Did Ford have COPO cars?

[John]

I was wondering if Ford did a similar program ....like Chevy COPO cars....

..... If a Ford LTD was ordered with 140 mph speedometer..... like in a police car.... was it a COPO?

.... or was it just an added option? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]

[old5.0]

Ford had (and has) a fleet order system; so did every other manufacturer. But it was never used to get around internal chassis/powertrain restrictions. Not in the 60's, anyway. The situation at Ford was entirely different than the situation at Chevy, thus there was no need for a similar process. When and if the need did arise for a &quot;special&quot; car, it was simply approved and either built on the assembly line, assembled by an outside vendor, or screwed together in the engineering garage, depending on the quantity specified and the level of modification needed.

[Keith Seymore]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: old5.0</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Ford had (and has) a fleet order system; so did every other manufacturer. But it was never used to get around internal chassis/powertrain restrictions. Not in the 60's, anyway. The situation at Ford was entirely different than the situation at Chevy, thus there was no need for a similar process. When and if the need did arise for a &quot;special&quot; car, it was simply approved and either built on the assembly line, assembled by an outside vendor, or screwed together in the engineering garage, depending on the quantity specified and the level of modification needed. </div></div>

Agree.

So the answer to the original question is &quot;yes and no&quot;.

Yes - in the sense that Ford had special cars, but &quot;no&quot; because the &quot;COPO&quot; naming is specific to Chevrolet (the &quot;CO&quot; portion stand for &quot;Central Office&quot;, which is specific to Chevrolet Central Office).

To further expand that thought: Pontiac supported quite a few fleet/taxi low volume production builds right in the engineering garage. Nonetheless it would be incorrect to refer to them as a &quot;COPO&quot; car, for the same reason, even though Pontiac was a GM division.

K