I forgot to share this!

"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390) 12/01/2014 at 11:07 • Filed to: Camaro

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I saw this last month in my old high school's parking lot: The cleanest 60s Camaro I've ever laid my eyes upon! :D

I have no idea who's car it was, but it was just there when I drove past and decided to stop for pics, and gone when I got off work.

Someone who knows Camaros fill me in, what is this beauty?

mazda616 > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 12/01/2014 at 11:09

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Dear Lord, that is gorgeous!

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > mazda616 12/01/2014 at 11:11

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I KNOW! I would have stayed longer to wait for whoever the owner is, but I was already late for work.

ly2v8-Brian > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 12/01/2014 at 11:15

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You are looking at the most basic 69 Camaro. If it's stock (ha! No) it would be a 6 cylinder. It could also be a COPO clone. Most likely is that it is a simple restoration with some sort of Chevy v8.

Soloburrito > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 12/01/2014 at 11:18

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Those wheels are bad and the owner should feel bad.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > ly2v8-Brian 12/01/2014 at 11:22

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What is a COPO clone?

Imirrelephant > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 12/01/2014 at 11:42

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He's a quick article on the original COPO Camaros in Hemmings.

http://www.hemmings.com/hmn/stories/20…

Tuned-Port-Injected-Rage > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 12/01/2014 at 11:43

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Damn, that thing looks clean. I agree with Brian, it looks to be a COPO clone to me.

RoadHead -- Armand > Soloburrito 12/01/2014 at 12:03

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No way! It matches the body (and license plate) perfectly

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Imirrelephant 12/01/2014 at 12:06

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So I saw possibly what could have possibly been the clone of a rare Camaro? :D

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Tuned-Port-Injected-Rage 12/01/2014 at 12:07

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Thats still neat isnt it?

camaroboy68ss > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 12/01/2014 at 12:08

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looks like a very nice 69 COPO clone. COPO stood for Central Office Production Order, it was a system in place at GM for companies to order fleet vehicles like taxis. The big thing though is that COPO cars went around normal red tape at GM mainly for colors and some basic part swaps. A handful of Chevy Dealers (Yenko, Dick Harrell, Nickey...) figured out using this system you could order a Camaro with a 427 big block. Chevy at the time had a mandate that everything below a full size car could not have a motor bigger than 400 ci. COPO was the way around that. The cars were stripped down models (mostly, Yenko would order his actually well optioned) that looked like 6 cyl cars. The only tipoffs would be the cowl induction hood and when wearing the steel wheels they didn't have a trim ring(chevy knee these were going to the strip)

On this car the tip off its a clone is the endura rubber front bumper, if I remember correctly no COPO got one. Also the steel wheels look wrong to me. Also the steering wheel, 99% of non Yenko COPOs got the standard two spoke.

Imirrelephant > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 12/01/2014 at 12:37

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Or much more unlikely, the real thing!

ly2v8-Brian > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 12/01/2014 at 12:40

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Pure awesomeness

ly2v8-Brian > camaroboy68ss 12/01/2014 at 12:45

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That was my reasoning for it to be a clone. But those wheels are quite similar to the correct ones, if not correct. (On phone, can't really make the pic bigger.)

Tuned-Port-Injected-Rage > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 12/01/2014 at 13:08

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Hell yes it is! Any '69 Camaro is interesting, in my opinion.

camaroboy68ss > ly2v8-Brian 12/01/2014 at 13:18

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yes they are close and it would really take a trained eye and in depth knowing of the COPO to spot it. The real deal cars had 14x7 wheels while these look more like a 15 and the back looks like an 8