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[camaromb]

I always thought the blue Yenko was a very nicely done car, rear body clip or not. It had its original engine and BE rear. If all that is technically useable is the firewall/roof, etc. then thats all that can be used. I was always such a purist in terms of original metal, but the reality is quite a few of these cars need quite a bit of new metal, better original than repro. Fix what needs to be fixed and document what is done.
Jude, my silver Copo that just sold at Mecum was a nicely done car with canadian docs, original M22, original BE, non original 427, never removed trim tag, "the" original interior, "the" original body with quarters replaced, original floors, original trunk floor, etc. I thought it was a good buy on a no issue car. I never thought the market was over $ 150k on such a car, with only one bidder on my car, the market is not hot for a NOM Copo right now.
I know the owner of the no docs rallye green NOM Copo at Barrett last year thought it never stopped rolling across the stage. I didn't see that one sell, who knows.
Mark

[NovaMob03]

I never thought that a rear body clip constituted rebody status, nor did I realize that the eng/trans was orig to the car, so it probably was a well bought car.
Your Cortez COPO was awesome and personally thought it was easily a 150K car with the orig rear, trans, doc's, great color & restoration...it was a steal imo.
The RG COPO bids seemed to stop as soon as other bidders saw who was bidding on it (R Childress??)& it hammered @ 107 and I think I read somewhere that the resto cost 100K...but who knows, I'm just an outside observer these days.
Does it make sense to restore anything (for resale) these days? If I had untubbed my COPO would it be worth any more or less? Drag strip survivors certainly should hold some significance in the hobby, but it seems that day1 cars are still what the 'investor/collector' wants. Anyway, I feel fortunate to be 'stuck' with a Scuncio car with interesting race history.