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Vince Piggins worked at Hudson and was the man behind the Hornet's NASCAR championships in the early 1950s.
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In 1964, Vince Piggins was manager of product performance for Chevrolet Engineering. That year, he proposed an idea to build a mid-size performance street car, which would be powered by the new 396-cu.in. V-8. Known as the Z16 Chevelle, the project involved 201 1965 Malibu Sport coupes.
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The name came about when GM held a press day in November 1966 at Riverside International Raceway in California. "There wasn't any suggestion of what we were going to call this car," Piggins said at the time. "When it came down to having to decide, somebody just said, 'Hey, it's RPO (Regular Production Order) Z-28; let's call it Z/28! So the name stuck."
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Herb Fishel started working for Vince Piggins in 1969. His first assignment was to develop the cross-ram intake manifold for the Z/28.
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