Originally Posted by KimPossible

I didn't see a Yenko Camaro .... #6 is a '69 Camaro with a 427 but it doesn't specify Yenko. I believe in 1969 the stock motor for a Camaro was a 396 & you had to upgrade to the Corvette motor for it to be a 427. Don Yenko was the one doing that with the Camaro SS in 1969. Plus, the motor in the 1969 was a L78 396 not the ZL1 427 that the list says. The Yenko motor was the L72 427. The ZL1 was an aluminum motor based off the L72 427 and turned 500bhp (only rated to 430bhp but test higher). They only put 69 of these motor in the Camaro & 2 in the Corvette so they could qualify it for racing. The Corvette with the same motor didn't make the list & should have been way faster than any Camaro with the same motor because of the weight difference.

That's the problem with the lists ... they are so subjective. The motor they were using to qualify the 1969 Camaro for the list wasn't ever mass produced. It was a specialty motor designed for racing & put in a few production cars so they could qualify it, not a production car. Compare that to the 1966 Corvette 427 with the L72 motor - they made over 5,200 of those cars & it is #2 on the list. What qualifies for a list like this & what is too specialized? How many had to be made to qualify?

And now you all know that I am a monster car geek.....