ZL-1 SUPER CAR
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ZL-1 Supercar
May 19, 2012 – Charley from CA out bid Reggie Jackson @ Mecum Indy & now owns Dick Harrell #1. This has to be the ‘holy grail’ of all the Dick Harrell Cars. Jim
‘When I was a child, I played as a child, now that I am a man it just costs a lot more!’
GMMG Clock
“When Fast Just Isn’t Fast Enough”
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2002 “ZL 1 Supercar”
The ZL1 was inspired by the 1969 COPO ZL1 – 427cid Camaro
All 69 cars were B4C coupes with 6-speed manual transmissions except for 2 converted to automatic. Built in March 2002 Roll cages were installed in 28 cars. Three prototypes were: #1-Chevrolet Motor Division #2-Berger Chevrolet and #3-Helen Gibb. Car #1 was built to commemorate Fred Gibbs original ZL1 drag car. Car #69 was a special Phase 4 SR427 built to honor Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins and his ZL1 drag car. 1969 style houndstooth interior was made available and Penske Shocks with 3 different valving options were also available. The 2002 ZL1 was also made available with Z06 style wheels standard or optional Crager SS or Fiske wheels.
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PR-1 is now LeMans Blue Code 71- was Red
PR-2 Matt Berger
PR-3 built for Helen Gibb
#1 ZL-1
#3 ZL-1
How cool is the mirror made by Gib & Tammy’s son
Don’t know his name, but thanks.
How can I get one?
#10 ZL-1 – Andy
CUSTOM PAINTED CARS
How many are there?
PR-1 ’67Marina Blue
PR-3 Medium Purple Metallic – Helen Gibb
#1 Candy Apple Red? – Fred Gibb
#4 Frost (Fathom?) Green
#6 Gun Metal Grey – Baldwin Motion
#26 Hemi-Orange?
#58 Evening Orchid
#69 Dove White – Grumpy’s Toy
#?? Ralley Green
Joe’s Collection
ZL-1 #5 (LeMans Blue/white)
ZL-1 #49 (Red/black)
Dick Harrell #10 (1 of 2 white)
Bought it new – only 5X ‘454’ – 680 hp – different heads, throttle body & intake
#10 DH was built this way @ GMMG & not sent back for the upgrade
Could #10 DH be the largest horsepower GMMG built? (Someone will know)
ZL-1 #44 – Annie
Originally built for Reggie Jackson who backed out & Annie bought car
Phase III / 600hp – Nickname – ‘Muffin’
ZL -1 #44 – Annie
ZL-1’s @ GMMG waiting for the build
Is your car there?
(More photos to follow when I get time)
Jim,
These pictures were shot at the Supercar Reunion in 2005.
The 1969 ZL1 is Kenny Barnhart’s and the 2002 Hugger Orange ZL1 is #15
JD
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An interesting post from JD on LS-1 Tech – from 2007
2002 Phase I ZL1 Camaro sold at Barrett-Jackson
I will try to post up some information that I have until Matt has time to respond to this thread.
As mentioned before…………..the production of these cars had G.M./Chevrolet involvement.
Here is a document from Matt Murphy that I have with all the documents on my car:
“Dear Chevrolet Dealers and ZL 1 “Super Car” Customers,
This special web page is dedicated to a few select email addresses and will be updated periodically with information and photos sent out to you on a weekly basis. This project was started in late summer of 2000 in response to Fords, new at the time, Mustang Cobra R. Things don’t happen over night and we (Scott Settlemire, John Heinricy and Myself) had to be careful for the first 6 months not to alarm anyone at GM about this car.
I did almost get the program scrapped in February of 2001, when I took the Pilot car, then an LS6 black, no badged SS, with Z06 wheels and tires down for the Daytona 24hr. I was there to show John the car and then put it back in storage. Problem one, I took it to Dale Eamhardt down there and told him about the project and showed him the car. We talked about the project for a few minutes, and he gave me that Eamhardt grin and said I will take 50 of these. Don’t forget me he said, I want 50. Forget him, we will never. We at GMMG, Inc. will dedicate these 69 cars to Dale and his passion for the Camaro. He was a huge fan of Don Yenko and what he, Fred Gibb, Dale Berger and others did for the Camaro through their Chevrolet dealerships. We were on the brink of something big for Special Dealer Build Camaros with Dale in early 2001. Dale and Steve Crisp [DEI Public Relations] wanted to build Black B4C Camaros with the LS6 motors in them, all hardtops, no options. We settled at the time for Black SS’s with leather and some t-tops and most hardtops. Dale died about two weeks before we delivered the first batch of his 381 HP Intimidator SS’s, but thankfully to Teresa, Steve Crisp and a few others at DEI and DEC we were able to build 85 cars (83 #’rd and 2 prototypes) in Dale’s honor.
