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Originally Posted by Chuck Norton
Coincidentally, the blue '69 SS/DA pictured on page 22 of Tom Sheehan's post titled "stock and SS Camaros" on this Forum belonged to Jay Payne of Alcohol FC fame. It was an original COPO 9561 that Jay ran in SS/DA for several years. He has described to me the trip to Ohio to pick it up when it was new. He and, I believe, Mike Walker flew to somewhere around Cincinnati, picked up the car, and drove it back to California. When Jay moved on to another class he sold it to Paul Gobbera who continued to race it in Division 7 for a few more years. The last time I heard of the car it was for sale somewhere in Division 2.
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That brings back a lot of memories.
I was parked next to Jay Payne in the staging lanes at Indy in 75, and Jay told me the story of the car, and driving from Ohio.
It still had traction bars on it back then. Jay said Jungle Jim Liberman built the engine for him, and he still used the stock GM aluminum intake, or maybe I just dreamed all this. That is the only COPO that I would bet money on was a real one, because in 75 nobody really cared.
I have seen what I "think" was an original COPO Chevelle that had 396 badges but the window sticker list as a 427/425. This was back in about 70 , and I was too
young to appreciate what it was
Jeff