Good story but sad too. A friend from my area had a brother that bought a 69 Chevelle with a damaged big block engine. They ultimately parted the car. They had always wondered why it had an SS hood with no badging on the car. My friend kept the 4:10 rear and put it in a 69 SS that he restored back in the late 80's. About 7 or 8 years ago, he decided to check the code on the rear end... KQ was the code (COPO only). They had their hands on a COPO Chevelle and let it go. Very few knew back then what these cars were.
Even the original owner of my COPO knew it was rare (he and subsequent owners thought they made about 500 of them) and when it sold between coworkers, they did manage to sell it above average for a SS, but not by much.
An older gent that I know from Pennsylvania parted a 69 Chevelle years ago, that now looking back on is sure that it was a Yenko car.
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