1989 ZR-1 for sale at BJ

[1989ZR1#74]

Research Update:

Amelia never made it accross the Atlantic (Amelia is #004s new name. My daughters have the honor of naming all of the Jackson houshold cars. They felt that she is a girl, and she is a pilot, and I thought she was flown to France so they picked Amelia....).

All period references and Dave McLellan's book, reference that the 12 to 15 (depending on source) ZR-1s flown accross the pond for the world unvailing were built just prior to their air shipment to Europe. In the June 1989 Corvette Fever Paul Zazarine states "Fifteen other pilot-production ZR-1s all built in late January (1989) at Bowling Green were also air-shipped to Geneva..." I thought that would end up being the case. I also learned today that #010 was build in March of 1988. I would speculate that all of the France cars have S/N#s after #010 and probably after #16. The yellow Geneva car at the NCM is #016.

Now the dilema. I would guess that Amelia did not have a ZR-1 emblem on the rear bumper:



More then likely it had an LT-5 emblem as #014 did and all the long lead press cars at Riverside, CA press debut had. Talk about Unobtanium! Well the search begins.

I am also not 100% convinced the trade school painted this car. When I first saw Amelia unter the tent on a very overcast day with a layer of dust, dirt and hand prints it look like a cheap quick respray. I though there were three layers, Red, Black and Blue. It appears that there is a black base coat with multiple metalics candied over it. Until I learn more about their program, I find it hard to believe that a big 3 automotive trade school would paint this car with a teriffic quality very expensive multi metalic layered paint including all of the doorjams with all of the door panels, trim, tail lights etc removed. This is a very very high quality paint application. I would think that a trade program would spend more time on repainting damaged panels etc. So although it may be true, I am not going into it with preconcieved ideas.

More to follow.