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Originally Posted by camarogirl57
As posted before, the Z does stand for Zora Arkus Duntov, a Chevy engineer and racer who saved the original Corvette from getting the ax by installing the 265 small block in '55 and developing the small block AND the Corvette through the '60s. Have you ever heard of Duntov cams? That's him too. Father of the Corvette. So Chevy honored him in 1967. And the rest, as they say, is history!
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No, it doesn't.
Let me put it this way:
Z28 is an RPO for an option package.
Z22 is Rally sport. Z23 is custom interior. Duntov had jack **** to do with those.
The 302 may have started life as an exercise by Zora Arkus-Duntov and Dick Keinath back in the late fifties but they did not honor him this way.
Z/28 and Zora are partners by coincidence. Anything else is a myth, just like factory installed crossrams.