Problem two and almost fatal to the project, I was introduced to Rick Baldick (Corvette & Camaro Brand manager) and he said to me, “Scott has told me about all the Camaro projects you are working on, I think that is great and any help I can give you, just let me know.” Well, surely Scott told him about our LS6 Camaro, so I said to him, ‘Well, what did Scott tell you about our LS6 Camaro project.” His face went blank and dead silence for 3 seconds, before he replied, ‘What LS6 Camaro project.” Oh no, he had that look and I knew I was in trouble. I had to show him the car and he looked it over very quietly and carefully. He didn’t say much except it looks nice and then he had to go, he said. I got in the car myself, and left at once for Atlanta. I called John Heinricy on a cell phone and told him what happened. He said, “It is over, I told you that no one could know about this car and now this project is over .” He wanted the car in Detroit ASAP . I didn’t tell him that I had an appointment that Monday for the car to be repainted in a 1969 Garnet Red. I begged him to let me keep it in our shop, locked up for a few months, let things die down. He agreed and other than the paint shop, the pilot car was covered for 3 months.
I didn’t hear any more about Rick’s involvement except that he agreed to keep this car’s secret between the 4 of us. Rick’s involvement in this project will come back up at a later date. He has been very helpful since the day I broke the news to him. We went on to unveil the 2002 Pilot ZL-1 car to Scott Settlemire the night before the Atlanta F-body Gathering Car show in May 2001. We forgot to tell him that the car was now Garnet Red and had a complete package with the name ZL-1 on the fenders. I thought he was going to die when we uncovered it. But I was the one dying because he was taking my car away from me, that I had since the previous September.
Next week I will continue with the ZL 1 2002 story and each week I will update you with some more facts on the project. We were planning on starting the build process with motors in mid July. As luck would have it, we got the first motors from GM Parts last Thursday and Friday. About 6 weeks late, but, as some might say, better late than never. We met our first goal and that was to unveil the 2002 Car #1 ZL-1 “Super Car”‘ at the Fred Gibb Memorial Car Show in La Harpe, IL a few weekends ago. Car #1 is a special tribute to the original 1969 #1 ZL-1. It is painted Candy apple red with the gold lace and graphics like the original Fred Gibb/Dick Harrell ZL-1 Race car had.
Bill Porterfield, from MI owner the original 1969 ZL-1 car #1 and now owner of the original 2002 ZL-1 car #1. Our site will update you with pictures and articles on the current and past ZL-1 cars. There is an article from La Harpes newspaper describing the unveiling of the new car. As well as other articles from various magazines. We plan to have the #3 2002 ZL-1 car at the Berger Chevrolet Car show later this month [August 30th thru Sept. 1st] Both cars are close to being completed and both were specially prepped for their first showing.
We started swapping engines last Friday and won’t stop until they are all done sometime in October. The rest of the parts are coming in slowly like the motors. We are eager to deliver these cars to you the dealer and customer; but, we will not rush these cars due to the extent of the project. We are working still with vendors we ordered parts from some three months ago. This project is moving slower than we planned but will progress and we will get all 69 cars built and delivered, if all goes well by the end of October or first part of November. I would like to deliver the first cars by the end of September. We will keep you posted.
As for the first cars to get motors, they will be the ones not getting painted and the ones not getting the engine upgrade packages. We will try to ship cars in groups to dealers to save them cost on shipping. As some of you know, we had to change some of the options, due to emission reasons and our attorney trying to protect the dealers and GMMG, Inc. We will not be selling Phase 2, gears, headers or line locks through the dealers like originally planned. This is for your protection, as they do not comply with the emission certification tests we performed on the test car. The owners will have to pay us directly, in order to keep the dealers involvement out of it.
