Model year · Second Generation
1970½ — a new car under a continuing name
An all-new body, four to five months late — the longest single body run in the nameplate's history begins.
The second generation launched February 26, 1970. Popular belief blames a strike; the documented cause was Fisher Body tooling trouble with the complex new rear quarter-panel dies — a 4–5 month delay that pushed the launch out of the normal fall window.
The Z28 got the LT-1 350, borrowed from the Corvette after SCCA raised its displacement ceiling. No convertible was offered this generation (the drop-top returned in 1987).
The Z28 got the LT-1 350, borrowed from the Corvette after SCCA raised its displacement ceiling. No convertible was offered this generation (the drop-top returned in 1987).
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