Ohio COPO Dealers

[70 copo]

1968-70 Does anyone here have a complete list of dealers selling COPO cars during this period?

Thanks!

[William]

I have no idea where anyone would obtain a complete listing of every Ohio Chevrolet dealership that ordered vehicles through the COPO process. Every dealership had access.
What is known comes largely from surviving COPO cars. Many didn't survive, those histories lost.

Some of these were Yenko franchisees, did not order their cars. Dealership names are often truncated; Ed Stinn Chev is sometimes listed as Stinn Chev. Info from the Supercar listing on the site.

Belville Motor Car / Bobb / Bob McDorman / Central / Columbiana / Courtesy / Davison / Earl Evans / Ed Stinn / Ewing / Ferris / Fresch / Frost / Glockner / Hairston / Hopkins Huebner / Hugh White / Jack Maxton / Jack Shaw / Joe O'Brien / Joseph / King / Konner / Lavery / Marv Minneman / Prout / Queen City / Ray Bryant / Rodenfels / Robert Lyle / Sypolt / Tri County / Walters / Wagner / White-Allen

[70 copo]

Thanks!

[JoeC]

You may be able to find some 1969 Newspaper ads showing 427 Camaros and Chevelles for sale in the dealership ads.
A newspaper search of the local papers for the dealerships may turn some up.

[Woj]

FWIW, Lyle Chevrolet in Cuyahoga Falls sold some COPO’s as well. The OO of mine from Lyle recalls there being 4 COPO Chevelles to choose from when he bought his. I believe they also sold one ZL1 Camaro.

[1971ls6]

Merolis in Detroit had 3 ZL1’s

[markjohnson]

I’m pretty sure that any time a Chevrolet dealership in Ohio would order plain ‘69 Camaro’s for dealer stock, COPO’s arrived on the transport!

[William]

Merolis in Detroit had 3 ZL1’s

Merollis had five ZL-1 Camaros #11 #24 #32 #37 #50. All were stolen, engines removed. Likely all were recovered and processed through a salvage auction as GMAC was the legal owner.

#11 is the only survivor; #24 was reported as scrapped in MA 1973. The others showed no registration as of the '80s. Could be one still exists as a race car.

[JoeC]

there was a post about Earl Evans Chevrolet, Painesville OH , having some 1969 427 Camaros and Chevelles

this may have been a 427 Camaro that Dale Evens ran

[bwag]

I worked and raced for Schmidt Chevrolet in Perrysburg ,Ohio. We ordered and sold 2 Copo Camaros , 1 White and 1 Dk Green . The Green one was bought and raced by a dealer employee Tony U, the White one was bought by a friend and then sold fairly soon afterwards.It got passed around and beat to death on the street and was found as a driver with a smoking small block about 15 years ago. It is back together with a big block and wearing black paint around East Toledo. The dealer liked to order cars in with special paint and ordered a few with Cadillac Firemist paint

[GrumpyJeff]

I’m pretty sure that any time a Chevrolet dealership in Ohio would order plain ‘69 Camaro’s for dealer stock, COPO’s arrived on the transport!

Sound’s about rite haha ! Seems every other COPO was sold New in Ohio ?

[69z2x4]

Glockner had ten COPO's. Langs in Xenis sold a few. I do not know how many.

[68l30]

there was a post about Earl Evans Chevrolet, Painesville OH , having some 1969 427 Camaros and Chevelles

this may have been a 427 Camaro that Dale Evens ran

Joe, according to Dale, he remembers this as a dealer trade. I have many pics of this in different paint schemes.

BIG

[ragtop]

BIG could you post some pictures of Dales camaro in different paint schemes. Thanks

[no69x-44]

Mine rolled off the floor from the Norwood, Ohio plant but was sold from Baldwin Motors in New York.

Anyone have any idea how many COPO Camaros were built in 1969? I have no way of confirming or deny this number ... but my back of the envelope math from what I have read, etc over the years seems to point to about 900 +/- Again that is just a guesstimate number on my part. If anyone has more solid information/numbers ... I am all ears and would love to hear it.

[William]

L72 COPO production was buried in the Tailfins & Bowties data. The data was obtained directly from Chevrolet in the ‘80s and reprinted in the book. All of the oft-repeated ’69 Camaro production numbers-3,675 Z11s, 20,302 Z/28s-came from this data.

The data lists 1969 Camaro production by engine size; 230, 250, 327 et cetera. No 427 engine is listed but the figures total 243,085, same as 1969 production. COPO 9560 [ZL1] & 9561 [L72] build records always list L78 for some reason but not Z27 [Camaro SS].

Ergo, both COPO 427 options are included in the L78 totals.

The L48 [300/350] was the standard Camaro SS engine; 22,339 built. Camaro SS optional 396 engines; 13,659 built. Data shows 34,932 Camaro SS produced. Adding L48 and 396 totals, 22,339 + 13,659 = 35,998.

That’s 1,066 more than Camaro SS.

There were 69 COPO 9560 Camaros built; 1,066 – 69 = 997 COPO 9561 cars.

That means the L78 total of 4,889 is inflated. Actual L78 production would be 3,823.

[no69x-44]

L72 COPO production was buried in the Tailfins & Bowties data. The data was obtained directly from Chevrolet in the ‘80s and reprinted in the book. All of the oft-repeated ’69 Camaro production numbers-3,675 Z11s, 20,302 Z/28s-came from this data.

The data lists 1969 Camaro production by engine size; 230, 250, 327 et cetera. No 427 engine is listed but the figures total 243,085, same as 1969 production. COPO 9560 [ZL1] & 9561 [L72] build records always list L78 for some reason but not Z27 [Camaro SS].

Ergo, both COPO 427 options are included in the L78 totals.

The L48 [300/350] was the standard Camaro SS engine; 22,339 built. Camaro SS optional 396 engines; 13,659 built. Data shows 34,932 Camaro SS produced. Adding L48 and 396 totals, 22,339 + 13,659 = 35,998.

That’s 1,066 more than Camaro SS.

There were 69 COPO 9560 Camaros built; 1,066 – 69 = 997 COPO 9561 cars.

That means the L78 total of 4,889 is inflated. Actual L78 production would be 3,823.

Excellent information here. Thank you for the detailed response and the data. I will have to look for “Tailfins and Bowties” for sure.