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05-08-2012, 06:48 PM
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Re: So Rare You Have to Wonder
My belief that the Z-11 was 63 Impala Sport Coupe only. John Hagen ran a red one and I remember it running 11.80. Pretty fierce in 63.
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05-08-2012, 07:08 PM
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Re: So Rare You Have to Wonder
Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Z-11 heads look like big block heads?
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05-08-2012, 07:35 PM
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Re: So Rare You Have to Wonder
Dave Colbert has posted on here with a lot of info about the Z-11's and cars and uses the name Bad Banana. He posted pictures of a '63 I believe he had from new and raced.
Dave's cars were alwasy fast..........
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05-08-2012, 07:54 PM
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Re: So Rare You Have to Wonder
Jeez,an AMC guy has to give the straight scoop on this.Bill,go to your room.
51 more to go.
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05-08-2012, 08:51 PM
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Re: So Rare You Have to Wonder
It seems that the late year releases of factory performance parts included aluminum front fenders ,hoods, etc. for the '62 cars. Also available were the two piece intakes and the high port Z-11 style heads. Those didn't get called Z-11's until the '63 car came out. If you put those heads and the aluminum on a '62 car, you got moved from Super Stock into A/MP. The original idea was to make the Z style heads, intake, and air cleaner an option on the '63 Chevy 409's, but that never got done. Too bad. If more of that stuff was out there, the 409 legacy would have been that much greater. The term Z-11 was from the RPO designation of the factory '63 impala race car with the 427 inch engine with the high port heads, the two piece intake, and the cowl induction air cleaner.Included were aluminum bumpers, fenders, brackets, inner fenders, and the hood.Only around 57 of those were ever built, and I've been told that only 7 still exist. Rare? Yes. Find one and you've got something.
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