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12-17-2008

I believe Boyd has passed on.

There was an article on this particlar car in the Jan/Feb 1996 ZR-1 Registry Newsletter.

It was owned by a quadraplegic WWII fighter pilot(Boyd Jenkins) who had it converted to an automatic and hand controls!!!! Some excerpts from the article:

"... The original cams are retained, and from the deck down, the LT5 remains untouched. Shown as their feature car for the 92 SEMA show in Las Vegas, a custom 160hp nitrous system was designed and installed by NOS at their Cyprus CA headquarters. Race prepping by Custom Corvettes of Perris, CA included a six point leather covered roll cage and a four point quick release harness..... The first pass at Carlsbad with the modified 700R4 yielded an 11.05@124.30. The second pass was good for an 11.01@126.88. Over the weeks... produced progressively quicker times, until finally, a best of 10.43@133 was clocked at Carlsbad, on the bottle, slicks aired to 11lbs and open exhaust."

12-17-2008	#7
Jeffvette Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Who has gas......700hp LT5 I believe Boyd has passed on. There was an article on this particlar car in the Jan/Feb 1996 ZR-1 Registry Newsletter. It was owned by a quadraplegic WWII fighter pilot(Boyd Jenkins) who had it converted to an automatic and hand controls!!!! Some excerpts from the article: "... The original cams are retained, and from the deck down, the LT5 remains untouched. Shown as their feature car for the 92 SEMA show in Las Vegas, a custom 160hp nitrous system was designed and installed by NOS at their Cyprus CA headquarters. Race prepping by Custom Corvettes of Perris, CA included a six point leather covered roll cage and a four point quick release harness..... The first pass at Carlsbad with the modified 700R4 yielded an 11.05@124.30. The second pass was good for an 11.01@126.88. Over the weeks... produced progressively quicker times, until finally, a best of 10.43@133 was clocked at Carlsbad, on the bottle, slicks aired to 11lbs and open exhaust."