We have been contacting each ZL-1 owner and reviewing the options with them. So far half have either changed their stripe colors, take off credit, etc. One backed out and we did not get a call from the dealer and we were planning to send the car to the paint shop next week to get the custom Ferrari Yellow paint done on it. It is important that we talk directly to the owners to make sure that we get the right information. I do not want to ship cars next month and have the customer say, “I didn’t want it that way.” Right now we would have about 12 people pretty upset because the order form was different from what he wanted. I apologize for any order form confusion, especially with the early one with the extra options. We cannot take a chance of getting the dealers in trouble over emission related items. I also realize that it has been
almost two months since some of you sent in these forms and people change their minds. Please help us reach all customers and get the options finalized by the end of this week.
Please feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions or you can ask for Laurie or David and one of us will get back in touch with you, if we are not able to get your call. I believe these cars will go down as a truly collectible car and a sound investment. I promise all of you will be happy with the quality of the finished product. Thanks again for your patience and we look forward to talking to all of you soon.
Sincerely,
Matthew K. Murphy, Jr.
On behalf of all of us at GMMG, Inc.”
#23 ZL1 – C5R – 427 – 600 hp
ZL-1 Super Car
Car # Color Stripe Trans Engine Owner City State Phone E-Mail
PR-1was Red repainted LeMans Blue Code 71White
BillOnly 2000 ZL-1 CT
PR-2RedSilver
427/475Matt Berger
MI
09 Berger Show ShowroomPR-3Med Plum MetalicWhite Trigger OH bought 6/11 was Helen Gibb’s1CandyAppRedLetter
Fred Gibb Car-600hpTrigger
OH
2Garnet RedWhite III
IA 3Dayton YellowBlack
Where is this car in 2017?
Was Charley Lillard’s
#3 ZL1 painted to match 67 ZL14Frost GreenBlack Trigger OH was Matt’s5LeMans BlueWhiteIII/600
Trigger – OH
was Joe – IDID6/12
6Gun Metal GrayBlack
III?Baldwin Motion Car
Baldwin Motion rear end7Hugger OrangeBlack427/600
John
867MarinaBlue White 427/600 George CO 9Cortez SilverBlack
10Dusk Blue IIIAndy NC 11Hugger Orange
400Steve
MO
12LeManns BlueWhite Gib & Tammy MI ‘Wonderful 1’13HuggOran?/SebSilv?Black
14BlackRed IIITrigger
OH Bought around June ’1115Hugger OrangeBlack
Chris?
16Hemi-OrangeWhite Kenny
IL 17BlackSilver
JDCentral Iowa
alsoDEI #68
18Hugger OrangeBlack Trigger
OH 09 Berger Show19NBMWhite
Georgeneed photosTX
20Black/Ralley Green White Chad
21NBMWhite
427/600Rick @ Muscle Car City
FL
was George TX??
22Red
23Hugger OrangeBlack
427/600
Vince & Sally
WI
24Black Red 427/600 Rick NC
25Montery MaroonSilver
400
Gregory
?
26Sebring SilverBlack
ARK
27RedBlack Phase 2/475 Steve
Sold May 2017 was TJ – NV28Black Silver
Phase 2 – 475hpRay
PA
bought Nov 201429White Black 427/600 Mike & Sue Miller Original Owner
30Black
31Black
32Daytona YellowBlack 427/600 Alaska?
33NBMWhite
427/600Bob WI
34Cortez SilverRed 6spd 427/600Trigger OH 35Dodge Hemi Orange
shoe polish car
36Daytona YellowBlack
37Hugger OrangeBlack
3869 Lemans BlueBlkPaint III/600Mark – AMCM
FL
99 miles 4/12/1709 BJ – Kissimmee
39Sebring Silver
40Sebring Silver
41was Black/LeMans BlueWhite
427 – 600
Michael
IL
bought Nov 15 – was Todd’s
Jim Simon sold Dec 2017 – Registry Administrator
42Red 500+ Randy NC 43Yellow?/black?Black
44BlackCharcoal Trigger
OH Sold summer ’11 Originally built Reggie Jackson45BlackRed III/600
46Daytona YellowBlack IIDavid AL
47RedBlack
CA
48SOMBlack
49RedWhite
III/600Triggerwas Joe -IDOH6/12
50Black
51NBMWhite
LS6/2X6/525Ray
GA
Still original owner 1/11/1452Black
53White shoePolBlack
54Sebring Silver Black III/600hp C5R Trigger OH 55NBMWhite
III/600 C5R
??
