Copo Camaros

[copo69]

Originally Posted by Mike Keener

This is a real and rare COPO car that I ran prior to the Team Checkmate days in 1972 & 1973. It was a real 4 speed car with the ultra rare vinyl top option.

I just wish to God I would never have sold it!

Mike, I'm pretty sure your old car is still alive in Ohio. I'm curious if you know what dealer sold that car new. I've got a Garnet Red /Black top Copo and was curious if they had perhaps came from the same dealer as he ordered several cars with the same options including style trim which is on your old car in the picture I have. Style trim wasn't ordered on many Copo's but this dealer seemed to put it on every copo he ordered.

Paul, I don't know of any Copo's which originally came with chambered exhaust but it would have to have been an early car as the chambered was discontinued early in the year. Regular dual exhaust makes more power as it's less restrictive than the chambered.

[RockyJ]

Attention "redman" Bill Floyd ? What was the name of that chevy dealership in downtown cincy ? Central chevrolet?
They had more 69 COPOS than anywhere.About 5 miles from the camaro GM factory.
I personally helped 2 friends buy copos there.They had them lined up about 10 deep. Looked like a fleet of 6 cyl. company cars.lol First friend bought a yellow auto ,extra cost for auto.
2nd friend bought a dark blue 4speed a few days later.
Maintained by the Chevy Shoppe , Middletown Oh.

[Paul Ceasrine]

KD,
Just got the e-mail of the 69' Camaro window sticker/price sheet.
COPO 9561
Dealer B. F. Curry, Central Avenue, Scarsdale, NY
X44........Base price $3575.30..April 9, 1969
PC

[Paul Ceasrine]

copo69,
Thanks on the chambered exhaust info, saw the info on the dealer price list,,Code NC8, chambered exhaust $15.80 as an option..
KD,
I do not claim to be any kind of COPO expert..
But I think the list of the most 69' COPO cars sold;
1) Yenko Chevrolet, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania (near Pittsburg)
2) Berger Chevrolet, Grand Rapids, Michigan
3) Nickey Chevrolet, Chicago, Illinois
4) Baldwin Chevrolet, Baldwin, L.I., New York
5) Fred Gibbs Chevrolet, LaHarpe, Illinois
6) Dana Chevrolet, South Gate, California
7) Scuncio Chevrolet, Greenville, Rhode Island
Paul

[Paul Ceasrine]

KD,,,,,,,,
A hard address to find,,,,,,,,
Fred Gibb Chevrolet
Junction 9, East 94
La Harpe, Illinois 67227
(Western Illinois, 20 minutes away from the Iowa/Missouri border)
Home of the first COPO 9560 ZL-1,,
Somebody probably has the # of COPO 9561 (L-72) cars to come out of there???
Paul

[stefan callender]

Originally Posted by Paul Ceasrine

KD,
Just got the e-mail of the 69' Camaro window sticker/price sheet.
COPO 9561
Dealer B. F. Curry, Central Avenue, Scarsdale, NY
X44........Base price $3575.30..April 9, 1969
PC

Curry Chevrolet, I believe still exists...

[Paul Ceasrine]

Stefan,
B.F. Curry still in business as Honda dealer. Scarsdale, New York, once one of the biggest Chevrolet dealers in the country. Had an awesome showroom, big semi-circle with an all-glass surround. The car lot was loaded back then, at least 40 cars across, and 15 deep. All-Chevy's.
Also, had as nearly as big dealership in Yorktown, New York (northern
Westchester, Route 202.,,A couple of COPO 9561 cars went through
the Scarsdale dealership, not sure on the Yorktown one..
PC

[Bobby Zlatkin]

I special ordered a Nova in '69 from Anthony Abraham Chev. in Miami. Really wanted a Camaro but too cheap to spring the extra bucks (dumb ***). My car came in mid May. I went back to the dealer about a week later as they called 'my license was in'. Saw a white (what looked like a 6 cyl.) Camaro parked where the new cars came in. What caught my attention was that it had the cowl induction hood but looked like a car that shouldn't have that hood. Went over and looked at the window sticker and saw: L72, 427/425. Also remember that it had an M22. Don't remember anything else on sticker but the bottom line $3,600 something. Had all the SS stuff (power discs multi-leaf, 12 bolt), but no SS badging. Looked around and there was also a dark green one there.
Also a 4-speed. Same options, same price. I knew they were something special but I didn't know what. Never had heard of a COPO then.

So I know that Abraham Chev., Miami, FL had a least 2 of them. Just unaffordable to me at that time. I used to go to Miami-Hollywood Speedway every Sat. night, but never saw either car there or ever again.

[Dana Fitzpatrick]

Paul, endura front bumpers were not included in the COPO 9737 package. They were a seperate option, but must have been common on the Berger COPO's. I think that every one I know of came with one.

[Mike Keener]

Copo 69,

I can't remember the dealer but I believe I would know it if I heard it. Run a few by me and let's see.

I do know I was the second owner of the car. It was originally delivered to "Gary Fabian" who lived in the Cleveland area. Was there a dealer named "Fronrath Chevrolet"?

MK