Iam looking at a 70 Chevelle LS6 M22, Coupe, Orange exterior and Black interior. Original Buildsheet with the words "SPECIAL" in the Paint box. How many were made? Would this also be a "COPO LS6" ?

You need to holler at Rick Nelson with the LS6 Registry: ricknelson427 @ hotmail.com

Thanks Rob. There are a few of these that are known to exist. They are not COPO's but are simply just special order paint cars. I think there are at least two members here with these cars.
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Can you post a picture of the trim tag? A COPO or special paint car usually has a somthing special about the trim tag. There were many fleet ordered cars or COPO cars that were not high performance cars but could have special paint or non standard RPO items installed. I found some information on special order cars that were built to test the next model year paint colors. These cars would normally be used as GM fleet cars but were somtimes sold through a GM dealer.

I read the same thing. I have seen cars that had the tag paint code blank, or had dashes on it where the paint code was stamped. I even saw a car that the original owner ordered in, in primer, and the dealership painted it for the customer . It was a Camaro, and they painted it " Plum Crazy Purple!?"

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I know of at least 6 of these today.
Is this one you are looking at a Calif. built LS6?

This LS6 Chevelle has Canadian GM Documentation and the original Buildsheet.

Does the Canadian documentation say, one of 231? NO LS 6 were ever built in Canada, but 231 were imported for sale.

Why would it say "one of " ? The Canadian Documentation verifies the vehicle was sold in Canada at a Canadian dealership. The options are listed as equipped and correlates to the original buildsheet. How much more info do you need?

The Canadian documentation that I have does not breakdown beyond how many of a particular model was produced and/or sold in Canada. Our '69 L78 300 Deluxe hardtop is lumped in with all 300 Deluxe V8 hardtops that were built and/or sold in Canada in '69, a total of 2673. No specific L78 breakdown. To my knowledge there are no breakdowns by options yet. If the people in Oshawa went through every single vehicle on the microfilm, then they could come up with these figures. That would be a lot of work without some sort of character recognition programme setup. No reason why it couldn't be done though. I have a copy of the page of microfilm containing the info on our COPO car when I got the information in the later '80s. It's something that they don't hand out anymore because the key codes are also on there for every car. Makes theft very easy.

In regards to the Cowl Tag having "dashes" for the Paint Code - what was the reasoning for this??

I have a 1970 El Camino that was built at the Leeds Plant the third week of January. The Paint Code is "dashed". The original color on the car is Mulsanne Blue - which was a Corvette color for the same year.

Did they use "dashes" because the Assembly Plant was not familiar with the Paint Code for the Corvette?

I actually remeber reading somewhere that you could get Plum Crazy from the factory, if you or your dealer knew how.

I think most of the "special" painted cars received dashes on the trim tag instead of a paint code, I don't believe this to be true of Hugger Orange, I believe was only available on true SS Chevelles.

I have been wrong before though...

Does the Canadian documentation say, one of 231? NO LS 6 were ever built in Canada, but 231 were imported for sale.

I can tell you that my GM of Canada documentation does say that...

The dashes are typically imprinted when the car is painted a color other than the standard ones available for that year. In the case of Hugger Orange, even though it has a code (72), it was not a standard color for 1970 and so dashes will appear on the tags of those cars.