#33 - The Australian ZL-1

[Jeff Murphy]

Rear - note fuel cell box; there is a trunk release hidden behind the license plate

[Seattle Sam]

Jeff, great pics! Good luck finding that second gen in England!!

[Belair62]

Just a little bit of carburetion !!! Too cool...

[camarojoe]

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Both cars were Gibb ordered cars. The #52 car was a LeMans blue three speed auto car, which was sold without the motor and destroyed

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Cool story Jeff...When and why was this #52 car sold without the motor and destroyed?

[Jeff Murphy]

Classic SuperCar death story. Jane raced the car a little. Decided that he wanted to keep the engine. Sold it with a small block. New, youthful owner wrapped it around a tree. Car sat for a while, several deals to buy it were never consummated, so it went to the junk heap. They think it was crushed.

[Chevy454]

Excellent work Jeff! The story is amazing...

[Eddie M.]

Very cool Thanks Jeff

[Born30YrsLate]

Great info Jeff...your work is appreciated!

[68TopStock]

Jeff,

You do get around! That is a neat story, I think a trip back to LaHarpe would be fine for this car.

[GMH454]

Jeff one of the cars (if not both) were sucessfully drag raced and there are some good photos in Rodsport showing them. Think Moffatt also drag raced the Boss at the same meet once.

Only talked to Bob once and he was very informative about the car. (give a multi millionaire a gift of something he wants, and it gets through the barriers) and he indicated that Chevrolet had something to do with buying the cars. Moffatt had one of the "factory" Boss cars at this time and Bob needed something to level the playing field.

Some terrific photos in the Motor Racing annuals of that era.

Think it was the only ZL-1 to circuit race (Yenkos Daytona ZL-1 was a 302 car with a heart transplant (so I have read ).

Nice photos.