X66 COPO's

[camarojoe]

A very good question that I agree I do not recall ever discussing here. I personally do not know of any non-Yenko COPO X66 cars, and highly doubt that any other dealers were aware of the availability of the 9561 package while the cars were still being built as X66's. As stated, the X66 Yenkos were only produced with the very first batch of 50 cars ordered directly by Don Yenko. By the time anyone else figured out the 427 COPO ordering process, the cars would likely have all been built as X44s or X11s. I think this is one of those "anything is possible" scenarios, but very unlikley any X66 COPO cars were built outside of Yenko's own 50 car order.

[Jeff H]

I thought there was a known X22 COPO that was a non Yenko car.

[camarojoe]

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I thought there was a known X22 COPO that was a non Yenko car.

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There is, and I forgot that one...but to answer the original question, I do not know of any non-Yenko X66 cars that were COPO's. Do you?

[JTH74]

Jeff what did the X22 package consist of?

[Jeff H]

I thought the X22 COPO was just a chrome trim car. I don't know of any X66 cars other than the Yenko cars but it certainly seems possible. What were the earliest ZL1 cars coded as?

[camarojoe]

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What were the earliest ZL1 cars coded as?

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X44.

[Yellow 69 z28]

My current Camaro is a documented X66 COPO sold and raced out of Mac's Chevrolet, Crete Nebraska. This may be the only one identified so far. There are a few threads on this board showing history back to 1969 and a last december interview with Charlie Jacobs (who drove the car for Al MacNamara) at the NHRA Division 5 Legends dinner by a member (fpcopo).

Some of the other threads;

My First Post

Thread on Charlie Jacobs

Clutch Driven Turbo 400

This car or I should say the drivers were hard on engine blocks (and trannys) because the original block, plus a ZL1 engine, and an L88 were all destroyed in explosions during the course of its racing life. According to fpcopo one of the blocks is in a racing museum in the midwest. The clutch driven hydro 400 and the paint scheme where borrowed from Dick Harrel, but never given back!

Al MacNamara, Charlie Jacobs, Jim Hayes, Delmar Star, fpcopo, and many more have contributed countless history, recounts and paper work showing the journey this car has made since 1969. Hopefully one day I will be attending a future SCR (SCR10 or 11 and racing it) and maybe get Al Mac and Chuck Jacobs to attend.

[Belair62]

Very cool...and you won't run into a better guy than old Frank Payne !!

[JTH74]

Very cool, hope you get that monster done soon, what is the deal with the clutch driven TH400?

[Kurt S]

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My current Camaro is a documented X66 COPO sold and raced out of Mac's Chevrolet, Crete Nebraska.

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Rich,
What kind of documentation were you able to find on the car?