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Before King of the Hill – The Secret ZR-1's that Made the Legend Possible
The Story of a special ZR-1 Prototype that a Lotus insider saw being crushed in a U.K junkyard & knew how special the car was. So he refused to let that ZR-1 prototype die & brought it back from the dead.
Part 2 – EX-5023: The ZR-1 Prototype that Refused to Die
When the Lotus employee found the EX-5023 ZR-1 prototype it was in sad shape. It actually had been slightly crushed but thank god it could still be saved. So it was rescued from the graveyard but still needed a lot of work.
Part 3 – The Rescued Early ZR-1 Prototype: The Car That "Did Not Exist"
If EX-5023 survived violence, the earliest ZR-1 development cars survived denial. Before the wide-body styling was locked in, there were prototypes that looked almost ordinary—ghosts from the start.
The Long-Lost Le Mans Corvette That Sparked the Legend (Briggs Cunningham #1, 1960)
If you want the purest "lost-and-found" Corvette racing drama, you don't need a barn—you need a car with international pedigree, a messy identity crisis, and a comeback that feels like a detective novel.
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