Details

• Condition
  Pre-Owned Clear Title
• Engine
  5.7L 8 Cylinder
• Drivetrain
  Rear Wheel Drive
• Interior
  Tan
• VIN #
  1G1YZ23J0L5802475
• Mileage
  30060
• Transmission
  Manual
• Exterior Color
  Red
• Stock #
  SN3404
• Warranty
  

1990 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 — LT5 5.7L DOHC 32-Valve V8, ZF 6-Speed Manual, Red over Tan Why This Car Is Special The 1990 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 was not a trim package bolted onto a standard Corvette. It was a ground-up engineering effort developed in partnership with Lotus Engineering — then owned by General Motors — and built around an entirely new engine that Chevrolet could not produce in-house. The result was the LT5, a 5.7-liter dual-overhead-cam V8 with 32 valves and 375 horsepower, assembled by hand at Mercury Marine's facility in Stillwater, Oklahoma. No other engine in any American production car at the time came close to matching it on a technical level. To accommodate the wider LT5, Chevrolet widened the ZR-1's rear bodywork by approximately three inches compared to a standard C4 Corvette. This gave the ZR-1 a distinctive rear stance that is immediately recognizable to anyone who knows the car. The convex taillights on this car are the rectangular ZR-1 units, not the round taillights found on base C4s — another distinguishing detail that separates the two cars at a glance. Chevrolet built just 3,049 Corvette ZR-1s for the 1990 model year, the first full production year of the model. That makes 1990 the highest-volume year of the early ZR-1 run, though production remained low throughout the car's lifespan from 1990 through 1995. Total ZR-1 production across all six model years was fewer than 7,000 units. This car carries its original ZR-1 badges, ZR-1 alloy wheels, and the characteristic wide-body rear treatment that marks it as genuine. The position in the C4 generation makes this car particularly interesting from a collector standpoint. The C4 ran from 1984 through 1996, and the ZR-1 represented its performance ceiling. Road and Track recorded a 0-60 time of 4.5 seconds and a top speed in excess of 170 miles per hour for the 1990 ZR-1 — numbers that genuinely competed with Ferrari and Porsche at the time. Car and Driver called it the...