Baldwin COPO

[Carleen]

You never thought that the Yenko cars had the COPO 9737 and that they had to wait for special parts before they could assemble them. Other dealers who only ordered COPO 9561 went through the process a little faster

[Carleen]

Heavy told Dan it was a COPO

[COPO]

If no cowl induction from factory, then not a COPO and a BE coded rear dated to the car would also be helpful to see. As I mentioned, it was most likely a X22 L-78 equipped car and then had a 427 transplant.

If it was the same orange SS RS car in the Super Car magazine article that Marty wrote, then Motion did the transplant. If shipping records show it was delivered to Baldwin, then good chance it is a BM car, but more history and research is needed.

[GotGrunt]

Originally Posted by COPO

If no cowl induction from factory, then not a COPO and a BE coded rear dated to the car would also be helpful to see. As I mentioned, it was most likely a X22 L-78 equipped car and then had a 427 transplant.

If it was the same orange SS RS car in the Super Car magazine article that Marty wrote, then Motion did the transplant. If shipping records show it was delivered to Baldwin, then good chance it is a BM car, but more history and research is needed.

The article by Marty states that the Motion demo car had factory ZL2 option as well.

IMHO, I agree with you, this car was most likely ordered as an SS L78 and then had a 427 transplant at Brahms Chevrolet in NJ. It doesn’t appear to be the Motion demo or a COPO.

[GotGrunt]

Here is a picture of Carleen’s car when it was still blue. I’m not sure what year it was taken but that appears to be a late 1970s dodge camper next to it.

[GotGrunt]

https://www.yenko.net/forum/showpost...38&postcount=1

[Steve Shauger]

Great detective work and thank you to: COPO, GOTGRUNT, KurtS and the others involved in determining the real pedigree and history!!!. Interesting that the true history of the car had been known and posted on the site in 2008. It seems weird that the owner didn't know or didn't want to know the true history.

[COPO]

Now with everyone showing their cards, it's conclusive it's not a Baldwin car, and most probably an L-78 car from the factory converted to 427 by Brahms Chevrolet in NJ. Also seems highly unlikely it could be the Motion demo car from the auto show given this information and the firewall picture showing no factory piercings for ZL-2 hood referenced in the magazine article.

Can you post some photos showing the lettering you referenced from Heavy's ownership? I know Heavy had a fleet of orange cars, but this one is clearly not the Motion demo car.

Regardless, certainly a very cool and rare 427 dealer car. Seems a bit more digging perhaps could uncover some interesting history.

[Kurt S]

When it was first on ebay back in 2005, the warranty void doc was with it. I've never seen a doc like that, kinda hokey if you ask me. Brahms didn't do that kind of work and why would a dealer write that up? You'd just mark the invoice. And they even had a stamp made up??
The axle was reputedly a BV, then a BM (with no date stamp). Never saw a pic of it.

[COPO]

This thread gets more and more interesting with additional pictures and documents surfacing. It seems more indepth research is needed on this X22 Camaro to understand it's true history.