JL8 crossram Camaro at Barrett Jackson

[JL8Jeff]

I see that lot # 658 69 Z28 JL8 crossram car (http://www.barrett-jackson.com/events/florida/vehicles/cardetail_list.asp?id=184125) sold for $215K this weekend at BJ in Palm Beach. A quick look at the pictures and the car doesn't look to have a GM crossram(no name reproduction with no casting #'s) and it has a reproduction master cylinder that doesn't have the bleeders. There's no mention of documents either. Makes me wonder if it's a completely built car(is it a real JL8?) or is there any originality to it other than the motor. All I can say is WoooHooo!:-P That makes my original and documented car with GM parts worth even more!

[Tsar]

pics of your car?

[1972LT1]

The description Barrett Jackson provides sats that this car is a "matching numbers D2 302. Shouldn't it be a DZ 302. That horsepower rating looks a little low too.....

[JL8Jeff]

I'm sure it's a typo and it's supposed to be a DZ 302. The 302 was rated at 290 hp so that is correct. They really put out around 325-350 hp though. My car is still sitting in primer waiting to be painted so I don't have any interesting pictures of my car.

[WildBillyT]

Wow. The prices are really getting up there. I saw a Z/28 clone go for 33k.

As far as the accuracy of this one, I was wondering about the Xram myself, it doesn't look quite right. Actually, the car itself looks over-restored to me, especially the too-red engine enamel.

Well, at least it doesn't have the Ford fan sticker. :D

[NJSPEEDER]

with the way that some smacker chucked $225,000 at a gullwing replica, i am begining to believe that documentation really doesn't mean as much anymore.
there was a time when people woudl ask you to prove that the seat belts had the correct weave pattern for the period and that the floor mats either not be there or be the correct dealer optioned NOS pieces. with all the questionable and outright fake cars that people are paying retarded amounts of money for i can't understand what all these millionares are thinking.
they have the money and time to find the real thing, so instead they buy fakes and inflate the price of the real cars that they really wanted in the first place.
at this pace i woudl not be shocked in the least to see a JL8 or ZL1 car go for well over $1mill by the end of the decade.

[JL8Jeff]

Tim, you can't get a ZL1 for under a million already. I can't quite figure out what some of these people are thinking by buying something without verifying things are correct or not. Last night I watched a 69 Camaro pro-touring car with the ramjet ZL1 serial # 001 sell for $100K. It was a nice car but I don't see how that engine added that much value to the car.

[WayFast84]

Whats crossram?!

[BigAls87Z28]

Crossram intake is a style of intake that positioned two 4bbl carbs across from eachother in a diagnal pattern. Im sure that Jeff can post pictures of the crossram design.

[Ian]

http://www.camaro-untoldsecrets.com/images/gif/crossr5.gif