With the body ready, the engine and transmission installation was the next step.

Photo - Brett Henderson
Shown here is the original console tray insert with “KOH” hand-written on it.

Photo - Brett Henderson
The ZR1 showed it had tremendous acceleration and handling characteristics, but carried a very high price; MSRP for the ZR1 in 1990 was $58,995, nearly twice the price of a base-model Corvette. By 1995, the final year for the ZR1, the price had increased to $66,278. This pricing placed the ZR1 in the same price class as the Porsche 964. Fewer than 7,000 ZR1s were produced during the span of its production run. Today, ZR1 Corvettes sell for as little as $20,000 in driver-quality condition while extremely low-mileage examples are in the $40,000 to $50,000 range. Prototype ZR1s that have escaped the crusher may be historically priceless, but one of the two survivors sold for $75,000 in December 2020.