Brents 1969 Hugger Orange Copo Found ?

[Carleen]

No 396 in a X44 Car.
Does it still have the 427 Engine?
Congratulations

[brent396]

No 427 yet still diging info.Pete someone ratel can some black inside the fenders ill be carful when i tear it down. Where is the markings located at thanks for the info Brent [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

[Mr70]

Nick Morocco's old Yenko chevelle has &quot;427&quot; grease penciled on the grille valiance as well.

[William]

Once again, the body number has NOTHING to do with production scheduling. It was generated when the dealer order was accepted by Central Office.

Fisher Body released orders [generating the tag] as instructed by Chevrolet Production Control. It is a fundamental production control practice to material assure any order before releasing it. There is no way Chevrolet would have instructed Fisher to release COPO orders for production if it did not have the parts to complete them. Those orders would not be released to Fisher until ALL components were available.

The body bank was a queue to arrange them by option content for line balancing-not a place to store orders that could not be built.

There is wide variation in body number relative to VIN-Van Nuys Camaro assembly was on the same system. A typical production week at Norwood was 4,560 cars. The spread from the highest to the lowest body number for any VIN range is commonly many times that number. There were around 7,000 VINs with 04L/05A tags at Norwood but the body number range is over 47,000.

Another production control practice is to never starve the line. Fisher often released more orders than could be built in any given week. That's why some weeks are missing. ZL-1s #3-#39 all have 02D tags but were built the first two weeks of March.

http://www.camaros.org/assemblyprocess.shtml

[brent396]

Non spoiler car trunk springs the same size. Did you sell you're car as a Copo car. Who certified yours thanks Brent

[COPO_Anders]

I sold mine as a COPO based on the original engine in it. Plus original Special Ducted Hood, untouched firewall, dual exhaust hanger plate in the left rear wheelhousing, X44D80 with different size springs to the original trunklid. And the BE-rearend had a builddate close to the day the car was built.
I really don´t think it would pay off to hire someone to authenticate it since all the guys on this board does it for free !

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[Carleen]

No spoiler in this picture, maybe its better to look at the subframe after the hole for front spoiler.

[Carleen]

From CRG

The COPO 9560/9561 cars started with a SS396 big-block chassis that included:
• Rear Brake Proportioning Valve
• Big Block Heater Core
• Big Block Fuel Line
The price of the COPO 9560/9561 High Performance Units included the following: • Either ZL1 (9560) or L72 (9561) engine
• Dual exhaust (both standard N10 and NC8 chambered have been noted)
• ZL2 cowl induction hood
• Transistorized ignition (9560 only)
• HD (curved-neck) 4-row core 23&quot; radiator (most)
• F62 HD front springs
• G32 HD rear five-leaf springs
• HD version of the 4.10 or 4.56 ratio 8.875-inch 12-bolt rear axle

• G80 positraction
To this was added the following mandatory equipment: • J52 Power Front Disc Brakes
• Either Muncie M21 or M22 4-speeds, or THM400 automatic
• PL5 F70x14 white letter tires on 14x7 wheels (or equivalent substitute option)

[William]

Just to tune this up a bit:

A few COPOs were built with the M20 wide-ratio 4-speed.

Virtually all had 4.10:1 BE axles. One is documented as special ordered with COPO 9511 4.56:1. COPOs built through June '69 do not list positration on their docs as it was initially part of the COPO. On later builds G80 &amp; G84 became required options for $56.90 &amp; $2.15 and included HD cooling.

Only COPOs 9560 &amp; 9561 could be ordered with COPO 9737. It included the 140 mph speedo, 15 x 7 rally wheels, HD front stabilizer bar. Around June '69 the price was increased to include a factory tach.

[elonblock]

Great pic!

Elon