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Default 1970 454 COPO Camaro?

Were any 1970 454/450 Camaro's ever made through COPO? If not, I wonder why? Seems like it would go down the same route as a 69 427/425.
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One made. Wasn't a COPO or an RPO but was made on the assembly line. More of a engineering special sent to Smokey Yunick.
The 1970 AIM has many pages for the LS6 option, but was cancelled. Note that there weren't any LS6 Corvettes either. Oy Chevelles and a few Montes and El Caminos.
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One made. Wasn't a COPO or an RPO but was made on the assembly line. More of a engineering special sent to Smokey Yunick.
The 1970 AIM has many pages for the LS6 option, but was cancelled. Note that there weren't any LS6 Corvettes either. Oy Chevelles and a few Montes and El Caminos.
Today that car has an LS6 engine. Many unsubstantiated claims have been made about it. When purchased at the auction it was a disassembled body w/o VIN tag. The FMVSS VIN label on the door indicated it was built as a 6 cylinder.

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One made. Wasn't a COPO or an RPO but was made on the assembly line. More of a engineering special sent to Smokey Yunick.
The 1970 AIM has many pages for the LS6 option, but was cancelled. Note that there weren't any LS6 Corvettes either. Oy Chevelles and a few Montes and El Caminos.
LS6 Montes? None ever documented.
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LS6 Montes? None ever documented.
My mistake then. Thought I saw a post where there were two that were made.
Also correct on the 454 Camaro having a 6 cylinder VIN. Some mystery surrounding that one. Anecdotal evidence.
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There are many ways to display this car today. While Yunick had it he built the car in several configurations.

Rumored are LS-6, Small Block with a Cross Ram, COPO Spoiler, etc... .

The car left Chevrolet at Norwood as a base 6 cylinder as part of the assembly pilot production build.

Car then made it's way to Yunick's garage and then decades later was sold at auction as a disassembled tub with the front end loose and no drive train.
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Also was fitted with a JL-8 setup and a pretty cool flat hood cold air setup. Rumor was John Delorean, GM of Chevy at the time would not permit a raised hood cowl induction setup.
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This was always one of my fav 1970 Camaros. Wonder where it wound up?

70 Dick Harrell 454 LS6 Camaro



Although not a GM made car, it was still cool...




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It's part of the Brother's Collection.
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So where is the Yunick car now?
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