a three, its totally a different shape than the other 8 in the stamp it would be the same if it was an 8. If you save the photo and zoom in you'll see its a 3. very early engine but the photo sucks so really its whatever I'm not a buyer of this car.

The front bumper isn't aligned correctly and the easy to remove black trim was not removed prior to paint and that to me is some Lazy *** work. So it very well could have been in a collision in the past but who knows.