Would this car be considerd a COPO

[Zedder]

I don't believe the car is registered as few have even seen it in the last 20 years. I've tried to buy it from him, but he has no interest in letting it go. It sat on Maurice Carter's show room floor for almost a year with no bites, they finally painted it Blue and it sold to my friend. I have all of the data from it and pics, but I'd have to look at them to see if it has a fleet code or not, I can't remember off hand.

Years ago, I searched all of the Canadian BB PC VINS and this was the only one still registered in Ontario. I did not try any other Provinces.

How do you know yours was "special ordered" for an individual? I assume it's the car that came out of Toronto years ago and went to a dealer in FL?

[Pacecarjeff]

No mine is not that car. That one went to Tampa. 10 Vins from mine.
That is the other Canadian BB they found.

I did also find mine in Toronto, but I bought it from the second owner.
He had said that the original owner worked for GM of Canada.

The Tampa car has a fleet code on it.
No Fleet code and a GM employee - leads me to beleive special order.

[Pacecarjeff]

Weird - Why were there 11 - 396 cars, and only 10 - 327 cars.

Maybe there were suposed to be 10 and 10.
And mine was for an actual person.

Good discussions like this bring results.

Can you find that other BB car and see if it has the fleet code on it?

[FESTIVAL78]

Quick question...no pressure. Why would someone with so much interest in Camaros not "Break" the news that all the small block Canada Cars were 327 rs only cars? I had always been naive enough to think that the knowledge was the most important tool to get to the end of any mystery..1979? I don't get it? Also..Whats the mind set for a person to be sitting on a historically significant car for 20 years and not take the time to "register" it? I think I need to hear these reasons so I can better travel the highways and byways of Camarodome. Help me out here

[Zedder]

I assume you are talking to me??? If the RS story is news to you, you need to do your homework. It has been known for about 15 years by the general Camaro public that are into Pacecars that the Canadian SB cars were RS's. In fact, I think that Donna Crispino wrote about it in her book. As for my car, I was 17 when I bought it in 1979 and didn't know it was anything special...I have had the story on my web site for 7 years...

As for the owner of the BB car - he's owned it for 37 years and couldn't care less about numbers and registries. This is common practice for many original owners of these cars that are not on the Internet often or are just private people who don't care to share their business with the world. I know at least 6 owners of 67 Z's who do not share their info publicly.

[coke69Z11]

This discussion is getting verrrrry interesting. I realize it might be tough for some to consider allowing another class of car into the COPO fold, but Jeff is making some points on his end that seem to outweigh points on the other side. We do have some very knowledgeable members on this site that really need to chime in here, get on this horse and ride it. Giddy-up!

[70 copo]

Well lets see. Chevrolet created the COPO system to get cars built a in a manner that allowed for production processes to be modified by the addition of cars that were engineered to an extent. I think these early IPC's cars were built COPO in 67.

Now the issue for Tom and the SYC is to determine if participation will be permitted, - say at the reunion?

Since Member's rides are already in a section for neat or historically significant cars, these 67 0-1 built COPO IPC's would add flavor and tell somemore of the facinating Chevrolet COPO story, and how Chevrolet used it early on.

Charlie--Can you bring the great #92 to the next reunion? If there ever was an example of a special "reverse engineered" car that is one of them. Chevy put significant effort into that car. Value--Priceless....


Phil