View Full Version : Cool COPO Clone I Saw Last Weekend
rockdogz
06-24-2007, 03:26 PM
Was nicely done... by HRCS in Escondido
http://www.camarorestoration.com/gallery/CnC-6-9-07/DSC05430037
http://www.camarorestoration.com/gallery/CnC-6-9-07/DSC05431038
http://www.camarorestoration.com/gallery/CnC-6-9-07/DSC05432039
http://www.camarorestoration.com/gallery/CnC-6-9-07/DSC05433040
Build up page:
http://www.hotrodscustomstuff.com/copo-camaro-01.html
Mr.VENGEANCE
06-24-2007, 03:43 PM
sick
55chevyman
06-24-2007, 03:49 PM
actually thats is a copo zl1 car i believe
the difference is the aluminum 427 and no yenko strips
rockdogz
06-24-2007, 03:58 PM
actually thats is a copo zl1 car i believe
the difference is the aluminum 427 and no yenko strips
I think you're right thanks
55chevyman
06-24-2007, 04:29 PM
those cars are awesome i would love to have one. though i would love to have any camaro
super clean in the engine bay (of course)
.......nice site RockDogz.....
camcojb
06-24-2007, 05:16 PM
actually thats is a copo zl1 car i believe
the difference is the aluminum 427 and no yenko strips
I see an iron big block unless he painted the block and heads Chevy Orange.
Jody
rockdogz
06-24-2007, 05:26 PM
I see an iron big block unless he painted the block and heads Chevy Orange.
Jody
Yep here's more info on the motor: http://www.hotrodscustomstuff.com/copo-camaro-08.html
I think I would rather have it before they cloned it. I dig COPOs but their allure is how they came about not their show stopping looks. To clone one really does nothing for me since they really aren't anything to look at, aside from the engine of course. Neat car all the same. BTW COPO and Yenko are two different cars. Yenkos typically started out as COPOs but did not have to be. This car is a cloned COPO not a cloned Yenko
rockdogz
06-24-2007, 07:52 PM
I think I would rather have it before they cloned it. I dig COPOs but their allure is how they came about not their show stopping looks. To clone one really does nothing for me since they really aren't anything to look at, aside from the engine of course. Neat car all the same. BTW COPO and Yenko are two different cars. Yenkos typically started out as COPOs but did not have to be. This car is a cloned COPO not a cloned Yenko
I changed my topic title but it didn't seem to take - :( can some admin change it for me?
:nopity:
TonyL
06-24-2007, 08:44 PM
Done
dipren443
06-24-2007, 09:32 PM
I think I would rather have it before they cloned it. I dig COPOs but their allure is how they came about not their show stopping looks. To clone one really does nothing for me since they really aren't anything to look at, aside from the engine of course. Neat car all the same. BTW COPO and Yenko are two different cars. Yenkos typically started out as COPOs but did not have to be. This car is a cloned COPO not a cloned Yenko
It could be either really. For 69, Yenko's (COPO 9561 for the iron block and heads) were COPO's as were ZL1's (COPO 9560). Considering Gibb, Harrell, Berger and other dealers ordered COPO cars (and usually didn't stripe them), it could be a clone of either 9560 or 9561.
SimplyKC
06-25-2007, 11:15 AM
I think I would rather have it before they cloned it. I dig COPOs but their allure is how they came about not their show stopping looks. To clone one really does nothing for me since they really aren't anything to look at, aside from the engine of course. Neat car all the same. BTW COPO and Yenko are two different cars. Yenkos typically started out as COPOs but did not have to be. This car is a cloned COPO not a cloned Yenko
I agree. The COPO cars that came with the dog dish hubcaps are neat because they came with those pretty much as "rolling stock" as GM believed, and were right, that the wheels and tires would be changed out for a racing setup or by one of the aftermarket dealerships for a set of "mags".
To replicate a car in a "plain wrapper" when it really isn't that car seems a bit silly. Heck, you might was well Yenko it out or do a Ballwin-Motion Phase III.
