Hot Rod Magazine June issue - ZR-1 Net Registry Forums

Mystic ZR-1 · 04-11-2014

HRM has a one page article on the ZR-1 and LT5 in
the June 2014 issue!
Nice article but not a lot of detail. Not sure I like them
calling the LT5 "obsolete"...
On the contents page, the article is billed as
"90-95 ZR-1: DOHC for Pennies on the Dollar"

BigJohn · 04-11-2014

There is nothing wrong with being obsolete!!!
After 10 years out of production the hot rod stadus starts to go away.
You bought your car for about 1/4 what the original owner paid.
In the 70's we would buy GTO's and Roadrunner's for about $300.00 to use as winter beater. Just try and buy one in good condition for that now!!!

Schrade · 04-11-2014

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigJohn

There is nothing wrong with being obsolete!!!
After 10 years out of production the hot rod stadus starts to go away.
You bought your car for about 1/4 what the original owner paid.
In the 70's we would buy GTO's and Roadrunner's for about $300.00 to use as winter beater. Just try and buy one in good condition for that now!!!

True.

My first car ( in '76) was a '68 Charger R/T. 71k miles, got it for $600 (same HP 'rating' as my '90 Z, BTW).

That car would fetch 500 times that nowadays...

(learned a few lessons about Octane rating, with that car - school bus gasoline doesn't work well, if you drop hammer (with 12.5:1 squeeze in the holes. Other lesson? School bus fuel tastes lousy

).

Paul Workman · 04-11-2014

Yeah.... This is a photo of the FBI gang after winning two of the last 3 all Corvette drag race shootouts with our "obsolete" DOHC LT5s"

Its kinda fun to see the LSx crowd that gathers around the ZR-1s at that event and the 1/2 mile WANNAGOFAST shootout to gawk and ask questions!

Bob Eyres · 04-16-2014

This was a pretty good write up. Especially considering it was only one page, with five paragraphs, three pictures, (note that they are 89's), and a sidebar. A lot of info there for the "Hot Rod" reader, who doesn't have the encyclopedic knowledge that some of us here have about the car.

The only important points missing, IMHO, are a mention of all the records set by the ZR-1, and a reminder of the fact that they are dirt cheap today

04-11-2014	#1
Mystic ZR-1 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Mystic CT Posts: 2,625	Hot Rod Magazine June issue HRM has a one page article on the ZR-1 and LT5 in the June 2014 issue! Nice article but not a lot of detail. Not sure I like them calling the LT5 "obsolete"... On the contents page, the article is billed as "90-95 ZR-1: DOHC for Pennies on the Dollar"

04-11-2014	#2
BigJohn Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Ledyard,CT Posts: 8,301	Re: Hot Rod Magazine June issue There is nothing wrong with being obsolete!!! After 10 years out of production the hot rod stadus starts to go away. You bought your car for about 1/4 what the original owner paid. In the 70's we would buy GTO's and Roadrunner's for about $300.00 to use as winter beater. Just try and buy one in good condition for that now!!!

04-11-2014	#4
Paul Workman Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Squires (near Ava MO in the Mark Twain N'tl Forest) - Missouri Posts: 6,466	Re: Hot Rod Magazine June issue Yeah.... This is a photo of the FBI gang after winning two of the last 3 all Corvette drag race shootouts with our "obsolete" DOHC LT5s" Its kinda fun to see the LSx crowd that gathers around the ZR-1s at that event and the 1/2 mile WANNAGOFAST shootout to gawk and ask questions!

04-16-2014	#5
Bob Eyres Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Jupiter, Fl. Posts: 813	Re: Hot Rod Magazine June issue This was a pretty good write up. Especially considering it was only one page, with five paragraphs, three pictures, (note that they are 89's), and a sidebar. A lot of info there for the "Hot Rod" reader, who doesn't have the encyclopedic knowledge that some of us here have about the car. The only important points missing, IMHO, are a mention of all the records set by the ZR-1, and a reminder of the fact that they are dirt cheap today