An interesting story...COPO's or?

[Yenkofan]

A car show friend of mine and his father worked at the GM Van Nuys plant for years.
He tells this story and remembers it vividly because it was so unusual.
Sometime in the 1968 model run several Camaro's (in different colors) had to be pushed off the assembly line because they had no motors. He asked "What do you mean we have no motors? because the plant had tons of motors. He was again told "We have no motors". Shortly thereafter several motors arrived from the Tonawanda plant crated individually as opposed to several to a crate. He believes these motors were 427's.
On a Friday the cars and motors were sitting unassembled. He was told that a few people
had to work that weekend. When he came in Monday morning the cars and motors were gone.
They had been assembled over the weekend and
they were sent by some special transport company to Detroit for "testing".
That's all I know.
Gary

[Edited by Yenkofan (06-03-2001 at 10:47 PM).]