30 years ago in Bowling Green

[gbrtng]

We watched the "last" ZR-1 being driven from the plant to the museum with
Jim Perkins at the wheel and Dave McLellan riding shotgun. What a weekend we had with many of the ZR-1 development folks. Perkins lived a storied life at Chevrolet and Lexus. A tribute was held in Charlotte by Rick Hendrick a few months after his death.

RIP ...

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/charlotte/name/jimmie-perkins-obituary?id=1981489&fhid=4758

Is there anyone here who were at the April 1995 event? I still have my coffee cup.

:saluting:

[WARP TEN]

I was there too, Glen, the weekend of April 28-30, 1995. For the little "parade" from the plant to the museum, Perkins wanted to have the lead cars be red white and blue, with the red one being the last ZR-1 produced, #448, that he was driving with Dave. So Larry Merow (founder of the original ZR-1 Registry) was second with this white ZR-1 and I was third with my '93 Quasar Blue. As we drove the 1/4 mile from the plant to the museum, I video taped it with one hand while driving, shifting and steering with the other. It was not the highest quality video, but it was a record of the event. I handed it over to Jim Voter when I sold him the '93 (which he still has) so maybe he will chime in. As I recall we had at least 300 ZR-1s there that weekend, probably the largest gathering we had before or since.--Bob

[gbrtng]

I was there too, Glen, the weekend of April 28-30, 1995. For the little "parade" from the plant to the museum, Perkins wanted to have the lead cars be red white and blue, with the red one being the last ZR-1 produced, #448, that he was driving with Dave. So Larry Merow (founder of the original ZR-1 Registry) was second with this white ZR-1 and I was third with my '93 Quasar Blue. As we drove the 1/4 mile from the plant to the museum, I video taped it with one hand while driving, shifting and steering with the other. It was not the highest quality video, but it was a record of the event. I handed it over to Jim Voter when I sold him the '93 (which he still has) so maybe he will chime in. As I recall we had at least 300 ZR-1s there that weekend, probably the largest gathering we had before or since.--Bob

There were 400 at Carlisle in 1996 ... Larry Merow was hyping 500 but missed a bit. I hope that video still exists.


Calling Jim Voter ... Ahoy !

[ZR-1 Guy]

I was at the gathering at Carlisle in 96 and they actually might have had as many as 400 ZR-1s! At the banquet dinner they had at the end of the Carlisle event I actually won the 1st place door prize which was a cutaway of a ZR-1 head that was originally used for development and later traveled around with the GM team as a promotional piece. See the attached pictures:

Glenn (ZR-1Guy) Reschke
1990 ZR-1 #3000 (original owner, sold 2019 with 130,000 miles)

[DRM500RUBYZR-1]

Simply hard to believe that it was nearly 30 years ago.

Over 30 years worth of Perma-Grin and GREAT friends!

No wonder I am still so happy.

:cheers:

Marty

[Dean Nelson]

I was also their.
still have all the paper work from that day
was a great time

Dean Nelson

[zyal8r]

My car may have been there in '96 (but I was not - I have only owned it since 2021). Here is the sticker in the rear window...

21234

Mike