MarkM66
06-25-2007, 11:23 AM
I think they should of tubbed it out, and made a pro-streeter out of it. I hear that is the new trend now.
David Sloan
06-25-2007, 01:24 PM
I think they should of tubbed it out, and made a pro-streeter out of it. I hear that is the new trend now.
LOL!!! LOL!! I luv it!!LOL
I changed my topic title but it didn't seem to take - :( can some admin change it for me?
:nopity:
My bad. I was just shedding some more light on the cars in general. You never know when somone who has never heard of a COPO is reading something. So it's never a dig at the original poster, just a correction for the sake of being right. Thanks for posting the pics.
rockdogz
06-25-2007, 08:44 PM
My bad. I was just shedding some more light on the cars in general. You never know when somone who has never heard of a COPO is reading something. So it's never a dig at the original poster, just a correction for the sake of being right. Thanks for posting the pics.
Trey,
Not at all - you are right. For some reason I was thinking Yenko when I posted this and the car has some kind of Yenko license plate frame I think. I appreciated your correction and wanted to make the title of the post correct. Thanks for helping with that Tony.
:cheers:
trapin
06-26-2007, 03:37 AM
Pretty cool car. But it's missing the orange overspray on the exhaust manifolds.
jeffandre
06-26-2007, 11:25 AM
I saw a blue one at Pleasanton Goodguys a few years back, all stock and restored. The guy was looking for a Camaro when he was young and found an ad for this one in New York. Went to look at it, needed work, owner knew nothing about the car other than it was old and did not run well. I think the guy paid like $500 for it, then started to work on the car. Over time he started having trouble replacing any engine accessories/parts because he assumed he had a 396. As soon as he found it it was the aluminum 427 he changed course and kept the car original. The car was not really any better looking than a regular 69, but the story and that engine did it for me. Before the LS motors came out I used to dream of having an aluminum 427!
rockdogz
06-26-2007, 12:43 PM
I saw a blue one at Pleasanton Goodguys a few years back, all stock and restored. The guy was looking for a Camaro when he was young and found an ad for this one in New York. Went to look at it, needed work, owner knew nothing about the car other than it was old and did not run well. I think the guy paid like $500 for it, then started to work on the car. Over time he started having trouble replacing any engine accessories/parts because he assumed he had a 396. As soon as he found it it was the aluminum 427 he changed course and kept the car original. The car was not really any better looking than a regular 69, but the story and that engine did it for me. Before the LS motors came out I used to dream of having an aluminum 427!
Oh wow, can you imagine... I doubt we'll ever hear stories like that again!
trapin
06-26-2007, 03:34 PM
I saw a blue one at Pleasanton Goodguys a few years back, all stock and restored. The guy was looking for a Camaro when he was young and found an ad for this one in New York. Went to look at it, needed work, owner knew nothing about the car other than it was old and did not run well. I think the guy paid like $500 for it, then started to work on the car. Over time he started having trouble replacing any engine accessories/parts because he assumed he had a 396. As soon as he found it it was the aluminum 427 he changed course and kept the car original. The car was not really any better looking than a regular 69, but the story and that engine did it for me. Before the LS motors came out I used to dream of having an aluminum 427!
I love stories like that. And there are so many of them. My Mom loves to tease my Dad about his '66 Corvette. It was a 4 speed with a 427 and had the factory side pipes on it. He wanted to sell it to buy a boat and my Mom told him he was crazy and that he'd regret it. He sold the thing in 1971 for $2600 and bought some crappy boat that he had nothing but problems with. Today that same car restored would bring over $100,000 at auction.
Whenever we bring it up my Dad has to leave the room. :lmao:
55chevyman
06-26-2007, 04:20 PM
my dads friends has a 63-67 not sure the exact year but its a black on black small block 4 speed car with the hardtop and convertible top. its been sitting under a little metal shed not covered up for years. my dad painted it for him and then he let it sit out side that night and it rained... he still has it and its still siting out there. we have tried to buy it from him numerous times though hes done went crazy. he also has a 57 nomad thats he sent to atlanta to have it dipped. sitting in his garage right now down to the bare metal.
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