[browncopo]

hey, more history on the copo. Grady was right, it was raced most of it's early life. the first owner, Ned Smith ordered the car to race it. He raced on the east coast, even had an englishtown race participant plaque on the console, 1971 I believe. He sold the car to Eli Dobrinoff from Dillsburg Pa. He owned a salvage yard in dillsburg. He raced at York U.S. 30. That's when the original motor was killed. A picture window in the block. He installed a 454 race motor. He then sold the car to Dick Barcellona in Harrisburg Pa without an engine. Dick bought a 427 L88 motor over the counter at Sutliff Chev. in Hbg. He ran the car on the street for a while. A mutual friend of ours talked Dick into going Super Stock racing so one night the front end came off and the motor came out and was disassembled. Thank goodness that's as far as it went. Dicks dad wanted his garage back and that's when I got the car. 1975 I think. I reassembled the car and raced it at york and south mountain in 1976. Toward the end of 1976 I lost reverse gear in the trans so I pulled it and took it to Winters transmissions in york. they said I didn't want to repair it but buy a full competition manual valve body trans so I did. That's when I thought the orig trans went. Evidently, they reused the case. My best time at york was 11.71 @ 117 mph. I raced only one year then did some street racing. I owned it 37 years and tried to maintain it best I could. Cliff