Nickey -Yenkos

[JoeC]

Both Jim M. and Don Y. remember the number of COPOs as 500. This 500 may be a real number that Chevy declared as a minimum needed to cover the added engineering and warrantee costs of the COPOs. Don may have intended to order the 500 but as the year transpired he realized the difficulties of moving the full 500 order. As it turned out Burger ordered 50 and other dealers (USA and Canada) began to ordered them as word leaked out so Chevy did not have to hold Don to ordering the 500. Chevy wanted to build at least 50 to make them legal for NHRA anyway. They did this with the TH400 L78 Nova and the ZL1 that Fred Gibb requested but was probably not too worried about warrantee problems on Fred's cars since most would be race cars and the volume was kept low. They knew Don was going to sell his as street cars so Chevy required the 500 minimum to help cover warrantee costs. They did have some problems with warrantees as some of the original owners have said. This is my opinion.