Re: ZL-1 Camaro
For anyone actually interested in fact from one of the few of us left that were there and up to our elbows in it back then, George Eaton Racing lost their funding at the end of the 1969 season and I bought the only two blocks they had left, a 430 Can Am and a ZLI, in addition to several cylinder heads that had all been ported by Traco Engineering, GM's designated engine builder for the Can Am Series. That was December of 1969. By then those of us with close sponsorship ties to GM knew about the Nurse ZL1 Camaro. It passed through Nurse to Eaton purely because Nurse was the nearest dealership to the Oshawa head office and was used for that sort of thing. Eaton's team manager told me the ZL1 was from the Nurse car.
I was one of the founders of NHRA Pro Stock (we signed the papers in a meeting room at a Holiday Inn in Dallas the night before the 1969 World Finals) and used the 430 Can Am block in my 68 Camaro the first year of P/S, 1970. See attached pic of the blocks & heads behind the Camaro, subsequently painted white.
As for the Stedelbauer ZL1, I have known the Stedelbauer family since the 1960s and last spoke with George about two years ago, when we discussed the car along with a number of other interesting rolling stock. George remembers taking the car off of Oshawa's hands when they couldn't find a dealer even vaguely interested. Unlike younger brother Bill, George had no interest in racing and no intention of racing it and did not have it long enough to race it.
Lance Hill
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