only two made

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Originally Posted by Dwight Southerland

Also, Chev had planned a 3x2bbl small block engine for the '67 Camaro that was nixed before production. Several of the assembly manuals had pages referencing that engine that were marked "cancelled". I do not know any particulars about the internals, but it used the same chrome valve covers as the 350 option and a triangle air cleaner like the tri-power Corvettes. '67 was the first year of the 5-year 50,000 mile warranty and that may have had some bearing on the factory offering those performance engines.

NO BIG DEAL BUT................
For what its worth Chevrolet only made 20 (TWENTY) PRODUCTION L-88's. These were the assembly line assembled cars. 17 are known to exist and 3 have the original engines. The rest have replacement engines no matter what the re stamped block says. The rest were cars with engines used as "Service parts" (engines) so they could be used in SCCA type of events. The famous "K-MOTION CORVETTE" from Motion performance in NY was NOT a real L-88 driven by the late Astoris Chas shown in car magazines. But who cares !! It was a car that made for "Wet Dreams"I have a copy of EVERY Corvette Black book printed and they ALL say 20 prodction L-88 cars I know personally the 2 guys who own the ZL-1's The Yellow one and the blue one. The blue one has NO paperwork and is about 1 hour from me here in Florida. The yellow one is fully documented and is also in Florida just off Rt # 4 at his dealership along with a cpl. of REAL L-88's of the 1967 varitey. A good friend had a RED 69 L-88 Coupe that he tried to race with a factory Turbo 400. This was before good torque converters.He was a salesman at a local Chevrolet dealer in Md. The guy with the white ZL-1 I do not know but it is supposed to be fully documented. . I have been a Corvette guy since before I had a drivers liscense. I have owned 11 of them and raced a few (not L-88s) including a 435 HP '67 roadster which was one of 20 (yes twenty) built that I ordered new with the M-22 trans. Look them up....its all there in the Corvette black book.