Where there two ZR-12s????
 

Ok, I have documented earlier that the Conan ZR-12 at the Museum is 1989 Vin #040, P9Y074. The ZR-12 is Bright Red with a GRAY interior:

http://www.syreal.com/Conan-V12.jpg

Well in my neverending quest for information on the 1989s I came accross the July 1992 Issue of Vette magazine:

http://www.syreal.com/vette792coversm.jpg

The magazine identifies the ZR-12 as EX5664, WHile reading the article I was struck by a couple oddities. The car has side pipes and a SADDLE interior:

http://www.syreal.com/saddle1.jpg

http://www.syreal.com/saddle2.jpg

But the one at the NCM has a Gray interior:

http://www.syreal.com/gray1.jpg

The magazine ZR-12 has sidepipes:

http://www.syreal.com/sidepipe1.jpg

So were there two ZR-12s or did Chevrolet rebuild this, take the side pipes off, and swap out the interior???

Re: Where there two ZR-12s????
 

There are some pretty sophisticated Headers on the magazine car:

http://www.syreal.com/sidepipe3.jpg

The NCM car has under body exhaust:

http://www.syreal.com/sidepipe2.JPG

Re: Where there two ZR-12s????
 

Woah........



Wonder where the other one is!



:cool:


David

Re: Where there two ZR-12s????
 

Not sure if there are two yet, could be just the gray looking "saddle" in the mag, but there are some big differences they had to make after the 1992 pictures.

Re: Where there two ZR-12s????
 

Is that overflow tank a prototype unit or production?

Re: Where there two ZR-12s????
 

The tank is early '89 Z, late '89 Z were black.

George

Re: Where there two ZR-12s????
 

and the 88 prototypes were white and smooth...

Re: Where there two ZR-12s????
 

Very interesting! Who knows, maybe there are a lot of secret cars like this one hidden and stashed away that no one knows about.

Re: Where there two ZR-12s????
 

I knew George would know the answer to this question, he's been looking for this part for donkeys years. (Did you ever find it?)

Re: Where there two ZR-12s????
 

Thanks to George's picture of #055 it appears that the ZR-1s up to #055 had White ones. All ZR-1s I have seen after #074 had black ones.