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Originally Posted by GrumpyJeff
This could be a Great thread ! would love to see and hear more about this kinda stuff !!!
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So, here's a cool story from Mr. Ron's mouth. As I understand it, he worked on the Camaro line in Norwood in the 69 run. He was running a 63(?) vette at the strips at the time.
One day, he starts seeing 69 Camaro's outfitted with 427's and approaches someone at the plant as he understood that was not a possible engine for the Camaro. Thus, he finds out about the COPO codes to get a 427 in a Camaro. At some point, he goes down to Queen City Chevrolet and orders a 69 COPO Camaro.
Here's the crazy part. He wanted a water temperature gauge under the hood, so he gets one from the GM locomotive division and literally puts it on "his" copo as it is coming down the line. Anyway, this is what he told me. That gauge is still on the car today.
So, the Tin Solder is possibly (probably?) the only 69 COPO Camaro that had the documented original owner partially assemble on the assembly line. Also supportive of the lore we hear about parts "falling onto" cars that were known to be employee cars.