GM Carlisle

**YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY** · #1 06-17-2002, 01:52 PM

Bummer on the rain, but at least it was a lot cooler than last year! Looking forward to the York show [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/laugh.gif[/img]

JoeC · #2 06-17-2002, 02:36 PM

I had great time seeing the "SuperCar Reunion guys" and all the cars. Was there when Bruce Larson was talking about Marks ZL1. Bruce said they took Marks ZL1 to the track to try to help sell it because the ZL1's were not flying out of the show rooms. Bruce was also talking about running the L88 motors in the early Funny cars. Said he liked iron blocks and heads but used some alu heads. The Fuel cars were braking iron blocks so he was afraid to use the alu block. He also said Chevy engineering told him the BB Chevy 3/8 rods are just as strong as the 7/16 rods and they only made the 7/16 rods because the racers thought they needed them.
Thanks again Brian H.!

MikeA · #3 06-17-2002, 04:21 PM

Any thoughts on the "new" Nomad that was at Carlisle? I liked it. Is GM going to produce the Nomad or is it a concept car?

JoeC · #4 06-17-2002, 05:27 PM

I like the Nomad. A retro 1st Gen 500hp ZL1 Camaro would be nice to. The Chevy guys gave a seminar and took some questions. They don't have the right attitude in my opinion. They were full of excuses of why they can't build stuff because of emission, safety, fuel mileage, and low projected profits. They should be more positive. I pointed out that the Viper and Ford GT has 500 hp and they pass all the same restrictions but they said those are "halo cars" just built to sell the other lines. Sounds like another excuse not to build something cool.

MadMike · #5 06-17-2002, 06:00 PM

Mark,
Sounds like I was standing right next to you saturday. I took a peek at your spiffy car but spent about 1 hour talking with Phil and snapping pictures of his car. Phil was a thrill to talk with.

For anyone interested:
I dumped all the pictures I snapped at Carlisle here:
http://www.nastyz28.com/carlisle2

Phils car is toward the end of the list of photos. I had trouble with the glare. I also took a bunch of photos of the 1970 L78 too, those start around #49 or so.

Almost all the pictures are 2nd gen camaro related. No bikinis. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

Fhakya · #6 06-19-2002, 08:42 PM

Great pics Mike...That L-78 car is awesome! Any story on that one? Seem to have kind of a fetish for those 77's huh?

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