Click here to go back block, the #1111240 distributor with no vacuum advance, the dark reddish-brown plug steel core wires with no braiding or ground straps, the filter element mounted with a specially molded duct in the hood, an open aluminum plenum intake, the #3904387 aluminum heads and the M22 "Rockcrusher" four-speed. Incredibly, this L88 had one power option that no other L88 was granted, and that was electric power windows.
The Black Knight became a road warrior after
its original commission expired. DeLorenzo sold the car and it was raced until 1982. With small block power in D-Sports, it won the GT championship.
Looking at the car now, restored to concours correctness and as glorious as the day it left the St. Louis assembly plant, it is hard to imagine how worn out it was in 1982. "Had you
seen it in ‘83 in the shop, you would have laughed," Steve
Hendrickson (the current owner) is
quick to relate. "The body was orange
and white and many other