KY
323 miles Feb 2018
56Pewter II/435?
57Daytona YellowBlack
5865 Evening OrchidBlack III/600Trigger
OH201209 HRPT Madison59RedBlack
III/600
FL
got photo12/19/0860RedWhite 427Nickey
61Black
400hpGreg
CA
62WhiteBlack
63White/CharcoalBlack6spd
400
Dealer near Indy
259 miles 3/3/16
6469 Garnet RedPewter III
AZ 6569 Fathom GreenWhite
II/600Trigger
OH
was Carl’s66Black/Orange Letter
427
67White Black
400?
MI
09 Power Tour68BlackWhite Andy NC 69Dover WhiteBlack Ph4SR427was blackGrumpy’s ToyTX
Last Built
for Mike Carnahan
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…….from Matt Murphy………
“Dear Chevrolet Dealers and ZL 1 “Super Car” Customers,
This special web page is dedicated to a few select email addresses and will be updated periodically with information and photos sent out to you on a weekly basis. This project was started in late summer of 2000 in response to Fords, new at the time, Mustang Cobra R. Things don’t happen over night and we (Scott Settlemire, John Heinricy and Myself) had to be careful for the first 6 months not to alarm anyone at GM about this car.
I did almost get the program scrapped in February of 2001, when I took the Pilot car, then an LS6 black, no badged SS, with Z06 wheels and tires down for the Daytona 24hr. I was there to show John the car and then put it back in storage. Problem one, I took it to Dale Eamhardt down there and told him about the project and showed him the car. We talked about the project for a few minutes, and he gave me that Eamhardt grin and said I will take 50 of these. Don’t forget me he said, I want 50. Forget him, we will never. We at GMMG, Inc. will dedicate these 69 cars to Dale and his passion for the Camaro. He was a huge fan of Don Yenko and what he, Fred Gibb, Dale Berger and others did for the Camaro through their Chevrolet dealerships. We were on the brink of something big for Special Dealer Build Camaros with Dale in early 2001. Dale and Steve Crisp [DEI Public Relations] wanted to build Black B4C Camaros with the LS6 motors in them, all hardtops, no options. We settled at the time for Black SS’s with leather and some t-tops and most hardtops. Dale died about two weeks before we delivered the first batch of his 381 HP Intimidator SS’s, but thankfully to Teresa, Steve Crisp and a few others at DEI and DEC we were able to build 85 cars (83 #’rd and 2 prototypes) in Dale’s honor.
Problem two and almost fatal to the project, I was introduced to Rick Baldick (Corvette & Camaro Brand manager) and he said to me, “Scott has told me about all the Camaro projects you are working on, I think that is great and any help I can give you, just let me know.” Well, surely Scott told him about our LS6 Camaro, so I said to him, ‘Well, what did Scott tell you about our LS6 Camaro project.” His face went blank and dead silence for 3 seconds, before he replied, ‘What LS6 Camaro project.” Oh no, he had that look and I knew I was in trouble. I had to show him the car and he looked it over very quietly and carefully. He didn’t say much except it looks nice and then he had to go, he said. I got in the car myself, and left at once for Atlanta. I called John Heinricy on a cell phone and told him what happened. He said, “It is over, I told you that no one could know about this car and now this project is over .” He wanted the car in Detroit ASAP . I didn’t tell him that I had an appointment that Monday for the car to be repainted in a 1969 Garnet Red. I begged him to let me keep it in our shop, locked up for a few months, let things die down. He agreed and other than the paint shop, the pilot car was covered for 3 months.
I didn’t hear any more about Rick’s involvement except that he agreed to keep this car’s secret between the 4 of us. Rick’s involvement in this project will come back up at a later date. He has been very helpful since the day I broke the news to him. We went on to unveil the 2002 Pilot ZL-1 car to Scott Settlemire the night before the Atlanta F-body Gathering Car show in May 2001. We forgot to tell him that the car was now Garnet Red and had a complete package with the name ZL-1 on the fenders. I thought he was going to die when we uncovered it. But I was the one dying because he was taking my car away from me, that I had since the previous September.
