more curiious than interested in buying them....then are like gold to collectors, and are pretty rare to see anymore.
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more curiious than interested in buying them....then are like gold to collectors, and are pretty rare to see anymore.
L88s aren't as rare as ZL1s but come on, they only made 20 of them in 67. The chances of the kidd having the heads off of one are pretty slim.
I'd love to see one in person. It's kind of like feeling up a pair of DDDs!
And to the OP, I'm not ripping up on this because you truly believe you have what you say you do. It's not like you are trying to front up to everyone on it. It's just the fact that when you were 7 someone told you a story or two and you take that at face value.
The fact that you came back and made the post that we all new was true is a one up for you my brother!!
Hell, I'd get wood if he a legit LS6 motor hanging around!
Maybe, just maybe it's a Z11 motor?
str8axle55
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Now a Z-11 would be a pretty rare bird, like they only made 57 of them to begin with. W/out #`s and pics, we may never know.
I'll get the #s. And pics.
Only 50 I believe, the other ones were not complete motors were sold as over the counter parts.
Likewise, I don't think there is supporting GM documentation to claim 57.
L88s aren't as rare as ZL1s but come on, they only made 20 of them in 67. The chances of the kidd having the heads off of one are pretty slim.
I'd love to see one in person. It's kind of like feeling up a pair of DDDs!
And to the OP, I'm not ripping up on this because you truly believe you have what you say you do. It's not like you are trying to front up to everyone on it. It's just the fact that when you were 7 someone told you a story or two and you take that at face value.
The fact that you came back and made the post that we all new was true is a one up for you my brother!!
The reason I own them is because I was born into a racing family. My father Michael Thomas was the one who created the funny car " the hawaiian " back in the 60's then sold it. He mostly was into race boats and had a ton of engines he braught back from his shop when he retired. So I inherited everything. I do not know everything that he owned. But I remember him talking about it all the time. He was born in 55, so he accumulated alot of stuff, considering he is a pack rat. Lol
No. He was nick named "the hawaiian" when he move there. He lived when he was stationed there in pearl harbor. He then later he started living with a Hawaiian family. Thats when he was given the name. And old guy in flip flops was the guy who fabricated the frame. Lol. My old man did the rest. He raced it for a few years and took it to nationals. He then later sold it to some guy on the island. Then that guy sold it to Ronald leong. Ronald leong got the name flyin hawaiian by crashing it. He then rebuilt it. It was nice to see the beast back in action.
Stomis
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L88s aren't as rare as ZL1s but come on, they only made 20 of them in 67. The chances of the kidd having the heads off of one are pretty slim.
I'd love to see one in person. It's kind of like feeling up a pair of DDDs!
And to the OP, I'm not ripping up on this because you truly believe you have what you say you do. It's not like you are trying to front up to everyone on it. It's just the fact that when you were 7 someone told you a story or two and you take that at face value.
The fact that you came back and made the post that we all new was true is a one up for you my brother!!
L88 heads arent as rare as you might think seeing as how any 435hp 427 corvette with aluminum head option had them. Its the cam and additional point of compression that makes the L88 the rare bird, not the heads.
We have a customer who has like 1 of 7 ZL2 corvettes. Factory chevelle LS6 in a C3 corvette.
Once again, I think someone told you a story and that's all you have to go on.
Leong was not driving the Hawiian when it crashed and was renamed the Flyin Hawaiian. Larry Reyes was driving the funny car.
It all began in the mid-‘60s when Leong decided to build his own dragster and race it. His maiden voyage down the quarter-mile in the front-engine 200-mph machine did not go as planned. The car left the track, crossed some railroad tracks and wound up in the weeds. Dazed but unhurt, Leong decided to take on the role of car builder and owner and tapped Don “The Snake” Prudhomme for the driving chores.
Prudhomme, driving Leong’s Keith Black-powered Hawaiian dragster, dominated the 1965 NHRA Winternationals (Pomona, Calif.) and U.S. Nationals (Indianapolis). Leong did it again in 1966, winning the Winternationals and U.S Nationals, this time with ace Mike Snively behind the wheel. Now, instead of having to call the drag strip operators for match-race bookings, track managers began calling him to secure the Hawaiian.
And how many of those were there?
I thought the 435hp L71s were all cast iron heads. So then it must be the L89s but I thought those were different then the L88 heads.
Stomis
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Correct, not all 435 cars had aluminum heads. Its a RPO code on the tank sheet just like power windows etc.
I believe the engine code is L89, yep it is. Heres the wiki excerpt.
"RPO L89 was an L71 fitted with aluminum heads While this option produced no power advantage, it did reduce engine (and hence, vehicle) weight by roughly 75 pounds (34 kg). This resulted in superior vehicle weight distribution for improved handling, although any difference in straight line performance was essentially negligible."
And theres no lack of L89 cars out there in the sense that theres not a number like 50 or even 150 of them. There are lots.
So they would have come with L78 block codes and a build sheet with L89. If that is the case then there were less then 5000 of them produced not taking into account replacement engines/heads.
Still not a very common part and less so nowadays but not as rare as the L88, Z11, ZL1 motors for sure.
Only rarer corvettes are the original GrandSports, and the ZL1's of 69 (unless you count the prototype and showcars)....you know your sh!t Stomis
I have film pics of my father racing it. Well it's more of a blurr. And I have pics of when he got back from nationals. He never owned the car for very long. Google it. We sold it to a hawaiian named Ron unama (oon-a-ma).
Didn't you say your dad was born in 55??? if so he built a car that was raced in 65???
Stomis
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Only rarer corvettes are the original GrandSports, and the ZL1's of 69 (unless you count the prototype and showcars)....you know your sh!t Stomis
So goes working in a corvette resto shop
Packin in the semi-useless info lol.
Yea I remember he always said of racin funny cars in 74-76 Maby there wer 2cars?
