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As far as its competitiveness in the NHRA classes, it's all a matter of what ridiculously low HP rating Chevy gives the engines and NHRA buys without question, just like they did the Mustang and Challenger engines. The lower the rating, the lower the class (classed by lb per HP) or less weight to carry.

 

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Sixty nine people get a race car. GM gets some advertising value out of the COPO name. What does the average person get......nothing. I bought a COPO Chevelle new in '69. They were about the same price as an L78 Chevelle. Ours was $4436.00. That wasn't out of the reach for a lot of us guys back then. You could license them for the street and they were VERY streetable. With nothing more than headers and tuning, these cars would run low 12s. Check the old NHRA stock and super stock records to see how they performed in race form. Supercharged like the new ones, they would be something else. What I liked about the originals was the fact that they were real cars, affordable, low key and pretty much a sleeper. GM pretty well did away with those aspects and really didn't do the COPO name justice. Had GM built a street version, they would have gotten a lot more advertising value out of the name and may have even sold a lot more cars. Right when they started building the newer Z06 427 Corvettes I started telling everyone that GM should build a COPO 427 street Camaro. They could have sold an awful lot more than sixty nine of them.

I agree. The new COPO has nothing to do with streetable, title-able cars. It's not close to a streetable car like a NASCAR Impala isn't. Yes a new street legal COPO-like 427 Camaro would be neat. Just use the Vette Z06 engine.

 

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Prices from Chevy start at $89000, depending on which of 3 engines are selected. To get one from Chevy you have to be one of 69 selected from hundreds of applicants, presumably based on previous drag racing experience and success. So, due to demand being higher than supply there will undoubtedly be some that are marked up and sold immediately like this one. These cars only share a body shell and interior with a "consumer" 2012 Camaro. No VIN or title. Not legal for street use. Engines are race only, not meeting emissions standards. What you get is a ready to race car with roll cage in place, straight axle 9" style rear diff, built trans, etc. IMO just joining Ford and Mopar in the ruinization of NHRA Stock Eliminator (should be Super Stock only) by taking advantage of NHRA's lust for more money, but that's another story.