Daytona Yellow 69 Camaro

[JoeC]

that dark colored MP car that looks like a COPO 427 Camaro was discussed a few times over the years, it is believed to be a MP customer car.

here is a post from Marty back when he was doing the Motion book


"In 1970 I photographed a plain

jane (it may have been dark blue or green, no stripes) 1969 427 Camaro (not SS

or RS) with a bench seat, column shift auto trans being transformed into a

Phase III Camaro at Motion. It was a customer-owned car and the owner was Marc

Cohen. Car had 1970 Missouri license plates. It has small Phase III stickers on

it. Rear gearing was 4.56 and Joel also installed a Hone OD. It may have even

been a COPO car that was being upgraded. Joel never did any COPO cars, but this

was a car the owner brought it. I used it to illustrate a Hone installation

in CARS magazine.

Any info about the car, Marc Cohen, etc., would be appreciated.

Many thanks,

Marty "

[Carleen]

There is one in the Supercar registry, Baldwin Chev 9561 124379N620192.
69-69 VE3

[Mr70]

Yep..

[Berger L-72]

Without me saying this is one,correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the only BB X-11 Camaro's COPO's?

[PeteLeathersac]

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Registry Note - Above Page/Column 3 of 9N619942 is mistakenly noted 9560 not 9561.

~ Pete

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[Carleen]

I remember a Black Copo 9561 from Baldwin Chevrolet, (Team Camaro, I think it was) and there was a Silver 9561 (no Endura bumper) here on Yenko.net 5 years ago.
Was this early in the COPO ordering so Baldwin Chevrolet have to Order 10 of them?

[Carleen]

https://www.camaros.net/forums/29-fo...tion-sale.html

It wasint Black. 69-69 and its the 124379N620192

[Tracker1]

Originally Posted by Carleen

https://www.camaros.net/forums/29-fo...tion-sale.html

It wasint Black. 69-69 and its the 124379N620192

I remember that car being for sale. No docs unfortunately, but a solid story. As far as Baldwin being unaware of the COPO program, I always call BS on that. More likely they kept it super quiet at Rosen's request - why would a guy who puts 427s in customer cars for a living want anybody to know about a factory-installed 427 program? He wouldn't.

Tiny dealerships in Canada were getting COPOS and a connected east coast (NEW YORK!) dealer doesn't know about it?? Hahahaha! C'mon.

I hope this yellow car turns out to be something special, sure seems like it might be - best of luck!

[JoeC]

Originally Posted by Tracker1

I always call BS on that. More likely they kept it super quiet at Rosen's request - why would a guy who puts 427s in customer cars for a living want anybody to know about a factory-installed 427 program? He wouldn't.

Tiny dealerships in Canada were getting COPOS and a connected east coast (NEW YORK!) dealer doesn't know about it?? Hahahaha! C'mon.

I don’t see a lot of BS here
it was more difficult to get a COPO 427 then a SS396

Motion and Nickey both advertised their 1967 to 1969 Camaro conversions as
“SS 427 Camaros” and didn’t use the COPO 427s.
They seemed to have used the same plan from 1967 to 1969

Scuncio Chev sold COPO 427s and did 427 conversions

In the Fred Gibb interview 1991, he was asked about the COPO L72 Camaros and he said
“ We sold a few, but we did one or two change overs a week on our own. “

Dick Harrell had COPO 427 cars but also did 427 conversions

Nickey did 2 1969 Z/28 to 427 conversions according to the info on this L88 Z/28
http://www.corvettes-musclecars.com/...yZ28/index.htm

[camarojoe]

Originally Posted by Tracker1

I remember that car being for sale. No docs unfortunately, but a solid story. As far as Baldwin being unaware of the COPO program, I always call BS on that. More likely they kept it super quiet at Rosen's request - why would a guy who puts 427s in customer cars for a living want anybody to know about a factory-installed 427 program? He wouldn't.

Tiny dealerships in Canada were getting COPOS and a connected east coast (NEW YORK!) dealer doesn't know about it?? Hahahaha! C'mon.

I hope this yellow car turns out to be something special, sure seems like it might be - best of luck!

Totally agree with this.