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You're right about the controversy concerning this being a non-SS car. If my feeble memory is correct, several years ago, when this car was featured in a few magazines, Gibson and Chandler were touting it to be a non-SS and possibly a COPO car based on something Gibson found on the build sheet. I had a lot of interest at the time in this car because we were in the middle of a partial restoration on the Rallye Green car that I had purchased from Carl Dwiggins which I eventually sold to Reggie Jackson. So I called Jim Mattison, who as you know, worked in the COPO office in the late sixties, to see what he thought about the COPO claims for Chandler's car. Jim said he was certain that there weren't any factory-built 427 Nova's and he also felt that all of the Yenko conversion Nova's were definitely SS cars. I never heard of anyone actually seeing the paperwork that would backup Gibson's COPO claim, so the mystery of the flat hood and no SS emblems is, to my knowledge, still unresolved