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Re: 1989 ZR-1 Pilot #004 Thread
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Re: 1989 ZR-1 Pilot #004 Thread
Yes, I thought of that, but #074 was painted by California Street Rods and appeared in magazines. And is the sister to ZR-32. Thats a little different.
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That knick is very small, you did a great job on that (finding it, etc.) I know what Tyler is saying about the paint, but I'd go with the dark red too, although the school job would be lost forever. Regardless it's a great car to own! George
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I studied those pictures for a long time. Most of the 1989 ZR-1s covered in liturature where the June 1988 Riverside pilots (1 Red/Red, 1 Yellow/Red) or the Europe cars. There seems to be 2 post France USA magazine cars. 1 Red/Red that was featured in ZR-1 vs Porsche, ZR-1 VS Ferrari etc. There seems to be only 1 post France Red/Black press car, #74. SO when I saw Red/black in the 50th book I wrote the author. He told me about the LA TImes article and off I went.
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Re: 1989 ZR-1 Pilot #004 Thread
It sounds like Chuck Jr was a lucky guy at the time! Have you been in contact with him? You'd think GM would have told him not to drive it.
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Re: 1989 ZR-1 Pilot #004 Thread
Every car has a story and yes the 4th of the 89s is interesting so is the stint with the school and susquent paint job > Think the paint was for one of the Miami International car show events in the 90s.
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Re: 1989 ZR-1 Pilot #004 Thread
Years ago there was some nice stuff coming out of CSR down in L.A.
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"At the end of four weeks of relentless pounding, the ZR-1s, none worse for the wear, were shipped back to Detroit" If I had to guess these Europe cars That were built the last week of January, First Week of February 1989 fell within the #033 to #60 range. Based on my tracking I don't have any complete survivors in that range. They were the first ZR-1s to be fitted with the Phase IV engines. I assume they were all used for further durability testing. Here is what I have accounted for: Survivors: 003, 004, 016, 074, 078 Modified but mostly intact: 040 Conan V12, 045 NCM record car, 081 (Snake Skinner), 0?? Snake Skinner II Crushed Recovered: 014, 080 Engines/parts: 010,028,055, 075
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Re: 1989 ZR-1 Pilot #004 Thread
I like the paint and more then likely will repair and touch it up for now. I am looking for any pictures of the car at the Miami shows. That's another question I ask the School. It was also Bright Red at some point too.
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Re: 1989 ZR-1 Pilot #004 Thread
I used to have the following engines. Is it possible that any of these were 89 pilot numbers?
1K5800026 1K5800029 1K5800045 1K5800062
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