[Vintage Zcar & Other pictures]

Steve Parmely emailed me about this thread.

 

The #33 Sharp car is the original #006 car that was the Z Car imported to America and was damaged at the NY Auto Show by a model sitting on the roof. Sharp got the car after that and made it into his CP car. A year or so later that car went south to become Jim Fitzgerald's famous # 38 CP car.

 

Now that car has BSR colors and striping on it, but wears the #38. It is owned by Dr. Allan Robbins. He bought it from Fitz's estate.

 

The IMSA Camel pace car also has been "around". It was built here in Winston-Salem by Keith Hege (Fitiz's crew chief) and the body/paint work was done by Marty Tharpe who owns SPEVCO. SPEVCO did all of the promotional work for RJ Reynolds up unitl this year when Nextel came around to NASCAR.

 

After it was finished as a pace/promotional car for IMSA/RJR it was put out to pasture as an advanced school car at Road Atlanta. It always had the original 260 carbs throughout that period.

 

Jerry Atkins bought after the Whittingtons were jailed and new owners of Road Atlanta set it in a field behind a house trailer. Jerry restored the bottom of the car and built an engine for it with the proper Mikuni carbs and a nice cam. It had the original Camel paint while he had it.

 

Now the story comes back around to somewhat of a full circle..... Dr Robbins found out about the Camel car. He had bought the Bob/Scott Sharp GT 2 car as well as the IMSA wide body car/cars from BSR. He also had the 280 ZX from the Fitzgerald estate. The Dr. traded the ZX to Jerry for the Camel car.

 

The Camel car has now been repainted in BSR colors.

 

The ZX is now owned by Bob Postell who also owns Racer Parts Wholesale in Atlanta. It is painter in the red, white, and blue Activison colors as Fitz last had it. It is the first, or one of the first ZX cars imported into the US. This car is currently for sale at about $60k.

[When I take my oilcap off, it almost dies?]

If this is a Fuel Injected Z then the idle does go off when the cap is removed. No extra charge.........

 

Alan