With a supercharged 6.2-liter LT4 V8 engine producing 650 horsepower and a standard six-speed manual transmission, the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE is a car best suited to drivers with some experience driving powerful, rear-wheel-drive vehicles.
It appears that the owner of this vehicle, or whoever was taking it for a test drive, didn’t have quite as much time behind the wheel of high-performance vehicles as they would have liked, as it was crashed and totalled with just 48 miles on the odometer.
The exterior of the car looks completely destroyed, with damage showing on three of its four corners. The only seemingly salvageable body pieces are the 1LE-spec wing and the side mirrors. The car is for sale at a Copart lot in the Portland area, so one might be interested in bidding on the car to yank the LT4 V8 and perhaps the six-speed manual transmission out of it—assuming those items are undamaged. It would also be quite the project to pull the engine, its accessories and transmission from the car if they were found to be in working order.
The problem with buying this Camaro ZL1 1LE for the LT4 engine alone is that Copart wants a minimum of $27,500 for the car—way more than if you were to simply buy a brand-new LT4 crate engine from General Motors. With little else on the car being of use, save for some interior pieces and the aforementioned wing and side mirrors, you probably couldn’t part the car out to make up the difference and it doesn’t seem as though it would be worth your trouble. Admittedly, we don’t have much experience parting out almost-new crashed Camaro ZL1s, so perhaps one of our readers can provide some real-world insight.
Check out the Copart listing at this link for additional photos of this sad-looking Camaro ZL1 1LE.
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If I were to guess I would say cold tires, and a heavy right foot. Those tires are like ice skates when they are cold and looking at the damage to the wheels he slid into a curb as at least a part of the wreck. Its a shame.
That and/or they turned off all traction control…
Saw a new Camaro get wrecked and wound up in top of a guard rail while leaving a car Show. Right in front of a full parking lot of people. Embarrassing on many levels.
If it was a red Zl1 My buddy Jeff was in that car when it happened. it was raining also.
We should leave these kind of hijinks to the Hellcat guys.
Or like I had on my SS a guy in a Mitsubishi turning left in front of me while he was texting giving me no where to go.
Never assume it is the drivers fault.
I had 78 miles.
He paid dearly!
Ok if you’re behind the wheel, you could have done something different to avoid a crash. That’s a fact. What was you part in this, wrong place wrong time ? You put yourself there no one else.
he traded in a Mustang on it
It’s a reminder of the Kevin Hart accident as people need to know and respect the cars they’re driving as this accident could have been prevented if it was a more experienced driver as the 2019 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 has 650 hp and can accelerate to 60 mph in under 4.0 seconds; this type of accident is a reason for some type of autonomous or big brother to catch foolish mistakes.
Omegatalon, It has traction control. We don’t know why the car was crashed. It may have been another cars fault. It may have been drive off the side of the road into a ditch. Or spun out in a heavy rain. Wide tires hydroplane easily.
I’ve seen worse. The motorcycle dealership I worked at sold a 20 year old a 2018 Kawasaki zx-6r a bike that can do 0-60 in about 3.7 secs. Crashed it 5 miles from the store.
Can’t fix stupid!! Everyone thinks their a race car driver!
Just as they would recommend a potential owner of a new ZR-1 to go through a course to truly understand what they are getting involved with, prehaps this guy should have educated himself a bit about the handling of this Camaro prior to the consideration of even purchasing the car.
Copart is a very dishonest auction site, you will pay 10% on top of the winning bid, and you will need to work through a broker which will cost you another 200 dollars.
I bought a 2011 camaro 2ss 6.2 L with “mechanical issues”.
Mechanical issues was that the car had a 6 cylinder CTS motor dropped onto the crossmembers.
Copart has ZERO responsibility, and insulates itself through the brokers.
Check their BBB rating.
So you bought a wreck with known “mechanical issues”….how much time did you spend checking out the “issues”? Did you visit the Copart yard and examine the car, ask someone in the area to check it out for you, or did you just take a chance and bid on line, site unseen??? How much time did you spend before you bid to find out how the Copart auction process works? And if you are an “as is” buyer didn’t you know that before hand?
Sounds like sour grapes and have only yourself to blame….man up Rick, you didn’t do your homework and want to blame Copart (which I have absolutely no ties to or even visited their parts places). Do you always have a sense of entitlement when things don’t go your way when its your own fault? Wow…
Your comments make sense if you know that you’re dealing with sleaze balls that should be investigated by a state attorney general.
You cannot advertise a car as a 6.2 liter and have a Caddy 6 cyl motor/trans dropped in as a shill.
It’s called fraud.
I’m in the northeast, the car was in texas. I just took Copart at their advertised word (BIG MISTAKE)
Billy, go look at all the court cases against Copart, and then look at the better business bureau rating of F.
Plenty of people screwed much worse than me.
P.S. Copart minions (not you I’m sure) work to argue and delete negative comments.
Dang billy bob, easy on the guy! He is just sharing his experience. No need to slam him. Be nice. Live in peace n drive fast!
high-proformace car low proformace driver adds up this.
Hey, I don’t think changing the engine from a original V8 over to a 6 cyl qualifies as “mechanical issues”. Without declaration, I think that could be fraud.
Sold as is, if you don’t look it over , you get what you get, that’s right Billy bob !
$27,500 lol.
Maybe he could not see out of that horrible windshield like most of Camaro drivers. The problem is the faster you go, the more you want to see and this is probably the worst and smallest windshield on a production car. Disaster is just waiting to happen. When there is a downpour or more, it gets even worse than it is.
Guest you’ve never driven a ZL1! Seat adjustment for pedals and view. Windshield not the issue. Driver error ? Possible, if you’re not there you don’t know.
Has nothing to do with the windshield.
It didnt say the sex or age of the driver, so i would bet everything on a young male with too much money.
Its just a shame really, such a beautiful car!
does anyone know how many zl1 1Le’s were made?
I drive a 2018 ZL1 everyday on a 130 mile round trip, have over 34k miles since a year ago August. The tires are not normal traction tires, you can easily lose control on dry pavement if you don’t know what you are doing, and on wet pavement you drive under the speed limit in a Florida driving rain. On my second set of tires, they are summer only tires. Nothing to do with the windshield. Torque is what you need to know how to handle in a car like this.