Well its official...I own a 69 COPO Chevelle!! graemlins/hurray.gif Car is fairly original...or painfully depends on how you look at it. It was obviously raced and has about 19000 miles on the odometer. The car has been in inside storage for many years and so the body is very solid...no panel replacement needed, but some small parts are missing. Car comes with two build sheets and some other documentation and has a CE block(swallowed a valve in 1971). Color is fathom green with a black bench seat and M-22 4-speed. Trans and rear match the POP. Car will be home in two weeks and I'll post pictures then.

ALbert

Sounds like a find! The '69 COPO is one of my favorites. Does this mean that you finally have enough 1969 Chevelles hanging around?

Cam, yu can never have enough 69 Chevelles :D , unfortnatley my 69 vert left yesterday. It was sad seeing go down the road on the trailer never to return graemlins/sad.gif

ALbert

Cam, yu can never have enough 69 Chevelles :D , unfortnatley my 69 vert left yesterday. It was sad seeing go down the road on the trailer never to return graemlins/sad.gif

ALbert

Congrats on the new acquisition graemlins/thumbsup.gif Looking forward to the pics and any additional info on this car!

Hopefully, your convert has gone to a good home. Anyone we might recognize from this board?

I don't think so Bill...He's a Mopar guy from South Jersey graemlins/clonk.gif

ALbert

Glad to see that he's evidently not one of the Mopar crowd that despises every other brand of vehicle!

Nice find and score Al! Hope you can bring some pics with you to the Can-Am show. And you are absolutely right, one can NEVER have enough '69's!I keep looking........

I should be getting the car before the Can Am show and will have pics for all to see.
And no you can never have enough 69's but I have one more to sell graemlins/sad.gif , I'll be posting it soon.

ALbert

Congrats Al. Glad to see you get another Chevelle.

Congrats, Al! Sounds like a cool car! Of course, I might be a bit biased since it's the same color combo as mine! LOL!!

Again, congrats on the new ride, and consider this a personal invite to the Supercar Reunion (http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=UBB2)! graemlins/beers.gif

You filled me in on all the particulars last week in Maryland Al, so congratulations again pal. Sounds like a gem graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Originally posted by alss:
I don't think so Bill...He's a Mopar guy from South Jersey graemlins/clonk.gif

ALbert I bet that means I'll be seeing it around here then smile.gif

Which one ya gonna sell sure would have liked to buy the 60 convert!!!!!!Sean

Cube, already sold the convert!!!, next is the black car.Too many toys and not enough space.I'll need room to restore this car. Leaving tomorrow PM to go and get it, getting excited :D

ALbert

That's right, you can never get enough 69 ;)

Sounds awesome!

ALright, car is home..here are some pics.

ALbert

http://www.chevelles.com/showroom/alss/COPOenginecompartment.JPG

http://www.chevelles.com/showroom/alss/COPOtrimtag.JPG


http://www.chevelles.com/showroom/alss/COPObuildsheet.jpg

Killer Albert! Color me confused, but why does the build sheet read L78? I see the 9566AA which entails the copo order but why does it have a 375hp RPO on it?

because all copos were listed as 375s on the buildsheets

Congrats on the find. You will love driving that thing!!!!! They ride great and haul a$$! graemlins/thumbsup.gif
Peter

In an interview with Jim Mattison in Musclecar Review a few years back, he stated that they didn't even realize that those COPO Chevelles had 427s in them until they actually read the bill of materials. That was the idea, to get it down the line & out the door as just a Chevelle SS396 minus the SS396 emblems. The L78 was just another part of the deception since they are visual clones of the L72 427. No air cleaner decals from the factory either!

NO decals!! thats cool, I like the sleeper effect :D Thanks for the info

ALbert

Hey Albert,
Check out ebasy No. 2483854868, you weill see a fairly decent looking COPO. There are a few anomolies I haven't adressed yet.

The SS in Back will probably take that off
The Kick panels inside, those will stay
The SS Ralley Wheels, I think there was a wheel that was more non descript you see them a ,lot on Camaros

The CD player

Other than that it is a pretty good looking COPO.

I just heard from the 5th owner of the car and he owned it for 20 years, bought it with 36,000 miles on it, and stated unequivicolly that it had the numbers matching427 in it when he bought. Restamps in 1982 were not a big thing, as the car was in it's lows of depreciation and a stamp meant nothing for value. Claims he knew the 2nd owner a guy named Mark English who boiught it with 20,000 miles on it with the same No matching motor, and KQ 4:10 rear end.

I guess you are going to have some fun with that restoration, lots of work to do.

Gongrads on your purchase, can I asked how much you paid??

Al

ALbert,

I've photocopied that article for you, so you'll have it in Niag. Falls.

Just a note about the decals; Roger Gibson had restored a COPO in the early 90's. He spoke with the origianl owner who remembered that the car came with no air cleaner decals. Roger added them anyway, using his " 90% Call " - that being if 90% of the cars came with it, it was likely meant to be there.

He also claims that the COPO cars equipped with a TH400 were HYDRAULICALLY cammed at 410hp. :confused:

Any truth to that? Keep in mind this article is from 1991, but I always found anything I read regarding Roger Gibson well researched.

The automatic COPOs got the same "143" cam that the 4-speed cars got...

Originally posted by Chevy454:
The automatic COPOs got the same "143" cam that the 4-speed cars got... Mr. Clary, would there be any chance of me getting you to email some pictures of the Yenko Chevelle over my way? I'd sure love to see it.

Thanks! graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Shafei10@insightbb.com

YenkoChevelle69: I could, but you'd probably not be too impressed with a primered shell and a pile of parts! Our plan is to have our Nova finished in time for the Supercar Reunion (http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=UBB2), then start on the Chevelle soon after. My goal is to have it for the 2005 fall Pure Stock race in Stanton...

Well that sure sounds like fun. Do you have any pictures of the Chevelle with the Yenko Decals etc still on it? Kind of cool to see what they look like after they are found all these years later in various stages of disrepair.

Unfortunately, "no". It's been apart for a like 15 years, and somewhere in that time it was sanded a bit and then primered...but, thanks to a lead from this site, I'm supposed to be getting a video of the car prior to it being stripped of the majority of it's original parts! graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Wow, now that sounds really cool. graemlins/thumbsup.gif Good luck. BTW, what color was it?

Fathom Green with a dark green vinyl top...as of now, only Yenko known with a non-black vinyl top. Just wish it had green guts...