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I consider the Estes car a one off special built car so it wouldn't fit in my comparison to the RS ZL1. I would still rather have the ZL1 though.

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Colin, what other Z/28 convertible are you referring to?
Mark Sheppard

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Colin, what other Z/28 convertible are you referring to?
Mark Sheppard

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http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...3/68z28rag.jpg
I had this in a Z28 file, not sure of the story. It can't be real? I do recall the gashole issue though.

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For me growing up (Beloit, WI) I can remember a black Nova that had Cragars all around it with the biggest tires I had ever seen in the back. My first car was a Nova. As I grew older I can remember an article in a magazine that interviewed Don Yenko. He said the 1969 427 Yenko Nova was “a beast, almost lethal, a car that they should not have produced; as they were skirting the edge of product liability when they built this car”.

So I vote for the 1969 Chevrolet 427 Yenko Nova. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/n...7YenkoNova.jpg

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My 2cents:
I think Kwizz was close.
In the entire history of Chevrolet, there was never a more "designed from scratch", full package, under one RPO number, race purpose vehicle than the '63 Impala Z-11. IF you look at everything that car had under ONE RPO #, strickly built for racing only, (with only 50 produced just to have NHRA sanction) there was never another Chevrolet produced with so many specific packaged features for one purpose. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/scholar.gif

Verne https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

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Are we including "one-offs" or dealer conversions in this query, or are we looking at an RPO'd vehicle completely designed by Chevrolet and offered to the public?

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I'd lean towards the 65 Z15 Chevelle. Chevrolet's first big motored mid sized car....

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Verne, when I was thinking about this thread before I posted it, what I really had in mind is one PARTICULAR car out there like ex: Red Alert, or Dickie Harrel #1 ZL1, the blue RS ZL1, so and so's original owner Yenko Camaro, etc.

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significant...? probally the first ever 427 conversion car.

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I agree with Verne on the '63 Z11. By significance, this car had to be a major influence on the popularity of later Chevrolet muscle. Car was more competitive and much more specialized than the ZL1 plus they were easier to sell. Many ZL1's lost their motors to boats and other race cars or were motors were pulled just to sell the cars. While they had a weight advantage even Jenkins said the iron motors made more power. I'm a Camaro person but feel that big Impala was more significant. I think the runnerup would be the early Z28's in TransAm.