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04-11-2014
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Mystic CT
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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" |
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Ledyard,CT
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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!!! |
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: NC
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Re: Hot Rod Magazine June issue
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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  ).
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Squires (near Ava MO in the Mark Twain N'tl Forest) - Missouri
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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!
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Jupiter, Fl.
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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 |
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