Next week I will continue with the ZL 1 2002 story and each week I will update you with some more facts on the project. We were planning on starting the build process with motors in mid July. As luck would have it, we got the first motors from GM Parts last Thursday and Friday. About 6 weeks late, but, as some might say, better late than never. We met our first goal and that was to unveil the 2002 Car #1 ZL-1 “Super Car”‘ at the Fred Gibb Memorial Car Show in La Harpe, IL a few weekends ago. Car #1 is a special tribute to the original 1969 #1 ZL-1. It is painted Candy apple red with the gold lace and graphics like the original Fred Gibb/Dick Harrell ZL-1 Race car had.
Bill Porterfield, from MI owner the original 1969 ZL-1 car #1 and now owner of the original 2002 ZL-1 car #1. Our site will update you with pictures and articles on the current and past ZL-1 cars. There is an article from La Harpes newspaper describing the unveiling of the new car. As well as other articles from various magazines. We plan to have the #3 2002 ZL-1 car at the Berger Chevrolet Car show later this month [August 30th thru Sept. 1st] Both cars are close to being completed and both were specially prepped for their first showing.
We started swapping engines last Friday and won’t stop until they are all done sometime in October. The rest of the parts are coming in slowly like the motors. We are eager to deliver these cars to you the dealer and customer; but, we will not rush these cars due to the extent of the project. We are working still with vendors we ordered parts from some three months ago. This project is moving slower than we planned but will progress and we will get all 69 cars built and delivered, if all goes well by the end of October or first part of November. I would like to deliver the first cars by the end of September. We will keep you posted.
As for the first cars to get motors, they will be the ones not getting painted and the ones not getting the engine upgrade packages. We will try to ship cars in groups to dealers to save them cost on shipping. As some of you know, we had to change some of the options, due to emission reasons and our attorney trying to protect the dealers and GMMG, Inc. We will not be selling Phase 2, gears, headers or line locks through the dealers like originally planned. This is for your protection, as they do not comply with the emission certification tests we performed on the test car. The owners will have to pay us directly, in order to keep the dealers involvement out of it.
We have been contacting each ZL-1 owner and reviewing the options with them. So far half have either changed their stripe colors, take off credit, etc. One backed out and we did not get a call from the dealer and we were planning to send the car to the paint shop next week to get the custom Ferrari Yellow paint done on it. It is important that we talk directly to the owners to make sure that we get the right information. I do not want to ship cars next month and have the customer say, “I didn’t want it that way.” Right now we would have about 12 people pretty upset because the order form was different from what he wanted. I apologize for any order form confusion, especially with the early one with the extra options. We cannot take a chance of getting the dealers in trouble over emission related items. I also realize that it has been
almost two months since some of you sent in these forms and people change their minds. Please help us reach all customers and get the options finalized by the end of this week.
Please feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions or you can ask for Laurie or David and one of us will get back in touch with you, if we are not able to get your call. I believe these cars will go down as a truly collectible car and a sound investment. I promise all of you will be happy with the quality of the finished product. Thanks again for your patience and we look forward to talking to all of you soon.
Sincerely,
Matthew K. Murphy, Jr.
On behalf of all of us at GMMG, Inc.”
Thanks for sharing J.D.
Charley also used to own 2002 ZL1 #3 to go along with 1969 ZL1 #3 (both are yellow).
He now owns 1969 Dick Harrel #1 (see above)
See #16 ZL-1 photos @ bottom of page
J.D.’s #17 ZL-1
Representing Berger Chevrolet at the S.Y.C. Supercar Reunion
1969 Hounds Tooth Interior
38 white – 6 orange – 6 yellow
PENSKE SHOCKS were available in 3 different valving
40 – Street with gold end caps
18 – Autocross with silver end caps
11 – Drag with black end caps
WHEELS
9 – Painted ZO6
28 – Crager SS
28 – Chrome Z06
4 – Fiske
…from Camaro White Book
#14 ZL-1
Phase III / 630hp
A special thanks to Doug for providing extra information & photos.
Andy’s Garage
Andy is the largest collector of GMMG Cars
I met Andy March 2010 wihile delivering a car for Matt Murphy & saw just a few cars in his fantastic collection
I am not sure of the number but I hear it is AT LEAST 27+ GMMG’s
My hope is to get his car list & dedicate a special page just to Andy & his ‘over-the-top’ collection
Here are just a few……….
#20 ZL1 – Ralley Green
ZL1 #21