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A second-owner 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 with barely 8,900 miles on the clock just surfaced on Hagerty Marketplace, and it isn't a stock example. The Nightfall Gray coupe carries a professionally engineered 865-horsepower build from RPM Motorsports, a clean Oregon title, and a clean CARFAX history, making it one of the more thoroughly documented modified ZL1s to hit the auction block this year.
Chevrolet's sixth-generation ZL1 arrived for 2017 as the most track-focused Camaro the factory had built to that point. Under the hood sat a supercharged 6.2-liter LT4 V8 borrowed from the Corvette Z06 and rated at 650 horsepower from the factory, paired with Magnetic Ride Control suspension, six-piston Brembo front brakes, and an available 10-speed automatic transmission. For a deeper look at how the nameplate has evolved, Motorious has a full breakdown of the Chevrolet Camaro's history.
This particular coupe left Love Chevrolet in Columbia, South Carolina, and has been with its current owner since 2018. Beyond the factory carbon fiber hood insert, 20-inch forged wheels, and Recaro performance seats, the car wears RPM Motorsports' 865 Package: CNC-ported LT4 cylinder heads, a custom GT35 supercharger camshaft, Kooks long-tube headers, a Lingenfelter overdrive pulley, an LS7 lifter conversion, and a full street and dyno tune from the North Carolina shop. Fresh Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires were fitted in 2021, and the seller says the ZL1 has been "garage kept, never driven in the rain."
Modified muscle cars like this one occupy an odd corner of the collector market, since published price guides are generally built around unmodified, factory-spec examples. Anyone trying to gauge where a heavily built ZL1 should land can start with Hagerty's valuation tools, which track condition-based values for the factory LT4-powered Camaro and offer a useful baseline before layering in the roughly $14,000 in documented performance work this car carries.
The listing has already drawn eight bids, with the high mark sitting at $18,750 and the auction scheduled to close on August 11. It's the latest in a run of enthusiast-owned project cars to cross Hagerty Marketplace recently, following a low-mile 1998 Corvette Pace Car convertible and a 383-stroker 1989 Chevy S-10 street truck that also drew strong bidder attention. Bidding remains open for anyone looking to add a documented, professionally built ZL1 to the garage.
